Assistant Camera (Focus Pulling and Loading)

1 Year Part-time

Main Campus In person

Last Few Places available for 2025 entry

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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 attend the course and in between modules continue their career. 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 AC and trainee, as well as give you an initial understanding and experience of the role of Focus Puller.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

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

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Student Showcase

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Jester (trailer)
2024 graduation film

Director/Co-Writer - Harry Sherriff
Producer - Bernardo Angeletti
Cinematographer - Bart Bazaz
1st AC - Davide Azzalini
2nd AC - Thomas O'Loan

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Dive (trailer)
2023 graduation film

Director/Writer - Will Peppercorn
Producer - Martina Buendia Silva
Cinematographer - Toby Elwes
Focus Puller - Joshua Baylis
2nd AC - Gule Korkmaz

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Killing Boris Johnson (trailer)
2023 graduation film

Director/Writer - Musa Alderson-Clarke
Producer - Solomon Golding
Cinematographer - Jack Hamilton
Focus Puller - Ash Leontyne
2nd AC - Alistair Searles
Loader - Etai Shomri

Killing Boris Johnson was selected for the Cannes Film Festival La Cinef programme. - one of only 14 short fiction films chosen from film schools across the world.

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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