FTII-TV Camera

One Year Post Graduate Certificate Course in TV with specialization in Electronic Cinematography

This course opens up opportunities to the future generation of visual storytellers to pursue a career in professional cinematography. The course has been designed to nourish the pictorial and technological needs pertaining to the art and science of motion picture. Through a structured pedagogy, students are gradually exposed to various aspects of this specialized craft. With the ever-changing digital technologies in media, the opportunities available to professionals are becoming increasingly open ended. Keeping this in mind, the course lays emphasis on diverse visual storytelling aesthetics, supplemented with state-of-the-art equipment and overall infrastructure.

The facilities at hand include High-Definition Multi-Camera Television Studios, high-end digital cinema cameras, sophisticated optics, wide variety of lighting equipment and grips. In addition, the 4K digital colour grading suites enable our workflow to attain visual excellence. Students are also exposed to various interactions, both technical and creative, as well as workshops by professionals from the film industry.

Structure: The course is divided into three carefully designed phases with a modular structure:

Phase 1: Introduction to Basic Visual Principle

This common foundation module introduces students from all disciplines to the fundamentals of cinematography through a visually driven, aesthetic approach. Combining theoretical instruction with hands-on single and multi-camera exercises, this phase builds core perceptual and artistic awareness along with technical competence.

Academic and creative guidance combined with structured feedback sessions helps students develop perception towards visual grammar. Emphasis is placed on understanding foundational visual principles, image construction, composition, staging, light and shot design.

Students are encouraged to expand their ways of seeing, engaging with aesthetic concepts that shape human perception while building a strong conceptual base essential for advanced cinematographic study and creative exploration.

Phase 2: Specialization in Electronic Cinematography

In this phase, students formally enter their area of specialization in Electronic Cinematography. They undertake fiction and non-fiction projects ranging from 5 to 12 minutes in duration. These exercises are designed to deepen cinematic understanding across diverse storytelling forms.

Working with contemporary cinema line camera systems, luminaires and production technologies, students expand their visual vocabulary in response to both narrative and documentary contexts. Collaboration with peers from allied disciplines mirrors real-world production practice.

Learning is enriched through sustained mentorship from experienced faculty, intensive practical and workshops by visiting experts. The emphasis is on refining craft, strengthening visual decision making, and building a creative core.

Phase 3: The Course-end Module

Students conceive and produce a 15-minute film that reflects both professional-level execution and a clearly developed personal visual language. This project serves as a culmination of their technical training and artistic exploration in cinematography.

Students take primary responsibility for the visual realization of their film through the structured stages of ideation, referencing, developing a stylistic approach, lighting plans, camera strategy to on-set workflow and image post production.

The outcome is often a high standard film with unique cinematographic authorship demonstrating aesthetic maturity, technical competence and ensuring readiness for the demands of contemporary screen production.

Course Duration: 01 Year (Yearly pattern, Total marks = 1000)

Total No. of Seats: 11

Eligibility Criteria: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in any discipline