Employment Opportunities

Photograph of Edit trainee on 16/35mm and Lightworks assistant editors course

It is estimated that about 70% of people working in the film and television industry are employed on short freelance contracts. Contracts can be anything from 1 day to several months. Full time permanently employed positions are rare. FT2 trains people to work as freelance crew.

The current minimum freelance weekly rate in the BECTU/PACT agreement for a 2nd Assistant Editor is £315.

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