Colour Grading and Finishing

National Film and Television School
Postgraduate PgDip Full-time 1 Year

About this course

Build your creative colour grading skills to make your mark in the film, television and games industry.

This one year diploma gets you Industry ready as you work through the post-production process honing your skills from grading, finishing, through to delivery. You'll leave with a cross-genre show reel of films with your credit on.

With a high employment rate, the NFTS is ready to help launch your career!

On this course, you’ll work with the latest available software and will be taught by current industry artists, technicians and supervisors. You will work on major NFTS film and TV productions, across the genres of fiction, science and natural history, documentary, TV entertainment, and animation, plus the opportunity to collaborate with games.

The course is dedicated to learning and practising the crafts of colour grading and finishing, from conforming right through to delivery. You will learn to colour grade with expert Industry tutors using the latest colour grading suites. You will also learn to finish projects using AVID, as well as having a module in Resolve.

You will graduate from the School having studied the full NFTS post production pipeline, armed with a production-ready show reel as well as bona fide credits on your IMDb page.

Course Facilities:

You will have access to industry-standard facilities, such as calibrated grading suites and Baselight and Resolve software

Course Details

Qualification
Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Beaconsfield
Scheme
Postgraduate