Viva Brighton Issue #69 November 2018

MY SPACE
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Brighton Film School
Cath Pick, Head of Second Year
“It’s a good time in the industry,” says Cath Pick,
Head of Second Year at Brighton Film School.
“There are more and more openings. A good
percentage of our recent graduates are already
working for local production companies, one
has been given an internship at the BBC, and
another one at Warner Brothers.”
Cath’s job – with the rest of her team – is to
prepare budding film makers for a career in the
film and television industry. “There are three
distinct areas you can go into,” she explains.
“There’s editorial or creative, which is writing,
directing or producing; technical, which includes
camera and sound and editing, and then there’s
organisational, so production managing, line
production. But increasingly students need to
have a working knowledge across all three of
those areas to hit the ground running.”
All students begin by studying the fundamentals
of camera work, editing, sound and lighting,
using industry-standard equipment and software.
Across the two sites – one on London Road, the
other off Ditchling Road – the school has an
editing suite, theatres set up for screenings, a set
and a full range of cameras – including Super 8
and 16mm film cameras. “I think our technical
staff would very much like everyone to use film,”
Cath says. “Some of the students have shot on
Super 8 and some third years are shooting on
16mm at the moment. The cameras are beautiful
machines, and you can shoot on film and then
transfer it to digital for editing purposes.
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