directory of MITA members

providing continuing professional development

Training for experienced practitioners employed in the film, TV and audiovisual industries

Skills Channel TV

Innovation House
23 Carriage Drive
Kettering
Northamptonshire

0845 837 7763

www.skillschannel.tv

what we do

Skills Channel TV offers highly interactive and practical personal and business development activities with the aim of moving people and businesses forward. We offer tailor-made courses and events in creative industry leadership and management skills, business development, handling the media, training the trainer, coaching for managers and team building. As one of the UK’s leading media training consultants, we work with a wide range of UK and international brands – just trying to make a difference.

training offered

  • Business support
  • Continuing professional development
  • Mentoring
  • Non-formal learning

learner profiles

  • Companies
  • Industry professionals
  • Under-represented groups

progression

Students from Skills Channel TV are looking for the following opportunities:

  • Production, commissions and funding opportunities
  • Work experience

SPACE Media Arts

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129-131 Mare Street
London E8 3RH

020 8525 4330

www.spacestudios.org.uk

what we do

SPACE media arts runs a wide variety of media arts training courses for artists, young people, local people and communities. We have gained a reputation as a high-quality, low-cost training centre. 

We offer a constantly expanding and diversifying programme of still and moving image training, including film and video editing (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, After Effects), digital imaging (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), animation and web2.0 technologies. 

In addition to this, SPACE media arts produces an increasing number of community facing, media-based educational projects for young people, with a focus on those who are disadvantaged due to social, cultural or economic circumstances. Working almost exclusively with new emergent technologies, such as mobile phone, bluetooth and web2.0 broadcasting platforms, these programmes promise to facilitate grass-roots access to the means of media production and promote community self-empowerment. 

training offered

  • Accredited training (internal validation)
  • Artform development
  • Business support
  • Continuing professional development
  • Non-formal learning

learner profiles

  • Companies
  • Industry professionals
  • New entrants
  • Young people

progression

Students from SPACE Media Arts are looking for the following opportunities:

  • Freelance employment
  • Full-time/part-time employment
  • Ongoing education
  • Work experience

TAPS

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Shepperton Studios
Studios Road
Shepperton TW7 0QD

01932 592 151

www.tapsnet.org

what we do

TAPS’ workshops focus on different areas of writing for film and television – with an emphasis on helping writers to develop the skills and contacts to place themselves in the industry. TAPS is unique in producing a professionally performed and filmed showcase of the selected writers’ work. These can be used as calling cards for the writers and are distributed by TAPS to a network of industry professionals.

training offered

  • Artform development
  • Continuing professional development
  • Mentoring
  • Non-formal learning

learner profiles

  • Industry professionals
  • New entrants

progression

Students from TAPS are looking for the following opportunities:

  • Freelance employment
  • Full-time/part-time employment
  • Internships
  • Production, commissions and funding opportunities

The Production Guild

N & P Complex
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath
Buckinghamshire
SL0 0NH

01753 651767

www.productionguild.com

what we do

The Production Guild is a representative body for production accountants, financial administrators and production executives working in film and television drama. We deliver a range of accredited training programmes for new entrants and industry professionals funded by the Lottery through the Skillset Film Skills Fund and the UK feature film industry. We run two annual new entrant schemes: the Assistant Production Accountant Training Scheme and Assistant Production Co-Ordinator Training Scheme. In addition we deliver a number of professional development programmes aimed at current practitioners including: PG Progress – Production Management for individuals keen to progress to the next level of their careers as production managers; PG Progress – Accounts II, a fast-track programme for those wishing to move into production accounting; and PG Empowers, a seminar programme designed to expand the working knowledge of existing industry professionals.

training offered

  • Accredited training (external validation)
  • Accredited training (internal validation)
  • Continuing professional development
  • Mentoring
  • Production experience
  • Work placements

learner profiles

  • New entrants
  • Under-represented groups

progression

Students from The Production Guild are looking for the following opportunities:

  • Freelance employment
  • Full-time/part-time employment
  • Work experience

VET

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Lux Building
2-4 Hoxton Square
London N1 6US

020 7505 4747

www.vet.co.uk

what we do

Built on over 20 years of successful delivery, VET is one of Britain’s top training providers in the craft and technical grades of moving image and sound on all platforms. Our practical and student-focused courses are taught by working professionals who know how to demystify cutting-edge technology and care about facilitating learning for all.  

VET is a Skillset approved training provider and a training delivery partner of Avid, Panasonic and Sonic Solutions and is a 'preferred supplier' for the provision of training and development to the BBC. As the sole Avid Authorised Education Centre in the UK we offer a range of certified courses leading to Avid accreditation. We also offer industry-standard short courses and bespoke training including: High Definition (HD); videos for Internet TV, mobiles and handheld; broadcast technology; Final Cut Pro; digital camera operation; and tapeless post production workflow. 

Delivered in state-of-the-art facilities located in sun-kissed studios overlooking Hoxton Square, VET’s courses address the skills and knowledge gaps of a range of media practitioners, from independent filmmakers and artists to broadcasters.  

In addition to training, we have a production arm and offer post-production services, including editing, audio dubbing, IPTV, mobile and DVD.

training offered

  • Accredited training (internal validation)
  • Artform development
  • Continuing professional development
  • Production experience

learner profiles

  • Industry professionals
  • New entrants
  • Under-represented groups

progression

Students from VET are looking for the following opportunities:

  • Freelance employment
  • Full-time/part-time employment
  • Ongoing education