We build visual communicators, not button-pressers. In Creative Hut’s 100% residential Gurukul campus in Kerala, students master photography, cinematography, communication design, and post-production with an industry-oriented, AI-integrated curriculum. Through intensive hands-on practice, real-world projects, and expert mentorship, students develop strong visual storytelling skills aligned with current industry standards.
Choose your path
Pick the core diploma and the specialisation that matches your interest. Each pathway is practice-led, mentor-reviewed, and portfolio-focused.
A one-year residential diploma built on daily practice. Learn photography, cinematography, lighting, editing, and colour grading — and graduate with a portfolio and documentary film outcomes.
Learn ethical fieldcraft, long-lens technique, and cinematic wildlife storytelling. Build a wildlife portfolio and a documentary-style short film through guided field practice and reviews.
Build editorial and commercial fashion work with model direction, studio lighting, styling awareness, retouching workflows, and short fashion films for brands and professional pitching.
Learn brand-led visual production: product lighting, commercial frames, campaign thinking, and short ad films — with client-ready output standards and clean post-production workflow.
Learn travel storytelling through stills and film: landscape language, culture-led frames, documentary sequences, drone perspectives, and edits designed for reels, YouTube, and publication portfolios.
Train for real-world reporting with ethics, accuracy, and speed. Learn fast edits, strong captions, and documentary discipline to build public-facing stories for digital and media workflows.
Master motion and precision: panning, tracking, and timing. Learn reflective surface control for automotive work and build campaign-ready visuals with cinematic finishing and review.
Build space storytelling skills: perspective, lighting control, HDR workflow, and clean colour discipline. Create portfolio-grade interiors, architectural frames, and cinematic walkthrough films.
Two one-year, job-oriented residential diplomas.
Answer: Creative Hut offers two one-year, fully residential diplomas in Kerala: Professional Diploma in Photography and Cinematography and Professional Diploma in Communication Design (Photo & Film) .
Live, learn, and create on campus.
Answer: Yes, we provide fully residential courses only. We follow a Gurukul model that is 100% residential at Mattakkara, Kottayam (Kerala) with 24×7 mentor guidance, real work every day. A Gurukul system itself means that the students and faculty stay in the same campus everyday during the entire duration of the course program.
Minimum qualification for entry.
Answer: Applicants must have a minimum qualification of 10+2 (or equivalent) from any state, central, or international board. Graduates and post graduates from any stream are also welcome.
Multi-lingual teaching support.
Answer: English, Hindi, and Malayalam.
Career and placement after the course.
Answer: Yes. Our placement cell provides career support and placement assistance to all our students for jobs, freelancing, and future higher-study pathways with portfolio reviews and referrals.
Studios, labs, cafeteria and residential spaces.
Answer: Our campus is located in the beautiful land of Mattakkara, Kottayam (Kerala) known as God’s own country. Campus is set on nearly 1.7 lakh sq ft of land with approx. 15,000 sq ft of academic space including hostels, studios, editing labs, classrooms, and cafeteria.
Creative apps & production workflows.
Answer: Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, and DaVinci Resolve, plus responsible use of modern AI tools in planning and production.
Modern workflows with ethics.
Answer: Yes. Communication Design integrates AI for ideation and content; Photography & Cinematography uses AI for planning and enhancement wherever relevant.
Genre options during the course.
Answer: Specialisations offered in the course include fashion, food, product, wildlife, travel, birds, jewellery, sports, advertising, photojournalism, architecture, interiors, automotive.
Recommended gear for students.
Answer: Yes. Bring a camera with lenses and a laptop for daily practice. The institute provides access to other gear and labs, including strobe lights, modifiers, reflectors, gimbals, and drones for practical learning.
Work that employers recognise.
Answer: A market-ready body of work: a photography portfolio; short film, ad film and a documentary (PDAP); and AI-assisted communication projects (Communication Design).
Simple rhythm. Dedicated works. Real results.
Answer: Mornings: studio, lectures and demos. Afternoons: shoots and post-production. Evenings: reviews. Dawn shoots are scheduled as required with real work, and on some days it's the playing and relaxing time.
Simple online process.
Answer: Apply online → receive task → submit the task → get shortlisted → Offer Letter → enrol and move into the residential program. Apply Now.
A pan-India residential community.
Answer: Yes. We welcome students from all over India, building a diverse, pan-India residential learning culture.
Transparent, updated guidance.
Answer: Current fees are published during admissions. For the latest information, visit the Admissions page or WhatsApp us at 8547044220.
