Sound Design for Film and Television

Scholarships Available

2 Years Full-time

Main Campus In person

Application deadline 1 May 2025

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Sound Design for Film and Television

COURSE OVERVIEW

Sound design is the emotional heartbeat of a film, TV show or game. 

A soundtrack has the ability to make you feel scared, to be uplifted, to bring you to tears, to build tension and release joy. At the NFTS, we marry together training in the technical skills of sound design with a passion for telling stories through sound.

Grace Wong in the mix for NFTS graduation film Build Me Up
Quotation marks

"The course is challenging but it was the best thing I did for my career. It gave me that confidence and a space to learn and fail and grow."

Grace Wong
2021 Graduate and Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award Winner

"My experiences at the NFTS have given me so much confidence, not just with the technical skills but also the language skills to speak about sound from a story point of view.”

Louise Burton
2018 Graduate, credits include Bohemian Rhapsody and Moonage Daydream

Content Tabs

At the NFTS, you’ll get to work in industry-standard facilities and learn all aspects of audio post-production, developing the techniques and creative awareness required to work as a professional sound editor, sound designer and dubbing mixer.

You will also have the opportunity to use your skills to tell real stories, collaborating with students including composers, production sound, editors and directors on a range on genres across film, television and games.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

NFTS Sound Editing suites are fully equipped with Apple computers, Protools, key industry plugins, LCR or 5.1 monitoring from PSI, and S1 mix controllers. Our Dubbing Theatres are kitted out with Industry standard Avid S6 and S4 mixing consoles. The studios are Dolby approved, with JBL Monitoring and ProTools Digital Audio Workstations. Our largest Dolby Atmos dubbing theatre is based in the original Anvil recording studio, where many famous scores were recorded, including those for the Hammer Horror films. 

We also have a dedicated Music Recording Studio for recording live music and foley.

Funding Available

The NFTS awards more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK. If you’re successful at gaining a place on the course, you will be contacted by our funding team with details on how to apply for one of these scholarships.

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Student Showcase

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Brutal (trailer)

2022 graduation film

Director/Writer - Jordan Chandler

Producer - Richard Priseman

Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer - Dan Hibbert

Production Sound Mixer - Max Riches

1st Assistant Sound - Zac Dixon

Brutal has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Student Film (Verna Fields Award) at the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards 2022.

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Do Not Feed the Pigeons (trailer)

2021 graduation animation

Director - Antonin Niclass

Producer - Jordi Morera

Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer - Joe De-Vine

Composer - Fabio Amurri

Do Not Feed the Pigeons won the award for the Postgraduate Craft Skills, Sound category at the Royal Television Society Student Awards.

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Build Me Up (trailer)

2021 graduation animation

Director - Steve Lawson

Producer - Emma Hanson

Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer - Grace Wong

Composer - Moritz Wanger

Build Me Up was the seventh consecutive win for NFTS at the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards, winning the Verna Fields Award for Student Filmmakers in 2021.

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

The Devil's Hour Series 2

Supervising Dialogue/ADR Editor Louise Burton
Supervising Sound Editor Payam Hosseinian

The Devil's Hour publicity still

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

Slow Horses Series 4

Sound Re-recording Mixer Martin Jensen

Slow Horses publicity still

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

Back To Black

Sound Design Editor Dayo James

Back to Black profile picture

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

Top Gun: Maverick

Dialogue Editor Simon Chase

Top Gun: Maverick poster

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

Rye Lane

Supervising Sound Editor Maiken Háberg Hansen, Re-recording Mixer Raoul Brand

Rye Lane publicity still

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

Tetris

Sound Effects Editor Robert Turner

Tetris publicity still

Graduate Success

NFTS Sound Design graduates have regularly won and been nominated for BAFTAs, Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Awards, Academy Awards and other prestigious awards. Our students have won the student section of the Los Angeles based Golden Reel Awards for best sound editing for nine consecutive years.

Recent credits include...

Horizon: Forbidden West

Dialogue Editor Louise Burton

Horizon: Forbidden West game cover