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Our department is built on enhusiastic and knowledgeable staff, who are experienced and highly-regarded feature film and television producers, directors, designers, graphics and arts professionals.
Department informationAvailable courses
Creative Media - Film and TV
Our courses are for aspiring filmmakers, producers, editors and cinematographers. If you want to work in the film or TV industries, this is the place for you. We have excellent facilities including a TV studio, screening room, Mac suites and industry-standard editing suites, with broadcast-standard software like Adobe Premiere, After Effects, NUKE and Maya.
NextGen - Animation, VFX and Games Design
If you love animation, VFX and games design and enjoy using your imagination, this could be the course for you. This qualification is designed by industry to ensure that you get the skills you need to get a job. We have extensive links with leading companies including Blue Zoo, ILM, Framestore, DNEG, Sony and Creative Assembly.
Creative Media - Film and TV
NextGen - Animation, VFX and Games Design
Creative Media - Film and TV
NextGen - Animation, VFX and Games Design
Creative Media - Film and TV
NextGen - Animation, VFX and Games Design
Creative Media - Film and TV
Our students have gone on to:
Possible careers...
NextGen - Animation, VFX and Games Design
Our students have gone on to apprenticeships with companies including:
or to universities including:
and have worked on films such as:
Possible careers...
At Nescot we encourage our students to think ahead, so that they can choose the right courses to fit them and their future. We also use an innovative online platform called Start, which is a free and comprehensive digital platform, offering students a single starting point to help simplify careers guidance. Students can build a personal profile aimed at guiding them throughout their career. Find out more here.
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Skills you will gain
Practical skills and knowledge of industry practice are at the heart of our courses. You will learn from tutors with substantial experience in the sectors and develop skills including:
- Technical Knowledge
- Working to a brief
- Project management
- Quality Control
- Multitasking, collaboration and teamwork
- Networking and self-promotion
- Freelancing
- Problem solving and flexibility
- Communication
- Technical abilities in a range of contemporary industry software packages
- Programming
- Art-based skills
- Developing your own specialisms
“At the start of the course we learnt how to use the camera and then we started learning more about post-production. There’s a lot of emphasis on working in teams, and you’re expected to become more independent as you go through the course. My favourite project so far was making our music videos, because it was fun and I could also see how much I was improving. Next year I’m going to university, and after that I want to specialise in editing.”
Christos
The course is academically difficult at times, but the teaching is amazing. They’re really supportive and motivating. They’re also experts in what they teach, so they’re telling us from their own experience not just from a textbook like in school. We talk a lot about all the different career paths in our industry, and how to get there – Nescot has even set me up with a mentor, which has made a huge difference to me.
Nia
We spent our first few weeks learning lots of new skills, like how to operate cameras and how to do sound and lighting, and then we started our film projects. The tutors have high expectations of us, but I know I can always ask for help if I need it.
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The teachers know so much about the industry, and they’re really good at explaining complicated things. I did work experience at Reef Entertainment, testing a computer game, and I got to work with professional developers using skills we’d learnt at college. That really inspired me to keep doing the best I can.
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