Course description
Producing for VFX
Be part of something exciting! After 15 years of being the leaders in VFX education we’re launching a new producing course.
Producers and their teams lie at the heart of any VFX project - masters of efficiency, they keep the project on-time and in budget. We’ve packed the essentials of production into this new course, for 6 weeks of intensive hands-on training in our studios. We’ll take you on the journey from concept to delivery, to experience each stage of the production pipeline and see how they interlink. We’ll teach you about the industry - scrutinising different VFX pipelines and getting to grips with the roles, lingo and software used. You’ll learn through workshops, practical software sessions and online tutorials, and you'll also complete a final project to demonstrate your ability to manage a VFX project.
We’ve created this course in response to industry demand for trained production staff. We’ve developed this course with successful producers and industry professionals (from the likes of The Mill, Double Negative and Jellyfish Pictures) so it reflects the skills needed in the industry right now.
Like all of our daytime courses (full-time), you’ll also have industry experts delivering guest lectures to really bring the content to life. For our July 2018 intake, Adam McInnes, freelance VFX Supervisor known for his work on The Martian, Sheila Wickens, VFX Supervisor at DNEG TV known for her work on Churchill, Emma Larsson, Bidding Producer, and Jacqui Marchant-Adams, VFX Coordinator at Lipsync Post, joined us to share their experience working in the industry.
Do you work at this organisation and want to update this page?
Is there out-of-date information about your organisation or courses published here? Fill out this form to get in touch with us.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Aged 18 or over, a good understanding of written and spoken English.
Training Course Content
Week 1: Industry and software overview
- Overview of pre-production, production, post-production and VFX
- The VFX pipeline
- VFX Facilities
- 2D, 3D and animation overviews and practical introduction to software
- Managing a show in Excel
Week 2: Pre-production, production and post-production
Pre-production
- Group project: breakdowns, shot lists, project ideas and concepts, bidding
- Shoot preparation: schedule, equipment, call sheets, crew
- Production
- Theory and practical involving a group project shoot
- Produce shots encompassing a 3D asset and composites
- Practical shoot: taking on VFX roles and collecting data for post-production
Post-production
- Technical
- Data ingest from camera online
- Understanding the technical side of all data from the shoot
- File structures
- Editorial
- Group project: producing a rough cut of footage
- Group project: creating VFX shots
- Group project: revising VFX breakdown
- Shotgun
- Introduction
- Tasks and processes with demonstrations
- Using shotgun on a project and how to communicate with artists
- Introduction to Filemaker Pro
- Setting up a show
Week 3: Bidding and scheduling
- Bidding materials and processes
- Scheduling
- Group project: FileMaker Pro - setup and bidding
Week 4: Budgeting and recruitment
- Recruiting for a project
- Group project: budgeting for VFX - creating budgets
- Filemaker Pro: using the app and budgeting/recruitment
- Individual project set
Week 5: VFX facility, editorial and facility visits
- Production and department relationships
- The Dailies process
- Editorial department within a VFX facility
- Daily tasks in production, managing the flow of information
Week 6: Production client side and facility finance and reports
- Working for a production
- Production relationships with facilities
- Dealing with clients, pitching and presenting - role play
- Finance and reporting to clients
- Assessment
Course delivery details
Mode of study: Daytime (full-time) Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm
Why choose Escape Studios
Top 6% of Institutions for Graduate Employability -- by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
First Unreal Authorised Training Center in the UK
Expenses
Tuition fees: £5,645