Courses

The Brighton Film School works very closely with the Education Committee of The Moving Image Society (The British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society), of which the Course Lecturer, Franz von Habsburg FBKS, is a Fellow, and your fees include your first year's student membership of this, the film industry's technical guild.  We also work closely with the Directors' Guild of Great Britain and the Guild of British Camera Technicians so that you will have the very best of industry contacts.

Picture - BAFTA Member Franz (standing right) and Hon Directing Tutor Maurice Stevens (2nd from right) with an Arriflex 16BL (kindly donated by Arri (GB) Ltd) and some advanced students on a location shoot.  Avinash - looking through the viewfinder - is now a successful DP in Mumbai, where he is also our representative in India.

All of our courses are designed to meet Industry needs.  We also have a links page to other film related sites.

There are four courses in Motion Picture Production held during the year:

Our Flagship Course is a three term (one year) part-time day course - tuition is held on Fridays from 10am til late, and students are encouraged to attend the studio at other times to practice with the various equipment.

Other Courses are:

A three month part-time evening course - held on Tuesdays and Thursdays (both evenings) from 7-10pm

A three month day part-time course - held on Wednesdays from 10am until 6pm

A Three Week Full-Time Summer School held every August

Dates and prices are shown at the head of the Application Form

The following courses are also available:

Hi Def  HD is now moving very quickly, so we also offer crash one-day courses in using the Sony Z1 and Avid HD Pro.

FILM AND STAGE MAKEUP AND HAIR COURSES

These are run by Judy Neame (former BBC Makeup Chief), and principal of Centre Stage Makeup Studio.  Centre Stage opened in 1992 and since then many students have succeeded in the industry.

During training, students gain work experience on various student projects before developing this into professional work for film,  TV, photography and the theatre.  Whilst on the course, the students build up their CV and portfolio, and, of course, also have    the opportunity to work on Brighton Film School students' projects.

Makeup and Hair courses include:

CHARACTER AND PERIOD - period, modern, catwalk.

SPECIAL FX - life casts, sculpting and structuring a prosthetic piece, injuries, camouflage.

HAIR - dressing period hair, modern hair styling, hair up, wigging, cutting, hair pieces, rollering, setting, facial hair application.

For full details contact Judy at neame@centrestage.eclipse.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 1825 890080 or 07803 179292.