Production foundations
Set Ready
Build the practical knowledge and professional habits needed to arrive prepared, follow the production plan and contribute responsibly on a film set.
Learning
Learn how a production works before the call sheet lands.
Start with set and production roles, build camera and data skills, or learn post-production in DaVinci Resolve Free. Register and sign in to complete each self-paced course in the private e-learning portal.
How it works
A clear path from curious to prepared.
Courses are short enough to finish around real work, but detailed enough to help you arrive with better questions and safer habits.
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Create your learning account
Register, confirm your email and sign in to the private e-learning portal.
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Choose a practical starting point
Work through plain-language lessons, useful checklists, readable transcripts and an assessment at your own pace.
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Show what you learned
Complete the lessons and assessment to receive a private course completion record. You decide whether to share it with authorised reviewers of your private crew application or managed-roster record.
In-person course dates
Learn online, then meet in the room.
EC Film Resource runs selected in-person course dates during the year. Registered e-learning portal members may attend at no additional attendance fee. Dates are announced once confirmed, advance registration is required, and places are limited by venue capacity. Creating an account does not reserve a place.
No dates are currently open for registration.
Confirmed dates and registration details will be announced in the e-learning portal.
Create a portal accountCourse collection
Seven practical ways to start or build.
Choose Set Ready, Production Assistant, Cinematography Basics, Cinematography Advanced, Data Wrangler, Post-Production Basics or Post-Production Advanced. Full lessons and assessments stay inside the signed-in portal.
Production coordination
Production Assistant
Learn the reporting, communication, movement, logistics and wrap routines that make a production assistant dependable on a working unit.
Camera department
Cinematography Basics
Build a practical foundation in exposure, focus, framing, colour, motion and camera-department workflow through written lessons and fictional production exercises.
Camera department
Cinematography Advanced
Develop a repeatable cinematography process for visual planning, testing, exposure, lighting, monitoring, colour management, movement and post-production handover.
Data and media
Data Wrangler
Learn a conservative camera-media workflow built around custody, complete inventories, checksum-verified transfers, two verified copies, clear reports and authorised handovers.
Post-production
Post-Production Basics
Take a small film from organised media to a reviewed master using the editing, Fairlight, colour and delivery tools in DaVinci Resolve Free.
Post-production
Post-Production Advanced
Build controlled conform, multicam, colour-managed, Fusion, Fairlight, quality-control and handover workflows using DaVinci Resolve Free.