SELECT COURSE -------------------------- --MA COURSES Cinematography Composing For Film and Television Digital Post Production Directing Animation Directing Documentary Directing Fiction Editing Producing Producing and Directing Television Entertainment Production Design Screenwriting SFX/VFX Sound Design for Film and Television --------------------- --DIPLOMA COURSES Production Management Script Development Sound Recording for Film and Television ---------------------- --OCCASIONAL COURSES Directors Series Summerdocs: A Summer School in Documentary Direction --------------------- --SHORT COURSES Documentary Drama Business Skills Camera & Sound Editing Craft & Technical Multiplatform

OUR SCREENING ROOM

Birger Clausen

Leverhulme Trust Scholar 2005

Before coming to the NFTS, Birger studied music at Freiburg’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. With a mixed musical background of pop/jazz and classical music, he provided orchestral arrangements for pop artists as well as writing concert music, and orchestrating and conducting the score for the 2003 BBC documentary John Logie Baird – The Man Who Saw the Future. In his native Germany, he composed the music for several short films, including La Vie Sur Mars, which won the Best Film Award at the Novara Film Festival in Italy, and Europa, produced for arte/SWR. In the UK, he has worked on the short documentaries Dreaming Sideways and The Ice Tribe, both broadcast on Sky.

Birger has composed for a wide variety of films at the NFTS, writing music in a broad range of styles while still retaining an individual voice. He found the School’s collaborative approach extremely valuable, and has learnt how to “show the unshown” in a film through music. He is now looking forward to composing for feature films.

Birger Clausen was supported by a grant from Virgin Atlantic.

Films at the NFTS include...

Cloud in the Sky, Water in the Glass    
Journeymen    
London   Festival Premiers Plans, Angers 
Mad World   Royal Television Society Student Television Awards - Nominated, Best Animation; Edinburgh International Film Festival - [i]Nominated for a McLaren Award for New British Animation[/i] 
Night Shift    
Tanju Miah   Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition Award, UK - Highly Commended; Royal Television Society Student Television Awards - Winner, Best Postgraduate Factual award; Sundance Film Festival, USA 
A Touch of Sadness
Hope 2nd Best in Brief and joint Best Post-Production Award - Kodak Student Commercial Awards 2006
The Last Laugh (Kodak Student Commercial)

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