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Factory Academy: Broadcast & Film Production

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Date
31 Oct 2022
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Accessibility features available for this event: Relaxed Performance Reduced Capacity

Develop essential skills with Manchester's top creative companies and cultural organisations.

This course will also help you gain an accredited qualification: BTEC Introduction to digital media.

The free eight-week programme:

  • Blends classroom training with online learning, industry guest speakers, field trips and self-directed study.
  • Boosts your practical skills and employability.
  • Improves your critical thinking ability and other aspects of personal development.
  • Includes masterclasses delivered by industry professionals from creative organisations
  • Challenges you to complete projects set by key industry figures, based on real-life scenarios.

The course runs from Monday 31 October - Friday 16 December

You’ll learn about media, production, filming, editing and visual effects(VFX) direct from industry professionals. On the course you’ll build a new network of peers and professional contacts, whilst developing the essential skills and experience needed for a career in broadcast digital, and film and TV production.

This course will also help you gain an accredited qualification: BTEC Introduction to digital media.

Anyone living in Greater Manchester, aged 19+ and either currently unemployed, on Universal Credit or earning less than £19,890.

No previous experience is required. All you need is an interest in working behind the scenes in the creative industries.

We are especially keen to hear from those who are underrepresented in our sector. Anyone from Black, Asian and other ethnically diverse communities, as well as the D/deaf, disabled and applicants from low-income households.

To reserve your free place, please register online no later than 30 October.

BTEC Introduction to digital media.

I completed the Broadcast & Film Training Academy and got a BTEC out of it, was selected for a placement and then they invited me back. I’m now working full-time. There was nothing else that I had on my resume that could even get me close to a job like this.

Daniel Goodchild, Technical Media and Coding Trainee at Toasted Productions, Manchester

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