The painter paints his canvas and his tools are pigments and brushes. The cinematographer paints his canvas with lights and records on film or video. Though the tools are different yet the end results have striking similarities. Photography has it roots in science, technology, art and aesthetics. Physics, chemistry, engineering technology are the means to achieve the end, that is, the aesthetics. Such a subject needs serious studies to achieve high-end results. In the classroom the students are given the scientific and technological inputs along with the art related knowledge to develop the artistic sense.

The Film and Television technology is growing rapidly and every other day a new equipment is released in the field. The training methodology at FILM is to prepare the students for latest developments in the field and also to be prepared for the yet to be released equipment and for the ever changing wide variety of hardware / technologies. The students during the training use wide variety of analog and digital cameras along with several other support equipment needed for broadcast quality programmes.

At different levels the student during the training period, works as cameraman for several student production exercises which are designed on lines of the real situations in the professional field. The purpose of artistic lighting expands beyond merely illuminating the subject for exposure level. A good lighting can make the subject appear better than what it meets the eye and good subject may look ordinary if the lighting lacks aesthetics. The right balance of practical exercises along with the theoretical classes and demonstrations enable the students to use sophisticated camera and lighting equipment to produce high quality pictures.