Supported by the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund with contributions from UK film productions, this course takes you on a journey through the art and craft of editing.

Covering the principles, practices and techniques involved in the editing of film and television drama productions, this three-week course consists of the theory of editing drama, setting up the cutting room, and starting a project, before providing you with the opportunity to hone your own practical skills under expert supervision.

Participants will be given the opportunity to edit scenes from well-known broadcast television dramas and also films made by NFTS students in Beaconsfield.

The lead course tutor is BAFTA -winning film editor Richard Cox ACE, who is also Head of Editing at the NFTS, and has worked with RTS and BAFTA –winning writer/director, Sally Wainwright on productions including Gentleman Jack, Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. Additional practicing editors will also tutor over the three-week course.

This practical course covers:

• An overview of TV drama and editing for TV, including the history, differences from factual editing, platforms used and relationships with other departments
• Working with an Edit Assistant
• Assembling both simple and complex scenes in Avid including the paperwork used
• Exporting
• Working with the director
• Fine cutting
• Working with the composer
• Temp tracks and setting the tone of a scene
• The journey from first assembly cut to picture lock
• Working with producers and executive producers
• Reworking scenes
• Cutting ‘next time’ trailers and ‘previously’ trailers
• Practical editing work at Blazing Griffin completing edits based on your learning in the course

This is a ScreenSkills course delivered by NFTS Scotland, with support from Blazing Griffin