After School Crash Course:
Film school

The most creative, fun and social
after school acivity around!

Lights, camera, action — make a movie from the ground up.

This is our flagship Crash Course experience: a hands-on filmmaking program where students take on real creative roles and produce something tangible every session. Across 10 weeks, participants build skills, collaborate as a crew, make production technique sketches and finish the term with a completed short film.

Key Details

  • Duration: 90 minutes

  • Frequency: Weekly

  • Group Size: 12-16

  • Age Groups: 10-18yrs

  • Session Output: Single Sketches, Short Film (2-5 minutes)

  • Location: Launceston Conference Centre

  • When: Wednesdays, 4:00pm - 5:30pm

What you’ll learn

    • Week 1: Introduction to Filmmaking Roles & Basic Camera Techniques

    • Week 2: Directing & Acting for Camera (Blocking, Performance, Delivery)

    • Week 3: Sound, Lighting & Basic Cinematography

    • Week 4: Shooting & Editing a Short Dialogue Scene

    • Week 5: Action Sequences & Visual Storytelling

    • Week 6: Genre Exploration (Comedy, Horror, Drama)

    • Week 7: Pre-Production (Casting, Shot Lists, Rehearsals)

    • Week 8: Principal Photography (Filming)

    • Week 9: Editing & Post-Production

    • Week 10: Film Screening & Reflection

What We’ll Make

Shoot-Ready Scripts

From single scenes for production technique sketches through to short films, we have scripts ready to launch us straight into filming and exploring further ideas and the craft of filmmaking.

Meet your directors

Meet your directors ☞

SIMON

STACEY

We’re filmmakers, photographers and content creators with buckets of real-world experience producing for small and big screens. From TV commercials to Web Series and Documentaries, we live & breathe creative development and film production.

We’re also proud parents of neurodiverse kids and advocates for healthy communities for young people.

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The Experience of Creativity

Join the most creative and fun after school activity around!

Hang out with like-minded young filmmakers, performers and creative types every week during the school term.

We'll talk filmmaking and make some films, from production technique sketches through to a completed short film by the end.

After School Crash Course
Film School Edition - 1 Term

10 Week After School Program

$375

with Season One 25% discount*

$500.00
One time
$167.00
For 3 months

✔︎ 10 x 90 minute Filmmaking Workshops

✔︎ 5+ Production Technique Sketches

✔︎ 1 Produced Short Film

✔︎ Unlimited lifetime CCF Membership

*discount only available for
upfront payment option