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We are constantly adding additional short courses for various roles where there is an industry demand. Check back each month to see if any new courses suit your career progression. 

ENTRY LEVEL COURSES

These courses are intended for students who have not worked on a large number of studio movies and network TV shows. Even if you have attended other film schools or have worked on short films or indie features under $1.5M, we still require you to complete these entry level courses to move onto intermediate levels. If you are unsure if this applies to you, feel free to apply to your chosen course and our student support team will be able to advise.

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL COURSES

These courses are intended for students who have either already gained experience working on large films and TV shows or have completed our "Set Ready" course and know which area of specialization they wish to work in.

Location Management

From script breakdown through to identifying what makes a great film location and how to negotiate its use, this intensive course is designed to give you all the knowledge you need to become a valuable member of the location team. 

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Assistant Directing

Seasoned assistant directors will lift the lid on what’s expected of you in different AD roles, while revealing some of the top tricks and tips that they have learned over the course of their careers. Immerse yourself in all aspects of assistant directing from prep to shoot.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Camera Assisting

This course equips camera trainees with the skills for a career as 2nd and 1st ACs. From handling lenses and reports through to organizing a camera truck, you'll be working with industry standard equipment from Alexa's and Red's to wireless follow focuses and other support equip.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Supervising Art Direction

Our highly experienced tutors will cover breaking down a script, budgeting, the relationship between labour and materials, identifying the division of labour in the Art Department and the demands of the other related departments.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Set Decorating

Covering everything from design and dressing processes, reparation, breaking down scripts, dressing lists, where to source props, team members responsibilities all the way through to  standby duties, this course will immerse you in the world of film and TV set decorating.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Set Construction

Ideally suited with those whom have transferable construction skills from other industries, this hands on course will cover preferred materials & movie considerations together with health & safety protocols including a scissor lift training course.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Costume Department

This crash course in the costume department will set you up for both pre-production and standby production where you will learn the nuances of film fittings, budgets, day playing, kit boxes, script breakdowns, costume continuity and on set adjustments.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Make Up Department

Learn from top film & TV artists as they dive into media make up exploring skin tones, bases, powders concealers, eye shapes, eyebrows, lip shapes, facial contouring and beauty make up. We'll run through script breakdowns, continuity, and working with cast. 

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Location Sound Recording

This course provides the background knowledge, theory, and practical skills required to achieve broadcast quality sound for film and television. You'll be working with professional equipment as you learn how to work on the sound team of a major motion picture. 

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Film Electrician

A film set can't run without power and light. In this course you will get to grips with using generators, running cables to the shooting locations, setting up various lights, monitoring electricity usage during shooting & operating lighting consoles.   

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Grip & Rigging

The grip department is responsible for the safety of all rigging on the set. From the lights hanging overhead to the enourmous backdrops and from the cameras in midair to mounting them on cars. This course will cover everything you need to know.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Digital Imaging Technician

The course is designed to fully prepare a new DIT for all their duties including workflow, color management, LUTs, ACES, data management, dailies generation, and many other on-set tasks. We'll also be doing over how to build and charge for your kit. 

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Production Management

Designed to give budding production managers a head start launching their career, this course covers a range of relevant topics across many genres of production, including setting up a shoot, health & safety, budgeting and cost reporting, contracts and legals.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Production Coordinating

Built for those on the junior rung of the production ladder, you'll learn the A-Z of setting up a production office and all the specific duties of the Production Co-Ordinator from the pre production stage through to filming and delivery of post production paperwork.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Production Accounting

Take a deep dive into what it takes to handle all the financial controls of a film and television production including setting up accounts and purchase orders, accurate reporting of finances, and knowledge of signatory guilds and unions.

Duration: 1 Evening a Week For 8 Weeks

Cost: $975

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Intro: Avid Media Composer

This introductory course is designed to get a new users familiar with the nuances of working on Avid systems. From the relationship between media and project files to media storage locations and setting up sequences to adding titles, music, and basic effects.

Duration: 8 Evenings 

Cost: $1,580

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Editing Assistant

This course will train you in the skills, knowledge and diplomacy needed to succeed as an assistant film editor. We'll cover all the secrets of the feature film editing room workflow with the goal of enabling you to step into an Assistant Editor role on films of any budget Size.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $2,280

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Data Management

You’ll learn how to manage data on any shoot successfully – giving you the confidence and organization tools to handle tapeless workflows from the camera through to the edit. You’ll get excellent hands-on experience of the process with multiple camera workflows.

Duration: 1 Day

Cost: $395

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Introduction to VFX

This intense course introduces you to the world of visual effects, how to make them and how they are used in film and television. Working with actual footage we'll cover modelling in Maya and Blender, texturing, rigging and animation, rending and compositing.

Duration: 4 Full Weekends

Cost: $2,280

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Script Supervising

Introducing you to all aspects of digital script supervision this course covers importing scripts directly from Final Draft, capturing & sorting images directly from the video tap, logging timecode with the touch of a button, all the way through to sending out daily reports.

Duration: 3 Day Weekend

Cost: $1,200

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Health Safety Supervisor

This course educates & empowers supervisors to implement safe practices & Covid-19 protection on set. We'll take you through how to work with producers, crew, & unions to ensure the responsibilities of protecting people, locations and equipment are being adhered to. 

Duration: 1 Day

Cost: $495

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Budgeting Movie Magic

This course provides you with a practical understanding of the film budgeting process, including how to use Movie Magic Budgeting. You will prepare an OK based movie-of-the-week budget using information that would typically be available during pre-production.

Duration: 6 Evenings Over 6 Weeks.

Cost: $695

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Scheduling Movie Magic

Beginning with breaking down script elements, you will learn the key drivers of a great schedule built using Movie Magic scheduling software. We will create a production schedule and learn how to manipulate it according to changes in a production. 

Duration: 6 Evenings Over 6 Weeks.

Cost: $695

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ON SET EXPERIENCE

These courses are intended for students who have not worked on a large number of studio movies and network TV shows. Even if you have attended other film schools or have worked on short films or indie features under $1.5M, we still require you to complete these entry level courses to move onto intermediate levels. If you are unsure if this applies to you, feel free to apply to your chosen course and our student support team will be able to advise.

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