Upcoming Event

How to shoot award-winning images | 2 Day Intensive with Liam Gilmour ACS | - POSTPONED

Date: Thursday September 17th and Friday September 18th, 2026
Duration: 2 x 8hr days
Cost: From $1295 inc GST
Location: Melbourne Location TBC, Victoria, Australia
Class Size: 18
Suitability: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES for Emerging and Early-Career DP's | Camera Operators and Camera Assistants looking to start shooting | Multi-discipline film makers looking to shoot better images | Early-Career Lighting crew
Catering: Fully Catered
HotShot Qualifier?: Yes

This ShotClass Intensive workshop aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of essential cinematographic techniques and advanced concepts and practices, both in narrative work, and for shooting TVC’s, Music Video and high-end content.

How can this advance your career?

Want to learn how to shoot: effectively, creatively, professionally, expressively and quickly? This Intensive is for you. Take advantage of this opportunity to build your skills with the guidance and expertise demonstrated by instructors with years of real on-set experience and currently working in the industry.

Over the two days, Liam Gilmour ACS will guide you through everything you need to know to get started shooting award winning images. The key to success is a strong knowledge of the fundamentals that you will build on during your career. The course offers plenty of more advanced concepts you can take away and use on your next job. Learning with ShotClass in a realistic set-like workshop makes it clear why this is the best way to win jobs based on your superior skills, application and efficiency.

ShotClass is committed to providing a welcoming experience and access to events for everyone, regardless of your skill level, experience or needs. This includes physical venue access and consideration for people from diverse and marginalised groups as well as people with disabilities. As far as practical, we take into account the special requirements of our participants and providers.



Liam Gilmour ACS

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The intensive is run over 2 x 8 hour days.

Over the 2 days, Liam will take you through shooting a TVC set in a suburban house. This includes:

  • Working from a script and storyboard
  • Making decisions about how to approach the filming on location.
  • Filming cast and food product shots
  • Using an ARRI Alexa 35 or Mini LF and the lens choices available for the look
  • Working on set with your Gaffer and lighting crew.
  • Lighting Equipment Overview – we run through most of the types of lights used in cinematography
  • Natural vs Artificial light and Available light
  • Use of lighting modifiers like diffusion, gels, cutters and negative fill
  • Quality & Characteristics of Light


What’s Included?

  • ARRI professional digital cinema camera kit
  • Top Shelf Cine Lenses
  • Colour Accurate Monitoring
  • Professional Gaffer including their full complement of Pro lighting equipment
  • Daylight Key lighting using 18k HMI
  • Professional Camera Assistant
  • Professional Model, for lighting demonstrations
  • Practical Hands-on opportunities to practice lighting a subject, product and a film set.
  • Tea/Coffee and Lunch is included. (Dietary options)
  • Participants attending both days will receive a ShotClass Certificate of Completion

Are you a HotShot?

ShotClass HotShots offer. Any returning ShotClass event participant is eligible for a special discount on most of our events. If you have previously completed one or more of our events, you are an automatic ‘HotShot’ and can purchase your ticket for less. It’s our way of saying thanks for participating.

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SAVE $100 off your fees.

Our refer-a-friend reward applies for participants who invite along a friend or colleague to this event. It is a win-win, with you and your friend BOTH receiving a $100 discount from your eligible fees. Also available if you have already signed up for this course. Simply click this link and SAVE BIG!

FEES

Book with Confidence. – IF you change your mind or pick up a job and need to cancel up to 2 weeks before the course, you get full a refund, no questions asked.

Prices include GST.

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There is no application process for this course, so ShotClass suggests you make your own appraisal as to whether the course is suitable for you.

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There is no application process for this course, so ShotClass suggests you make your own appraisal as to whether the course is suitable for you.

Remember, for most participants working in the industry, our events are Tax Deductible, so you could end up effectively paying nothing to build your knowledge and gain more work. Check with your Tax Agent or Accountant. Find out more here.

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Instructor

Liam Gilmour ACS

Liam Gilmour ACS

Liam Gilmour ACS is an award winning Australian based Director of Photography and accredited member of the Australian Cinematographers Society. Graduating RMIT University with distinction in 2009 and joining the screen industry shortly after. Liam has lensed feature films as well as television drama projects throughout Australia, he has also shot Second Unit on multiple American feature films.  As a commercial Cinematographer, Liam has worked with almost every major Australian commercial production company and many reputable overseas companies.  He has been fortunate to work in over 30 countries throughout his career and as such brings a wealth of understanding to any project.

He is highly experienced in Virtual Production, with hundreds of hours on volume stages across the globe. In 2024 he completed a UK/Malaysian co-production television series entirely shot at Nant Studios in Melbourne. This included significant development of Unreal Engine backgrounds as well as detailed R&D with Nant Studios in the United States and Post Supervisor Adrian Corsei to facilitate a multi-camera series on their volume stages.

Over the years, Liam’s work has garnered several awards including, Cannes Gold Lions, D&AD Pencils, Clios, Spikes, the ACS Golden Tripod and several ACS Golds. His work has screened at festivals across the globe including: Berlin ‘Berlinale’, Sundance, Clermont Ferrand, Slamdance, Melbourne International Film Festival and Sydney International Film Festival to name a few.

“Gilmour’s cinematography is many things. It is sweet and sad, delicate and powerful, tender and poignant. It beautifully manages to both inspire and to devastate simultaneously.”

Australian Cinematography Magazine (March, 2017)

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