Set Etiquette for the Film and TV Industry 2025

Course Name: Set Etiquette for the Film and TV Industry

Date the course commences:  Friday 17th October

Duration:  1 Day

Cost: Free

Venue Location: In-person, Wicklow/Dublin, venue tbc.

Tutor: Flavia Pordominsky

Course Profile:

This course will run over one day on Friday October 17th

This in-person course is run by the National Talent Academies: Film & TV Crew Academy East.  The aim of the course is to provide participants with the basic knowledge required to start on a production and be ‘set-ready’.  It is a practical hands-on course and will enable participants to hit the ground running their first day on the set of a production.

Course content:

• Crew roles and job descriptions
• Overview of the organisational structure of a production
• Understanding essential production documents such as call sheets, schedules and movement orders.
• Filling out start forms and timesheets
• Set Lingo
• Using walkie talkies
• Red light, bell and stage doors
• Set culture

Participant Profile:

This course is aimed at new entrants and trainee crew who want to work or are working in the live-action Film & TV Drama Industry. 

Crew who would like to gain more knowledge of Health and Safety procedures in the workplace can learn more with Screen Ireland’s free online Safe Pass course, link to information HERE.

Application Procedure:

Please apply online at this Link 12pm on Wed 1st October.

For technical difficulties with the online system please email brian.murphy@nationaltalentacademies.ie

Selection on courses/programmes will be based on quality of application and industry experience relevant to the course and participant profile.  We do not accept CVs so please make sure you outline all relevant experience in the application form. 

Film & TV Crew Academies courses are open to all regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

Reasonable accommodations: We aim to accommodate all attendees to help ensure they can successfully participate in our programmes. Reasonable accommodations are adjustments or modifications we can make to help those with disabilities participate fully in our training events.