NFTS & Sky partner on new Digital Content course
The National Film and Television School has partnered with Sky to deliver a new 12 month diploma course on Digital Content & Formats.
Starting in September 2014, the course will take place both at the NFTS and Sky with students taught by leading industry tutors responsible for some of the UK’s most cutting edge multi-platform projects including Got to Dance, Million Pound Drop, The Voice, The X Factor, Misfits and Embarrassing Bodies.
The course will look at how to build and engage audiences around films, television programmes and formats. Students will create standalone digital projects and also work alongside students from Documentary, Comedy and Television Entertainment to create extensions to linear television programmes. Sky is committed to awarding a paid contract to one of the graduates from this new course.
Nik Powell, NFTS Director, says the course has been developed to meet an industry need: “Sky is a key partner for the NFTS and has played a pivotal role for almost 20 years. We’re launching this course together in recognition that the film and television industry needs people who have ‘interactive’ and ‘new media’ skills in order to maximise the potential of their films and television programmes and formats across platforms.”
Emma Lloyd, Director of Corporate Business Development at Sky: "At Sky we understand the value of building skills and nurturing talent and are pleased to be continuing our longstanding partnership with the NFTS through our support for this new course.”
“We look forward to sharing the passion and expertise of Sky’s own people with students and ensuring that anyone attending this course leaves with a deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in TV's rapidly changing digital ecosystem. This promises to be a fantastic opportunity for emerging talent in this space."
In February 2014 Sky will announce details of scholarships that will be available for this course as part of the new Sky Academy, a series of initiatives to inspire young people and support emerging talent, creating opportunities for 1 million young people by 2020. For more information, go to www.sky.com/academy.
Sky is also the industry partner on the NFTS Broadcast Production diploma course that launched in January 2013. This course provides training for vision mixers, sound, lighting and camera specialists, some of the highly sought after television craft skills. The broadcaster has recently awarded six of the students on the course paid contracts, despite being originally committed to provide only one contract to a graduate from this Broadcast Production course.
For more information and to apply for this course go to the NFTS website www.nfts.co.uk
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Media enquiries: Petra Coveney at the NFTS pcoveney@nfts.co.uk, Tel: 07590831966
Notes to Editors
The course advisory board includes:
- Matt Locke - Storythings
