Assistant Camera (Focus Pulling and Loading)

1 Year Part-time

Main Campus In person

Application deadline 26 Sep 2024

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Assistant Camera (Focus Pulling and Loading)

COURSE OVERVIEW

Build your skills as a 2nd and 1st Assistant Cameraperson.

This innovative professional Diploma course equips camera trainees with the skills required for a successful career as 2nd and 1st ACs on both film and television drama.

You will not only graduate from the course with the expertise required for AC roles, but also a number of credits and valuable Industry contacts from NFTS, Panavision and Arri.

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Quotation marks

“The course, apart from all the technical knowledge it gave me, helped me to get my first contacts on long-form productions.”

Lluc Mestre Mas
Course graduate

"The course was an amazing experience which allowed me to better understand shooting short films and commercials. It gave me a bedrock of knowledge to know how to work with multiple formats, from Alexa to 35mm and 16mm."

Josh Baylis
2023 Graduate

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The course is structured to allow people active in the film and television industry to work at their own rate and build their skills around outside work. It is classed as part-time (approx. 26 weeks), but involves full-time learning throughout each module.

On completion of the course, you’ll have credits on a varied selection of films and will have worked on multiple formats to give you the foundation to build your skills as a 2nd and 1st AC.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

The NFTS has a range of over 50 film and digital video cameras, including 16mm, 35mm and Alexa Minis which you will have unparalleled access to. There is also a large stock of grip equipment available for a range of shoots.

FUNDING AVAILABLE

Funding available includes a new NFTS and ScreenSkills Scholarship that will pay for your course and help with living expenses – it is open to Women or Non Binary People from a socio-economically challenged background. If you are offered a place on the course, and are eligible, you will be invited to apply.

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Student Showcase

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Who Goes There (trailer)
2020 graduation film

Director - Astrid Thorvaldsen
Producer - Leah Bethany Jones
Cinematographer - Graham Boonzaaier
Assistant Camera - Mark Frendo, Romyn Sharma

Who Goes There was awarded Third Prize in Fiction at the CILECT PRIZE 2021.

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Brutal (trailer)
2022 graduation film

Director/Writer - Jordan Chandler
Producer - Richard Priseman
Cinematographer - Estefania Carpio
Focus Puller - Lluc Mestre Mas
2nd Assistant Camera - Niels Halle

NFTS productions can be shot on location, on one of the School's purpose-built stages, or a combination of these.

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The Leper (trailer)
2022 graduation film

Director - Hugh Mulhern
Producer - Alexander Handschuh
Cinematographer - Andri Haraldsson
Focus Puller - Vaimiti Lebrere

The Leper was selected for the Student Etudes Competition at the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage.

Graduate Success

The skills and contacts our students gain on the course set them up with a sturdy springboard to enter the industry.

Recent credits include...

The Sandman

First Assistant Camera: B Camera Hermes Contreras

The Sandman TV poster

Graduate Success

The skills and contacts our students gain on the course set them up with a sturdy springboard to enter the industry.

Recent credits include...

Saintmaking

First Assistant Camera Davide Scalenghe Migliarini

black and white photos of nuns on film poster

Graduate Success

The skills and contacts our students gain on the course set them up with a sturdy springboard to enter the industry.

Recent credits include...

LILMISSCANDY786

Assistant Camera Catharina Scarpellini Zema

One of 11 Short Films commissioned by BBC and the BFI in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.

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Graduate Success

The skills and contacts our students gain on the course set them up with a sturdy springboard to enter the industry.

Recent credits include...

Bridgerton S3

A-Camera Trainee Lluc Mestre Mas

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