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Online courses.
Start with Day One. Then take your department's course. After that, a short competency check with us, then a practical on our unit. The FIF Certificate comes only from an in-person practical with us. How it works.
How learning with FIF works
Academy course. Step 1 of the FIF route: lessons, checks and a marked task that give you a completion record. Finish it and you can book the competency check.
- Learn onlineFree films, paths and Academy coursesYou are here
- Competency checkA short check with us, online or in person
- In-person practicalOn our unit at Pinewood or 3 Mills
- FIF CertificateFrom the practical only
The FIF Certificate comes only from the practical. How it works · Book a competency check
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Step 1 · Learn online · All departmentsDay One: ready for setSix lessons, from never having been on a set to knowing where to stand, what the calls mean, how to read a call sheet and how to keep yourself and others safe.Pilot · demoAbout 3 to 4 hours · 6 lessonsStart the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · CameraCamera department FoundationEight lessons in the order a camera trainee meets the job: safety, who's who, prep, kit care, slates and camera reports, media, lenses and marks.Pilot · demoAbout 6 to 8 hours · 8 lessonsStart the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · Virtual productionVP Day One: ready for the volumeSix lessons on LED volumes and in-camera VFX: the words, who's who on the stage, how a VP day runs, safety at the wall, and UK stages and routes in.Pilot · demoAbout 2.5 to 3 hours · 6 lessonsStart the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · Virtual productionVirtual production FoundationSix lessons in the order a VP crew meets the work: planning, plates and worlds, camera and tracking, colour and light on LED, Unreal for film-makers, and the roles. Each has a practice task.Pilot · demoAbout 6 to 8 hours · 6 lessonsStart the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · AI toolsAI Day One: using AI on a working unitSix lessons on AI in production: what the tools are and aren't, the words you'll hear, where AI sits on a unit, consent for face, voice and body, copyright and labelling, and confidential data.Pilot · demoAbout 2.5 hours · 6 lessonsStart the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · AI toolsAI tools FoundationRules before tools, then AI in pre-production, the edit, VFX and clean-up, sound, generative video, and rights and disclosure. Optional practice task: one real clip through transcript search, clean-up and a mask, logged and labelled.Pilot · demoAbout 6 to 8 hours · 6 lessonsStart the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · Production and assistant directorsProduction office and AD FoundationHow a production runs from office to floor: call sheets and schedules, breakdowns, paperwork and releases, locations, risk assessments and insurance in a UK frame, and floor running on the radio.Register interestAbout 6 to 8 hours · 6 lessonsSee the course
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Step 1 · Learn online · Writing and developmentStory to Screen FoundationThe story track for the Story to Screen Lab, with Screen Sisters CIC: idea, logline, one-page treatment, pitch, and the producing basics that get a short made.Register interestAbout 6 to 8 hours · 6 lessons · In partnership with Screen Sisters CICSee the course