Program Overview

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Film, Television and Moving Image MA

Overview

Our innovative Film, Television and Moving Image MA builds on its prestigious heritage as one of the longest-running degree programmes of its kind in the UK. Through a distinctive mix of creative practice options and academic enquiry, this course emphasises the transformative potential of the screen sector and offers creative practice opportunities at three key stages: screenwriting, production and exhibiting.

Course Structure

The course is taught in two modes: full-time and part-time. Full-time students take 180 credits in one year. Part-time students take 80 credits in their first year and 100 credits in their second year.

The course is made of core and optional modules. There are three 20-credit core modules and a 60-credit core Major Project module. We also offer five 20-credit optional modules, from which you select three.

Core Modules

Contemporary Contexts in Film, TV & Moving Image

The module introduces some of the significant approaches to moving images while being mindful of the Western-centric vision they offer where relevant. Classes explore connections and relations of content, form, structure, and audiences of cinematic arts using examples of various global film, TV, and artists’ moving images.

Major Project in Film, TV and Moving Image

This module, building on the learning from your other modules, allows you to independently research and produce an aspect of screen work. Its flexibility allows you to complete a substantial piece of research-led writing or practice suited to your career aspiration.

Industry Practice

In this module, you will work in teams to respond to a live industry brief to create a short screen piece for an external client. To support this project, you will have practical workshops and seminars that build essential skills in collaboration, film-making and technical skills in creation, camera work, sound, and editing.

Optional Modules

Programming, Curation and Exhibition

What roles do programmers and curators play in film culture and exhibition making? This module introduces core professional practices and research skills required in the exhibition of film across a range of platforms, from cinema to festivals, gallery exhibitions to online streaming and new technologies.

Screenwriting

This creative practice module provides students with the opportunity to develop a story idea for a fiction film and equips them with professional skills required of a screenwriter in the industry.

Innovative TV Narratives

Innovation and adaptation have always been central to the work of the TV storyteller. This combined theory-practice module explores how TV storytellers disrupt, subvert and advance the language and grammar of the medium to create narratives that arrest our attention, highlight important issues, and challenge and provoke us.

Introduction to Documentary for Social Change

The module critically examines the influence, responsibility, and power of journalism with a focus on broadcast media across a number of genres in reporting on and representing gender, sexuality, age and disability.

Interactive and Immersive Media Production Skills

This module will develop your skills in cutting edge interactive and immersive media production technologies. You will be introduced to a range of interactive and immersive storytelling platforms.

Programme Membership

We are full members of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision), the prestigious global network of top-tier film, television, and animation institutions.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of an upper second class honours degree (2:1) or a lower second class honours degree (2:2) in a relevant degree or with relevant experience.
• In exceptional circumstances, we may consider candidates with relevant work experience and a lower undergraduate degree qualification.
• Applicants are requested to submit a short essay of 400 words: 'Describe and analyse a short sequence of no more than 3 minutes from a film or television programme of your choice. How does the sequence contribute to the overall meaning of the work it is a part of?'
• If your first language is not English, you should have an IELTS 6.5 overall, with at least 5.5 in each element.
• Applicants are required to submit two references.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £9,700 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £17,500 (Price per academic year)
• Alumni discount: This course is eligible for an alumni discount.
• Funding: There is a range of funding available that may help you fund your studies, including Student Finance England (SFE).
• Scholarships: The University is dedicated to supporting ambitious and outstanding students and we offer a variety of scholarships to eligible postgraduate students.

Facilities

• Modern recently refurbished lecture theatres and classrooms.
• Impressive library facilities including a large collection of e-books and both DVD and streaming audiovisual content.

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods across all our postgraduate courses focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.
• Our postgraduate courses include a variety of assessments, which typically fall into two broad categories: practical and coursework.

Research Groups

• Our research achieves real-world impact and we are proud to claim a rich and diverse profile of high-quality research and knowledge exchange in a wide range of disciplines.
• Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM)

Supporting You

• Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us.
• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills.
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential.
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits and visas.
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events and more.

Course Location

• Harrow is our creative and cultural hub, home to most of our arts, media and digital courses.
• Harrow Campus is based in north-west London, just 20 minutes from the city centre by train.