We run this · AI in the Camera Department
The AI tools already sitting in the camera and rushes pipeline, and where they fail.
Taught by people who use these tools on paid work. Every tool demonstrated is in a workflow today, every failure demonstrated has happened on a job, and the most useful hour is the one where the tools fall over. No awarding body certifies any of this.
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 working camera crew, and for people about to be.
Camera assistants and trainees
Logging, rushes and metadata are already partly automated on many shows. Knowing what the automation does badly is part of the job.
DoPs and operators
Previs, reference, recces and testing, and the conversation with a producer who has read that AI can replace a recce.
Production and post crew
Anyone who commissions, handles or signs off rushes. The session on NDAs and uploads is aimed at you.
What it covers
Hands-on sessions, one of them deliberately uncomfortable.
Each session puts a tool into a real task rather than a demonstration. The uncomfortable one is deliberate: the tools are run until they fail in front of the room, and what they got wrong goes on a dated list you take away.
Crew rigging lamps on a truss over a stage
Who it is not for
This is not a generative filmmaking course.
- Not a prompt engineering course, and not about making generative video as an end product.
- Not neutral. We use these tools, think several of the claims made for them are untrue, and will say which.
- Open to people aged 18 and over.
What you leave with
A policy in your own words, and the failure list.
What may be uploaded, what must not, who decides and what gets disclosed. And the dated list of what the tools got wrong in front of the room. 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.
