We run this · Set Ready
A live call sheet, with an assistant director and a floor crew running it.
Where to stand, when not to speak, who owns the thing you just picked up, and how a radio works. If you have never been on a set, this is the course that translates it. Before you book, read the free national alternative signposted below.
The detail
| Detail | This course |
|---|---|
| Where | the Ken Adam Building, Pinewood Studios |
| Entry requirements | Aged 18 or over. Nothing else. |
Who it is for
For people with no set experience at all, and for people who have some and got it wrong.
People trying to get a first day
Runner, trainee, floor assistant or daily. Nobody explains the rules because everybody assumes you know them.
People changing career, or from adjacent trades
Hospitality, logistics, construction, the forces, riggers, drivers, medics. You know your trade. You need the set around it.
People who have done a student shoot
A student unit and a professional unit share vocabulary and almost nothing else.
What it covers
Sessions on the floor, then one live run with a camera turning over.
Sessions on the floor: where to stand, when not to speak, who owns the thing you just picked up, how a radio works and what a call sheet is telling you. Then one live run with a camera turning over and an assistant director running the floor.
Who it is not for
Do not book this if you are already on units.
- Not for anyone with a professional set credit. Go to a department course, or to Production Simulation Week.
- Not a camera course.
- Open to people aged 18 and over.
Dolly training, group watching the move
Somebody else runs these
There is a free national route in, and it is paid. Look at it first.
CrewHQ (opens in a new tab) · Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
The CrewHQ Trainee Programme, as CrewHQ publishes it: up to twelve months, two weeks’ initial training and then paid placements across production office, finance, construction, costume, camera, locations and VFX. Open to complete new entrants, 18 or over, with no qualifications and no industry experience required. Free to participants. If you cannot pay for training, start here.
ScreenSkills (opens in a new tab) · bursaries
A competitive cash grant toward training, travel, equipment, software and accommodation, UK-wide, 18 and over. It can pay for somebody else’s course as well as ours.
What you leave with
Written feedback from the practitioners who watched the live run.
What you did well, the one thing to fix, and which craft you seemed suited to. Plus a Crew Card entry and a certificate, each naming only what you were seen to do.
Apply
Register your interest.
Tell us which course and we come back with dates, cost and what support may be possible. If you have never been on a unit, say so.
