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Female Self Shooters is a practical self-shooting skills training programme for factual TV and documentary supported by the BBC. This course is fully funded.
Female Self Shooters is aimed at all women working as TV Producers or Assistant Producers in unscripted TV or those at producer level, who will be in a position to use the acquired skills after the training, e.g. as 2nd camera operators, shooting taster tapes or directing your own self-shot film.
If self-shooting camera skills are a barrier to your progress, this is the course for you!
Dates: Sunday 30th November to Thursday 4th December 2025. Please ensure you are available for all dates before applying.
Location: Progressive Broadcast Ltd. Glasgow
Cost: The course runs for five days and the tuition fees are fully funded for all attendees.
Closing Date: Monday 3rd November
Applications: Only applications completed on our SurveyMonkey link here will be considered.
Accessibility: If you have any questions around access, or would like to talk about any reasonable adjustments you would like us to make, please get in touch with scotland@nfts.co.uk
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This course, packed with practical exercises, covers:
- Camera and Sound Essentials
- Handheld Shooting
- Shooting Uncontrollable Action and Dialogue
- Shooting a Process
- Interview Essentials
- File Formats & Requirements
- Preparing for a Documentary Edit
- Exporting Footage
You will also have one-to-one feedback from the tutor.
Some experience of shooting factual content and basic knowledge of camera operation and storytelling is desirable.
Please apply using the form here
The form will ask you to upload a copy of your CV.
The closing date is Mon 3rd November 2025.
We are looking for 10 female self-shooters from Scotland. We expect a high demand for places.
