Multi-Camera Directing and Vision Mixing for TV Production

Entry requirements

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.

Months of entry

January

Course content

Take your multi-camera directing and 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 MA course aims to prepare you for a successful future as a multi-camera director or vision mixer in live and recorded multi-camera studio television production.

The course is run in partnership with Sky, the UK’s largest pay-TV broadcaster, where you'll complete a work placement as part of the course.

Initially the course will focus on Vision Mixing training elements and once you have learnt the fundamental principles of Vision Mixing and gained some practical skills, the training will widen to include core elements of Multi-Camera Directing.

You will closely collaborate with students on other courses to make TV shows in our state-of-the-art 4K TV studio. Our exercise ‘simulator’ also enables you to practise cutting a variety of material on our Sony vision mixer ‘as live’. You will work on multiple genres including sport, music and drama, and you will undertake a six-week placement at Sky where you will train on other industry standard equipment whilst working on current Sky productions.

If you enjoy working as part of a team and find the idea of “live” television exhilarating, then this is the course for you.

Multi Camera Directing and Vision Mixing for TV Production is a specialism within our Cameras, Sound, Multi-Camera Directing and Vision Mixing for TV Production MA.

Sky guarantees to employ at least one graduating camera operator, sound recordist or vision mixer each year.

What You Will Study

During the course you will:

• Learn to use a new Sony broadcast vision mixing console, allowing you to create and realise complex live visual effects to the Director’s brief.
• Using high-end production tools, vision mixing is like video editing - but in real time.
• You will practice cutting, mixing and wiping between cameras, pre-edited clips and other video sources live.
• You will learn how to vision mix across a variety of genres from situation comedy to fast paced entertainment and music shows, adding visual effects and captioning in real time.

You will then add Multi Camera Directing skills to your learning as the course develops.

• Understanding the key elements of planning a production from concept to transmission/delivery.
• The core skills of camera operators: positioning, framing and focus.
• Understand the principles of Multi Camera TV production, including the correct use of TV grammar.
• Learn to tell a story in pictures, live and in the moment.
• Working with music to interpret and develop shots, moving with artists or in sympathy with music to create dynamic and exciting television.
• Marking up a camera script, and key Script Supervisor roles.
• Multi-Camera Directing (across various genres including sport, news, chat shows and music).
• The challenge of Multi-Camera Directing whilst Vision Mixing.

Information for international students

This course is open to UK/EU/International students.

Fees and funding

Please visit our website for fees information. All production costs are included in the course fees, including the use of School facilities and equipment.

The NFTS is committed to ensuring it is open to students of genuine ability, no matter what their background or financial circumstances, which is why we award more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK.