New Season

There is a back to school feeling in the air and it’s getting colder, but then again unless you have been away somewhere lovely this hasn’t been much of a summer. However September marks the beginning of a new year, at least an academic one for those at school or collage, and fresh starts and learning something new is always good.

This will also be the last year before tuition fees shoot up. This is likely to be more of a concern to those thinking about taking creative and art subjects where well-paid jobs are few. We hope people will keep creative and do what they love. If that is filmmaking there are lots of short courses out there to learn the basics or perfect a skill.

Here at Signals we are looking forward to some new and exciting media courses in the autumn. One of the first is a course run by Will Wright, a local filmmaker and tutor. Will is excited as has just had his short horror film 'The Ritual' accepted at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in LA and his film will be judged by international director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth). ‘The Ritual’ was shot in Colchester back in 2008 and has taken a couple of years to finish due the addition of a CGI creature. So it sounds like it will be worth looking out for.

New course -

Filmmaking Next Steps – a six session modular course for adults interesting in developing filmmaking skills; from script idea to edit you can choose as many sessions as you like or do them all for a complete filmmaking course. £50 per session. Begins Saturday 10^th September.

More: For more information on these courses and all our others please visit our website www.signals.org.uk or keep an eye out for our course brochure with listings of all our courses and workshops over the next few months.

Booking: You can now book places through http://www.eventbrite.com/org/1306873523 or save the booking fee and book direct with Signals, call 01206 560255 or email lisa@signals.org.uk

We hope you will find a course that would be of interest, but if there is something you would like to know more about, that we haven’t covered, please let us know.