
UdemyDean Arnett is an internationally award-winning documentary producer and trainer. This course is the same curriculum he's delivered to broadcasters worldwide—the BBC, ITV, Media Corp, Press Association, Frontline Club—meaning it's tested with professionals working at scale. The course spans the full lifecycle: story development and owning the concept, securing access and pitching, writing proposals and pre-production planning, budgeting and financing (commissioning, self-funding, crowdfunding), and distribution through sales agents or self-release.
The structure reflects real production workflow, not theory. Each step builds on the one before. For aspiring producers struggling to get beyond first ideas, this is the shortcut that condenses what professionals learned over years of actual production. Broadcast standard from the start.
The definitive, broadcast standard, Documentary Development and Production Masterclass from internationally award winning documentary producer and award winning media trainer, Dean Arnett.
This course will take you from the absolute basics of the first ideas, through story development, owning the project, securing access, pitching, proposal writing, story development, pre-production planning, budgeting, the difference between 'good' and 'great' documentaries, funding, commissioning, self-funding, self-production, crowd funding, distribution, sales agents, self releasing.
Don't waste any more time trying to get your documentary course off the ground. Get focussed with this masterclass, the very same course designed and delivered to broadcasters all over the world.
This masterclass is based on the course that Dean delivers all over the world to broadcasters and corporate clients including the BBC, ITV, Media Corp, Press Association, Frontline Club and many others.
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Not the best price we've seen. The lowest we've recorded is $11.99 on 3 Aug.
This is what we recorded in US pricing — not every price this course has ever had, and prices differ by country.