Program Overview

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Film and Television Production (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

Overview

This course nurtures your passions and helps you build a career in film and TV. You learn the practical aspects of film and television production, and film in our industry-standard facilities, which includes two television studios, a fully operational radio station, digital film production equipment, and grading and edit suites.

Course Structure

Foundation Year Core Modules

• Creative Media: Explore media fundamentals, including the making of images, video, sound and audio-visual materials.
• Final Project: Create original ideas and concepts for your individual project, creating an artefact, report, campaign, comic, product or other form related to the arts, design and media industries.
• Storytelling: Learn the fundamentals of storytelling and its historical, social, cultural and political contexts in relation to media such as TV, marketing, music and writing.
• Study Skills: Develop key study skills in preparation for starting your degree, including critical thinking, teamwork, research and delivering presentations.

Year 1 Core Modules

• Collaboration Project: Enhance your skills in team-working, communication, project management and negotiation.
• Introduction to Film and Television Production: Key Craft Principles and Skills: You are introduced to the practical fundamentals of film and TV production and creative visual storytelling.
• Introduction to the Creative Industries: Learn how to start on your career path while developing vital employability skills such as networking and digital presence.
• Screen Cultures: Visual Methods and Critical Responses: Study the core principles, visual grammar and aesthetics central to the creation of meaning in film and television.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Advanced Storytelling and Production Specialisms: From Script to Screen: Critically and contextually explore the difference between short-form drama and non-fiction content.
• Creative Research Project: Develop critical thinking and analysis skills, exploring contemporary issues and debates related to the creative industries.
• Industry Project: You develop and explore, in depth, a creative industry-based project in your specialist area of design, art, media, music, photography or illustration.
• Working in the Creative Industries: Research the social, political or ecological challenges around us to generate a small-scale project.

Optional Work Placement Year

• Work Placement: You have the option to spend one year in industry learning and developing your skills.

Final-Year Core Modules

• Major Project: You produce a self-managed, individual extended piece of independent investigation and/or creative production or portfolio of work.
• Professional Practice: Plan and implement your departure from education to your first or new career, or to further study.

Entry Requirements

• Any combination of level 3 qualifications. Each application is considered on a case-by-case basis.

Employability

• Previous students have gone on to work at BBC, ITV and major production studios such as Pinewood.

Tuition Fees

• UK Applicants: £9,535 a year
• International Applicants: £17,000 a year

Duration

• 4 years (5 with work placement)

UCAS Code

• P339 BA/FTPFY

Start Date

• January or September

Semester Dates

• Available on the university website

Typical Offer

• 48-64 points

Overview of Entry Requirements

• Available on the university website

Apply Online

• Available through UCAS

iPad and Learning Resources

• Eligible students may receive an iPad, keyboard and up to £300 credit for learning resources.

Accommodation

• Live in affordable accommodation right on-campus - from only £100 a week

Campus

• Study in our town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.

Adobe Creative Campus

• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills.

School of Arts & Creative Industries

• See what it's like to study at our School of Arts & Creative Industries.

TUXtra

• TUxtra is the new integrated media publishing platform for media and journalism students at Teesside, bringing together exciting and innovative content on-air and online.