Georgina Kiedrowski, Self-Shooting Producer (The Island, Race Across the World), and Nicola Daley, Director of Photography, ACS (The Letdown, Harlots) will share their knowledge and experiences of working in the camera department on documentaries, dramas and factual entertainment for shows such as The Island with Bear Grylls, Race Across the World, Harlots and The Letdown.
Editors Emma Lysaght and Matthew Gray spoke about how they had each worked with distinguished programme-makers, Louis Theroux and Shane Meadows, respectively.
Lysaght, a documentary specialist, worked on Louis Theroux’s Altered States: Choosing Death, in which terminally ill people prepared to take their own lives.
Directors of photography Sara Deane and Mike Robinson discussed training and single camera shooting at the RTS Craft Skills Masterclasses 2019.
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Matt Bacon, sound recordist/location sound supervisor, and Kate Davis, head of sound at Directors Cut Films, shared the essentials for recording good quality sound and the advantages of using foley effects at the RTS Craft Skills Masterclasses 2019.
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Editors Matthew Gray and Emma Lysaght discussed how to get into editing, what it's like to work with directors, and shared their tips on how to cut rushes and the importance of time management at the RTS Craft Skills Masterclasses 2019.
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International Affairs Editor for ITV News Rageh Omaar discussed working in war zones and keeping safe in hostile environments at the RTS Student Masterclasses 2019.
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Training: Sara Deane was a member of the Children’s Film Unit, before studying at Bournemouth Film School: “I was a clapper loader [second assistant camera] for five years and … [during that time] still shooting shorts because I knew I waned to be a director of photography. I [then studied at] the National Film and Television School and graduated about 10 years ago.”
Davis received a Bafta nomination this year for her work on the BBC Four documentary Amy Winehouse: Back to Black. Bacon specialises in formatted and entertainment series such as Channel 5 reality show The Bachelor and the BBC’s Masterchef.
How to get into editing: Emma Lysaght: “I left school at 16. My father was a film editor so I grew up watching my dad cut film. It was something I’d always wanted to do.
“It was quite a male environment, I was very nervous and very shy. I didn’t get into the cutting room until I was 19. My dad knew of one female editor.
“She needed an assistant so I stepped in and became her assistant. Within the first few months I was cutting news for Channel 4, which was very pressurised but you know exactly what you’ve got to do in those three minutes.
Why he wanted to be a journalist: I was born in Somalia where my father was part of the independence movement and a businessman who spent a lot of time in the UK. He moved us to the UK where I was educated.
Around our kitchen table we’d discuss what was happening in the world. That was where I first became interested in international news and the day’s big issues such as apartheid and Nelson Mandela and revolutions in the Middle East.
