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WWI GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2026
A Creative Global Summer School in Emerging Media, Film & Fashion
This summer, Whistling Woods International (WWI) opens its doors to students from partner universities around the world for an inspiring 10-day learning experience in India's creative capital of Mumbai. Designed as an immersive, hands-on programme, the Summer School offers three exciting specialisations across emerging media, film, and fashion. Each pathway will blend classroom learning with real-world industry exposure and the energy of WWI's campus. All programmes will also include cultural exploration – a weekend of travel in Mumbai's oldest inhabited districts while two programmes will also offer the chance to travel to a township of craftsmen near Mumbai to document and shoot their work.
Who Can Apply?
The Summer School welcomes a mixed cohort of students from our partner universities with education in film, fashion, design, media, communication, and related fields. Each programme includes pre-requisites or recommended backgrounds so students can choose the track best suited to their skills and interests.
Why This Summer School?
This initiative strengthens WWI's commitment to global partnerships while giving students an opportunity to experience India's creative industries firsthand. The programme encourages cultural exchange, shared learning, and international collaboration allowing students to build new skills, new friendships, and new perspectives in one of the world's most dynamic creative ecosystems.
Virtual Production (VP) & Virtual Reality (VR)
This intensive course offers university students an opportunity to explore the rapidly evolving and dynamic world of cutting-edge technologies such as Virtual Production and Virtual Reality
Course Structure:
- First day: foundational theory
- Three intensive days of onset practice to shoot and complete a final short film
- Day five: shift to Virtual Reality (VR) - introduction to 360-degree filmmaking using specialized cameras
- Three-day outstation field trip to capture unique immersive footage
- Final two days: post-production, edit and polish into a finished 360-degree film
Objectives:
- Clearly define Virtual Production (VP) and Virtual Reality (VR), distinguish core differences in technology, workflow, and application
- Analyze and articulate how storytelling principles must be adapted for immersive environments (VP's real-time visualization vs. VR's 360-degree, non-linear perspective)
Fashion Filmmaking
This Fashion Filmmaking course introduces a broad range of techniques for the creation of fashion film; from research and planning to shooting, editing and broadcast. The course combines theory, discussion and practical workshops.
Course Structure:
- 10-day workshop structured across three key units from foundational understanding to hands-on creation
- Evolution, genres, and aesthetics of fashion films
- Visual techniques: cinematography, styling, lighting, guided photo shoots
- Editing, short-form content strategies, and distribution
- Practical shooting sessions, brand-oriented content planning, collaborative production workflows
- Culminating in a completed short fashion film
Objectives: Whether you're hoping to use the skills yourself or to better enable the directing of others, this fashion film making course introduces a broad range of techniques for the creation of fashion film; from research and planning to shooting, editing and broadcast. You'll leave with an understanding of the principles and practicalities of fashion filmmaking, innovative techniques to accomplish them and working in a small crew to create a completed short fashion film.
Fashion Film & India Sojourn
This curated extended Fashion Filmmaking and Textile Exploration course blends the creative processes of fashion film with an immersive understanding of Indian textile traditions with a visit to one of India's oldest textile towns - Yeola
Course Structure:
- 10-day blended programme in two interconnected segments
- First half: core fashion filmmaking skills through studio-based training in storytelling, styling, cinematography, and editing
- Second half: cultural and material understanding through immersive textile exploration in Mumbai and Yeola
- Interact with artisans, study weave structures, examine live swatches, document textile process on site
- Concludes with a showcase combining visual narratives and textile-inspired creative outputs
Objectives: Whether you aim to use these skills as a filmmaker, designer, or creative collaborator, this course equips you with the tools to both conceptualize and execute fashion films with greater cultural and material awareness. By the end of the course, participants will:
- Understand the principles and aesthetic strategies behind fashion filmmaking
- Learn to collaborate within a small production crew to create a visual narrative
- Gain exposure to the cultural and technical aspects of Indian textile traditions
- Engage directly with artisans to see how craft practices influence design
- Compile and present a final showcase that connects storytelling with surface and textile sensibility
What is included in the fees?
- Accommodation on Sharing Basis
- Lectures
- Production Charges
- Professional Services of Emerging Media Trainers
- Unlimited Access to Equipment
- Studio Access
- Field Trips
- Set visits
- Two days of Cultural Immersion activities
- Airport Pick Up and Drop
Fees & Contact Details
Fees for each course:
- Virtual Production + Virtual Reality Class - 1500 pounds
- Fashion Filmmaking + Indian Sojourn - 1500 pounds
- Fashion Filmmaking - 1400 pounds