Picture Shop partners with Screen Manchester to launch trainee skills and development opportunity

Everywhere we look, there's so much content and information instantly available to everyone.

But do you ever focus on the images you see and wonder what it took to bring them to life? And did you ever imagine that you could be someone who could, in the future, be a part of the exciting, dynamic, ever-evolving and creative post-production process?

Now is your chance to explore some of the possibilities on offer.

Following the success of previous production development trainee schemes, Manchester's film office Screen Manchester is pleased to announce that applications are now open to join a new scheme in partnership with globally renowned post-production house, Picture Shop.

The initiative aims to provide on-the-job training in junior roles for the next generation of talent for the post-production sector.

With the support and assistance of BFI, and Screen Alliance North, with National Lottery Funding, the post-production trainee scheme will be a hands-on experience designed to build skills and open up this creative world to a wider talent pool.

It will commence with a skills training day and the team are looking to find 25 applicants who live in the Manchester area interested in runner roles within facilities that can lead to experience of the broader post-production process.

The applicants selected to proceed to the next stage as trainees will learn that every image we see on screen is made of the sum part of many skills - like a complex digital jigsaw.

When the actors and the crew on set wrap filming, a whole new process starts. Without the range of skills and talent post-production brings, none of the work done on any drama, documentary, advert or entertainment show would ever be pieced together and made to look