1-1 mentoring days (in person)
Maybe you’re a family or brand photographer, and you’d like to start offering your clients beautiful evocative short films.
Maybe you’ve had a camera just gathering dust in the corner, and now’s the time to really get to grips with all those dials, and to start taking photographs of your craft to show people your work.
Your Place Or Mine?
If you need help with your filmmaking or photography, this day session can take place either at a space in Hebden Bridge and we give you a lovely Yorkshire welcome, or I can travel to you so we can look at your space and place together*.
Pick a date, and then make a booking from the film or photography buttons further down the page.
New dates for 2024/2025
13th December 2024
23rd January 2025
12th February 2025
*If I'm travelling to you, there may be additional travel/accommodation costs
1-1 FILMMAKING DAY
£525
I will gently lead you from taking stills into creating beautiful keepsake films using the gear you already have.
This day is for anyone who is already taking phots in manual, but would like to explore film
I cover:
Stabilisation and Focussing
How To Create Movement Within Your Shots
How Music & Audio Can Elevate Your Films
Using Natural Light to Create an Emotional Connection
Developing Your Style and Creating Beautiful Slices of Life in Motion
Introduction to Premiere Pro & Editing Techniques
(you will also receive access to over 4hrs of video editing tutorials after our time together)
3 month mentoring
If you would like to work together for a longer period of time, I am now offering a 3 month mentoring programme over Zoom. With gentle accountability, you will be creating project work each month, and a final film. You will also receive 3 workbooks which contain creative prompts, technical lessons and editing tutorials. If you’d like to chat, just email me here.
Meg Lovell came to me to start her journey with filmmaking for a day’s 1-1, to add these slices of life in motion to her brand clients. I’m so happy to say that she is now up and running, and I’m excited to share her own promo film Catching The Sparks.
“I was astonished at the progress I made in just one day. Sarah is a lovely teacher - the pace always felt gentle, her approach warm and kind, but she managed to cover so much ground and support me so fully that I was amazed by the quality of the film I had created by the end of the session. If you are looking to make an investment to transform your film-making abilities, I cannot recommend Sarah’s 1-1 highly enough.”
1-1 photography day
£525
For me, it’s all about you being in charge of your camera (rather than the other way round), feeling a lot more confident about the way you are shooting, and having fun developing your style.
I cover:
Understanding Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO
Seeing and using natural light and how it creates a feeling in your images
Developing your style as a photographer through practical exercises
Composition
Introduction to Lightroom
As with my filmmaking sessions, I can travel to you (depending on your location, there may be additional travel and accommodation costs). I travelled to the west coast of Scotland to help Gill with her photography. She wanted to expand the shots she had been taking, and to use her photographs to document her business. After trying to get to grips with her camera and teaching herself, she decided that a 1-1 session was the way forward. I love these sessions as we can really explore the light in your space. Just a few photos Gill has taken since our time together.
“I fumbled along teaching myself, but not being technically minded, it was frustrating at times. I invited Sarah to come and spend a day with me. Everything changed. Sarah not only brought light, she found light. The day was a day of magical discovery for me, in the capable hands and gentle guidance of Sarah. She opened my eyes and lead me through doors of possibility. My camera is now never far from my hand.”