This course encourages you to look at your craft as part of the whole process of film and television production and not merely as the final stage. You will work to Industry standards using high-end facilities, including your own edit suite.
You will collaborate with fellow students in other specialisms on a wide range of projects, and take part in a series of seminars, tutorials, and meetings with industry specialists both in film and television.
The emphasis of this course is on storytelling and the relationship between editor and director. You will learn to apply your craft across genres, creating visual narratives while working with sound, music and, where appropriate, special effects. Workshops with other departments across the NFTS develop concepts of visual storytelling, mise-en-scène, storyboarding, sound design, music and scriptwriting.
In the second year, you will collaborate to make a digital fiction short film, and three graduation films in animation, documentary and fiction.
Aside from your own edit suite, you will have access to a large number of specially equipped cutting rooms for digital and 16mm film editing. These suites are supported by viewing and transfer facilities, 16 NLE systems running AVID Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro.