A crewed unit, prepped, shot and wrapped in a week.

You hold a position in your department every day, and you own it.

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Who: 18+, with a department skill set, never yet held the position through a full shoot
Where: Pinewood Studios, plus a location day
Cost: Fully funded. No fee for learners
When: A working week. Dates go to registered people first

Industry support: Rupert Hornstein ACO 2:10Our film

A unit run exactly like a production

A script, a schedule, a daily call sheet, a risk assessment, and HoDs who judge you as they would in paid work: safe, prepared, quick and easy to work with.

A full package: camera, grip, lighting and sound, with stabilised rigs, remote heads and a crane where the script needs them. Simulations also run at 3 Mills Studios and Dragon Studios. What a simulation is

The week

Prep
Kit checks, the recce, the schedule and your department's paperwork
Shoot
You hold your grade on every set-up
Location
A location day, usually
Wrap
Kit returned, checked and logged, wrap paperwork done
Notes
A written assessment and a clear next step

Who it's for

After a course: Camera, lighting, sound or production: your skill set meets a unit
A few paid days: You've been on units, always at the edge. Here you hold a position
Coming back: Carers, people returning after time out, people who want back in

On a simulation

What you leave with

Paperwork: Your own reports, call sheets and the risk assessment you worked to
Assessment: Written, against what a head of department books on
Next step: A placement, a step-up, mentoring or another course

Who should not book this

First-timers: Day One online, then a competency check, before a simulation week.
Anyone wanting to make their own film. The script is the unit's. For your own story: the Story to Screen Lab.
Anyone under 18.

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