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What This Workshop
Is About
This workshop is for teams and individuals who want to move beyond basics. We will be focusing on camera craft, mastering your settings, controlling light, composing strong shots and capturing professional footage across a range of real‑world scenarios. The workshop has been designed to improve your workflows and create the systems that will allow you to walk on set with mental clarity and the ability to fully embrace your creative edge.
What You'll Leave With
Three Outcomes.
One Day.
Develop your visual storytelling instincts — composition, light and intentional shot design
Build a repeatable on‑set workflow that gives you mental clarity and creative focus every time
Master your camera settings and shoot with full manual confidence across any real‑world scenario
Curriculum
What We Cover
Real‑World Scenarios & Creative Edge
Apply everything across a range of practical shooting scenarios. Work through run‑and‑gun documentary setups, controlled brand shoots and hybrid narrative situations. Leave with a personal workflow document, a shot‑planning template and the creative confidence to walk onto any set and own it.
Camera Mastery: Settings, Codecs & Exposure
Take full control of your camera. Understand how aperture, shutter speed, ISO and frame rate interact to give you the image you actually want. Learn to shoot in log or flat profiles, select the right codec for your deliverable, and build a pre‑shoot checklist that eliminates technical errors before they happen.
Light, Composition & Visual Storytelling
Develop an eye for the frame. Learn how to read and shape natural and artificial light to serve the story, apply compositional principles that make every shot feel intentional, and understand how shot size, angle and movement communicate meaning before a single word is spoken.
On‑Set Workflow & Shooting for the Edit
Learn to think like an editor while you shoot. Build coverage plans that give your edit variety and energy, maintain continuity across setups, create cutaways and b‑roll with purpose, and develop an on‑set system that keeps you moving fast without missing critical shots.
Derwent Stopforth
Founder · Conniston Films
Derwent is the founder of Conniston Films, a premium video production company built around the belief that great video starts with great strategy. With clients including Heineken, BMW, Mercedes, Savanna, Nivea and Johnson’s, he brings real‑world production experience into every masterclass — not theory, not templates, but the exact system he uses on high‑end brand productions.
