Program Overview

MA Film Production

Overview

The MA Film Production course is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in the film industry. The course focuses on practice-based learning, with an emphasis on emerging workflows and frontier technology.

Attendance

• Full-time
• One year
• Next enrolment: September 2025

Introduction

The film industry needs artists who can adapt to changing production environments; practitioners who have the ability to invent new paradigms in storytelling. This course is all about asking questions, challenging your practice, looking to the future, and exploring the filmmaker you want to be.

Course Details

All about the course

This course delivers comprehensive training linked to traditional production skills, such as directing, screenwriting, and cinematography, but it also brings these skills together with the latest industry developments.

Core Modules

• Established and Innovative Practices: This module is about interrogating established conventions and examining the future use of technology and the emerging landscape of film production.
• Collaboration and Co-creation: This module challenges previous learning by exploring new and unfamiliar filmmaking processes.
• Major Project - Practical Project and Portfolio: In this module, you will draw on your learning experiences to establish a research question, which is investigated via a practical project.

Teaching

• You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, and practical sessions.
• You will use industry-standard filming equipment, software, and edit facilities and have access to high-spec computers throughout your course.

Assessment

• Assessment methods include practical exercises, written work, and a range of coursework assessments such as essays, reports, portfolios, presentations, demonstration of research strategies, and your final year major project.

Employment and Stats

• Upon graduating, you will become agile, highly adaptable, fast-thinking decision-makers and team players, ready to explore a variety of career paths within the film industry both as an independent filmmaker or in-house practitioner.
• A taste of what you could become:
  • A Director or Assistant Director
  • A Scriptwriter
  • An Editor
  • A Camera Operator
  • A Director of Photography

Requirements

• A 2:2 (with a portfolio) honors degree or above
• International applicants will be required to show a proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.5 (with no element below 5.5) is proof of this.

Fees

• Full-time home: £10,350 per year
• Full-time international: £20,990 per year

Additional Costs

• You should also consider further costs which may include books, stationery, printing, binding, and general subsistence on trips and visits.

Scholarships for International Students

• If you are a high-achieving international student, you may be eligible for one of our scholarships. Explore our international scholarships.