Courses
Courses, by department.
Taught on working equipment by practitioners who are on units now, in rooms small enough that everybody handles the kit. We run this means we deliver it ourselves. Somebody else runs this means the page points you at who does.
The list runs across the production pipeline, not only the departments we teach. Where a craft is held by another organisation, saying so is more useful to you than inventing a course.
Department
Camera
Camera Department
We run this. For would-be camera trainees and 2nd ACs, and working trainees not yet trusted with the mag, the slate or the report. Pinewood.
Shooting on 35mm
We run this, as do GBCT and the NFTS. For camera crew who have never loaded film, and DoPs deciding whether to shoot on it. Pinewood.
AI in the Camera Department
We run this. For working camera crew, DoPs and anyone who signs off rushes. Pinewood.
Gimbal and stabilisation rigs
We run this on our own rigs, for working operators. Steadicam is somebody else’s: Tiffen, CVP and Optical Support are on the module page. Pinewood or your floor.
Department
Lighting and electrical
Lighting and Electrical
We run this, and signpost the apprenticeship that is the recognised route. For people who want to be a spark, and electricians crossing into film. Liverpool.
LED and virtual production: who runs it
We do not run a virtual production course. Mo-Sys Academy and MetFilm School do; both are on the refresher page.
Department
Grip
Grip: who runs it
We do not run a grip course. Grip has a recognised diploma behind it; the page points at the qualification, the branch and the funders.
Department
Sound
Production Sound
We run this. For people who listen: musicians, live and radio sound, and crew crossing over. Pinewood.
Department
Production
Department
Story and development
Story to Screen Intensive
We run this. For writers who start things and do not finish them, and crew who want to originate their own work. Part time, Liverpool, with remote attendance.
Dolly training, group watching the move
Department
Art department, costume, hair and make-up
The design departments: who runs it
We do not run standalone courses here. These departments work inside our production simulations and camera tests, which is where continuity, breakdown and how a fabric or a finish reads on the format are actually learned. Ask about a placement or a test day.
What the grades are
Standby art, set dec, the workshop trades, costume standby and breakdown, hair and make-up standby and design — each with its own route in. Careers A–Z has the role records.
Department
Editorial, post and VFX
Editorial and post workflows
Taught as part of the AI in production strand and inside simulations: media management, the loop from rushes back to the floor, and what the cutting room actually needs from a shooting day.
VFX and what the floor owes it
On-set data, reference, tracking markers and the conversations that decide whether a shot is achievable. Run through test days and simulations rather than as a course of its own.
Virtual production: who runs it
We do not run a virtual production course. We do run test days on volumes and tracking. The refresher page names the academies that teach it.
Department
AI and new technology
AI in the Camera Department
We run this. For working camera crew, cinematographers and anyone who signs off rushes. Pinewood.
AI in production, by department
What is being used where, what the unions and commissioners have published, a dated register of tools, and the line we will not cross. Free to read.
Every department
The unit
Set Ready
We run this. For people who have never been on a set. Look at CrewHQ, named on the page, before you book.
Production Simulation Week
We run this. For crew with a department skill set who have never held the position through a full shooting week, and people coming back after time out. Pinewood.
Refresher modules
We run most of these. For working crew when a format, a workflow or a piece of kit has moved under them. Pinewood or your facility.
Apply
Pick a course, or tell us where you are and we will pick one with you.
A few lines on what you have done and what you want to do, read by somebody who works in that department. If the right answer is somebody else’s course we will say so.
