Editing

Scholarships Available

2 Years Full-time

Main Campus In person

Application deadline 9 May 2024

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Editing

COURSE OVERVIEW

Gain a thorough practical education in editing.

Build your skills as an editor in a professional filmmaking environment. Throughout the course, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of practical projects, including animations, fiction films, documentaries, science and natural history programmes, and commercials - working in your own editing suite.

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"Graduating from the NFTS had an incredible impact on my career – boosting my progression in the industry and giving me access to opportunities.”

Mdhamiri A Nkemi
NFTS graduate

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You will work to Industry standards using high-end facilities. You are encouraged to consider your craft as part of the whole process of film and television production and not merely as the final stage, developing your skills as a narrative and technical editor.

You will collaborate with fellow students in other specialisms on a wide range of projects, putting into practice the skills you will learn throughout the course.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

Throughout the course, you will have your own dedicated editing suite. We have a large number of specially equipped cutting rooms for digital and 16mm film editing. They are supported by viewing and transfer facilities, 16 NLE systems running AVID Media Composer and Adobe Premiere. In addition to individual editing suites, there are multiple suites open to all students.

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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Caterpillar (Sâu Bướm) (Trailer)

2021 graduation film

Director/Writer - Marcus Anthony Thomas

Producer - Johannes Schubert

Editor - Lesley Posso

Caterpillar (Sâu Bướm) was the winner of the Postgraduate Craft Skills, Editing category at Royal Television Society Awards 2022. The film follows a young Vietnamese boy, who is a victim of modern-day slavery. In the aftermath of a failed escape attempt, his relationship with his overseer becomes even more complicated.

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Silence (Trailer)

2022 graduate documentary

Director - Arnas Pigulevicius

Producer - Alfred Deragne

Editor - Osian Pearson

Deep in Lithuania’s Labanoras Forest, a small community of locals is haunted by the past. To survive the war against Soviet oppression, they had to live in silence. Only now can they bear witness to the horrors that happened there.

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Curiosa (Trailer)

2022 graduate animation

Director - Tessa Moult-Milewska

Producer - Sychelle-Kristina Yanda

Editor - Giorgia Zarantonello

Curiosa tells the story of Mary who visits her boyfriend's flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she climbs into his head.

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Breakable (Trailer)

2022 graduation film

Director - B Welby

Producer - Elena Valeri

Editor - Natalia Gozdzik

An avid believer in a self-help community, invites his recently bereaved friend to a healing weekend to help dealing with grief, only to realise he might be the one who needs help.

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Seabird (Trailer)

2021 graduation science and natural history film

Director/Producer/Camera - Conor Ferris

Editor - Zak Lawrence-Earey

Since he was a boy, writer Adam Nicolson has been visiting remote islands in Scotland that were once filled with the sound of seabirds each summer. After witnessing the distressing decline of these colonies first hand, he shares a unique perspective on the resilience of life in the face of catastrophe.

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Shiny Floors (Trailer)

2022 graduate television show

Director - Aenn-Sophie Siebert

Producer - Matthew Bibby

Editor - Jón Atli Guðjónsson

When a primetime reality show host is ousted in a very public scandal, a motley crew of surviving production members must work with a newly promoted producer to rebrand the show whilst battling the comical eccentricities of the television business along the way.

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

The End We Start From

Editor Arttu Salmi

The End We Start From poster

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

Scrapper

Editor Matteo Bini
Assistant Editor Tine Lykke Jensen

Scrapper film poster

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

The Woman In The Wall

Editor Alastair Reid

The Woman In The Wall publicity still

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

Silo

Editor Hazel Baillie

Silo publicity still

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Editor Claire Dodgson

minions poster

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

Heartstopper

Editor Sofie Alonzi

Heartstopper poster

Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

Belfast

Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle

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Graduate Success

Editing graduates have a high rate of employment on feature films, shorts and television programmes. Many new graduates quickly become editors on independent productions or assistant editors on features or TV drama.

Recent credits include...

The Crown S5

Editor Daniel Greenway and Assistant Editor Aurora Vögeli

The Crown Season 5 publicity poster