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.

Option 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) and substantial relevant work experience.

In exceptional circumstances, we may consider candidates with relevant work experience and a lower undergraduate degree qualification. We welcome applications from candidates with a professional background in film, television, media, education, arts administration, or other related professional fields.

Tuition Fees

UK

£10,900 (Price per academic year)

International

£18,000 (Price per academic year)

Facilities

Our Harrow Campus is home to most of our arts, media and digital courses. It houses state-of-the-art facilities for every discipline, including project and gallery spaces, film studios, creative labs, collaborative learning spaces, and the Westminster Enterprise Network.

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.

Find out more about our research group related to this course:

• Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM)