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Mash has worked widely on US series House Hunters International and also shot an interview with Stephen Hawking for US talk show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Warrington, who usually works in natural history on programmes such as Channel 5 series Ben Fogle: New Lives in the World, recently shot CBBC drama Wolfblood Secrets, his first outing as a drama DoP.

Wildlife cinematographer Sophie Darlington (the BBC’s Planet Earth II and documentary feature African Cats) and director of photography Christopher Titus King, who straddles the documentary (BBC One’s Seven Ages of Britain) and drama (the History mini-series, The Bible) genres, discussed camerawork at the RTS Craft Skills Masterclasses.

The speakers included:

Rupert Houseman, an editor on cutting-edge documentaries such as Life and Death Row with Yan Miles, a drama editor who has worked on shows such as Game of Thrones and Sherlock.

Tim Palmer and Steve Robinson informed students about what it takes to work behind the lens 

Television is at its core a visual medium and the cameraman exists at the very heart of it.

Tim Palmer, a cinematographer working predominantly in TV drama, and BAFTA winning documentary cameraman Steve Robinson turned the viewfinder on themselves to deliver an RTS craft skills camera masterclass.

The session was chaired by former Yorkshire Television high flier Helen Scott.

Producers and editors adding camera work to their skills and the impact of new technology were key themes in this masterclass session on being a camera operator.

Self-shooting Series Producer Kristin Hadland, who began her career as a reporter, then moved into editing and producing at the BBC, said that learning to use a camera “gave me an enormous amount of freedom”.

She explained: “I was always depending on a camera operator. That was fine, but when you can shoot your own, you're getting exactly what you want to get… you don’t have to rely on anyone else.