Course overview
This dynamic program welcomes filmmakers of all kinds whether you're passionate about fiction, documentary, experimental, or commercial work. We support all specialisms and career paths, encouraging a collaborative approach to challenge and enrich your craft.
You’ll develop your distinctive vision through films that are uniquely yours and understand their impact in a broader context.
- Independence: set your creative goals and confidently forge your own path.
- Collaboration: work effectively with others to bring ambitious projects to life.
- Critical engagement: ground your work in research, curiosity, and thoughtful analysis.
- Global perspective: gain insight into diverse audiences and markets and learn how to engage them.
- Resourcefulness: learn to turn challenges into creative opportunities.
- Professional readiness: Graduate as a tech-savvy, entrepreneurial filmmaker, fully prepared for the industry.
With a postgraduate degree in filmmaking, the career possibilities are as vast and dynamic as the stories you’ll tell whether you’re drawn to the big screen, small screen, or the evolving digital landscape. Here’s just a taste of careers that this degree can take you: director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, documentary filmmaker, documentary filmmaker, creative entrepreneur, sound designer and content creator.
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Course details
Course structure
Core modules
Step into the world of filmmaking, where collaboration brings stories to life! Sharpen your skills in crafting moving image artefacts that capture the heart of a story through powerful visuals, sound, editing, and production design. Work in teams through workshops in directing, producing, camera work, lighting, sound, editing, and sound design across documentaries and fiction. Build a sophisticated understanding of digital environments, making sound decisions and taking ownership of your projects' outcomes.
Unleash your vision as you dive into a major, in-depth, individual study tailored to your discipline and career aspirations. Whether you're interested in commercial, industrial, creative, or research fields, this project is your canvas.
Take full ownership of your project, from idea to execution. Create artefacts, exhibitions, publications, campaigns, and digital works either from scratch or significantly developing your own previous work.
Integrate all your learning into a substantial body of work that showcases your vision as a creative practitioner. This is your chance to shine your brightest.
From concept to completion, you are guided through the creative, organisational, and technical processes of making short films to a professional standard. You gain hands-on experience in production management, scheduling, budgeting, casting, and directing actors. Take your original idea through preproduction and production to create a polished film as you master advanced techniques for overcoming challenges.
Project Research and Development
Dive deep into the creative process of filmmaking and develop innovative approaches to turning your ideas into reality. Apply advanced principles and theoretical frameworks to critically engage with existing discourses and generate fresh, original concepts for the moving image.
This is your chance to craft innovative film projects and define your unique voice in the world of moving images.
Elevate your creative research skills, a cornerstone of all creative disciplines, fuelling both academic and creative work. Learn engaging research practices and critical thinking to tackle real-world issues, policies, and audiences. Join a vibrant postgraduate community, exchanging ideas and perspectives across various creative fields. Benefit from lectures and online tutors delivering key knowledge on current debates, issues, and research approaches in the arts and creative industries. Participate in seminars and studio sessions for active debate and practical application of research.
Advanced practice (2 year full-time MA only)
Modules offered may vary.
How you learn
You are immersed in creative practice and learn through doing; by making images, bodies of work, and real-world film artefacts. Lectures are complemented by seminars, discussions and technical demonstrations.
Collaborative group work is integral to the course, to reflect the dynamics of the filmmaking industry. You are expected to initiate, design and implement your own projects, in negotiation with tutors. You also progressively become a more assured researcher, using a range of investigative methods to enrich your practice.
You are taught by a range of experienced professionals and several BAFTA Nominated filmmakers. Visiting seasoned industry practitioners further help you to prepare for the industry through their specialist skills and experience.
How you are assessed
Assessments include production of artefacts and bodies of work, critical reflection, essays, portfolio, presentations and reports.
Entry requirements
2.2 or above in a related subject.
Non-EU international students who need a student visa to study in the UK should check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements. The University also provides pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements.
For general information please see our overview of entry requirements
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Employability
Career opportunities
You may go on to forge a career as a director, producer, editor, cinematographer, sound designer, screenwriter, production designer or on visual effects.
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