COURSE OVERVIEW
Take your vision mixing career to the next level in live and pre-recorded TV.
There is nothing quite like cutting a live TV show. This unique 12-month Postgraduate Diploma aims to prepare you for a successful future as a vision mixer in live and recorded multi-camera studio television production. It is run in partnership with Sky, the UK’s largest pay-TV broadcaster.
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You will closely collaborate with students on other courses to make TV shows in our state-of-the-art 4K TV studio – equipped with the latest Sony vision mixer plus Viz graphics as used across the industry. Our exercise ‘simulator’ also enables you to practise cutting a variety of material on the Sony mixer ‘as live’. You will work on multiple genres including sport, music and drama and complete a six week placement at Sky where you will train on other industry standard equipment whilst working on current Sky productions.
Vision Mixing for Television Production is a specialism within our Cameras, Sound and Vision Mixing for Television Production Postgraduate Diploma.
Sky guarantees to employ at least one eligible graduating camera operator, sound recordist or vision mixer each year.
You’ll train on sophisticated broadcast vision mixing consoles, and build and realise complex live visual effects to the director’s brief. Using these high-end production tools, vision mixing is like editing - but in real time. Practice cutting, mixing and wiping between cameras, pre-edited clips and other video sources live and learn how to mix a variety of genres from situation comedy to fast paced entertainment and music shows adding visual effects and captioning in real time.
A proven interest in multi-camera production and television entertainment plus a willingness to work as part of a team are essential. We are looking for people who are practically minded and who have a good general education although there are no specific educational requirements for this course.
While many applicants will have a degree from a British or overseas university, we will consider applicants who do not have a degree if they have an impressive portfolio, a creative track record or an alternative qualification.
International students Visa and English language requirements
If you have any questions, please email info@nfts.co.uk
The following item(s) should accompany your online application:
- A description of a television production. Please tell us about a television production that you have been involved with or that you have observed. Please detail some of the technical production challenges which were faced in realising the project and in what ways you may have done things differently or enhanced the production. Include information on what preparation the production team would have needed to undertake. If you have not worked on or been involved in a television production, then please describe how you think a television show would be made. This can be a show of your choice and you should include technical aspects such as how many cameras you think are used, what the sound requirements would be, any technical challenges that may be faced etc. (Approx 500 words).
- A video file or URL (web link) to a YouTube or Vimeo clip that you have mixed or edited yourself or which includes vision mixing or editing which you consider to be good. If you are referencing somebody else’s work please explain why you have chosen that piece.
Applications open 8th January 2025. We are happy to receive applications from 8th January until the midnight of the application deadline date.
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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Student Showcase
Hear from our students specialising in Cameras, Sound and Vision Mixing for Television Production and take a look inside our on-site 4K Television Studio and TV Stage.
Graduate Success
Graduates go on to work as Vision Mixers at Sky Studios, BBC Studioworks, ITV, EMG, Discovery and many others.
Recent credits include...
EastEnders
BBC Studioworks Freelance Vision Mixers Philippa Neal and Hannah Keegan
Graduate Success
Graduates go on to work as Vision Mixers at Sky Studios, BBC Studioworks, ITV, EMG, Discovery and many others.
Recent credits include...
BBC Proms
Vision Mixer Eleanor Utting
Other credits include: Tokyo Olympics, Strictly: It Takes Two, Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Graduate Success
Graduates go on to work as Vision Mixers at Sky Studios, BBC Studioworks, ITV, EMG, Discovery and many others.
Graduates include...
Bhargav Patel
Vision Mixer at Sky Studios
