Program Overview
MA Filmmaking (Editing)
Overview
This Masters will enhance your narrative skills as an editor of fiction for film and television.
Key Features
- This Masters is a pathway of MA Filmmaking, so that in addition to your specialised training you will collaborate with students across all specialisms on a variety of film projects.
- Experienced tutors and guests provide expert guidance designed to enhance the flow of your individual research, experimentation and artistic achievement.
- You will complete your degree by working in your specialist role on a major production in the final term.
- The programme is housed in a new purpose-built media facility equipped with state-of-the art teaching spaces including a film studio equipped with Arri lighting and Green Screen facilities.
- Goldsmiths is an Avid Learning Partner offering Editing students accredited training in Media Composer and the opportunity to certify as an Avid Media Composer Specialist. Edit suites, screening rooms and sound studios are linked via Avid’s industry standard NEXIS storage area network.
- You will work to professional standards using high-end digital formats. You will also learn sophisticated postproduction workflow techniques, gaining a wealth of experience in off-line editing and an understanding of how this fits in with on-line editing, visual effects and picture grading.
- In addition to your specialist area, you can attend classes in related disciplines. This framework is designed to stimulate collaborative practice by providing you with a breadth of filmmaking knowledge combined with a high level of expertise in your chosen filmmaking discipline.
Length
1 year full-time
Entry Requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least 2:1 standard in a relevant/related subject. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but you have relevant experience and can show you can work at postgraduate level.
Fees
- Home - full-time: £16,200
- International - full-time: £30,750
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Expert Guidance
Tutors on the MA Filmmaking course have a wealth of experience in the film and television industry. We maintain close links with the industry – the editing department has, for the last few years, had a strong relationship with the Guild of British Film and Television Editors who have provided mentors for our students.
What You'll Study
Specialist Studies
You will take the following modules:
- Editing: Specialist Skills (30 credits)
- Contemporary Screen Narratives (15 credits)
Optional Modules
You will choose three optional modules, worth 45 credits in total.
Examples of recent optional modules include:
- Social Activist Film (15 credits)
- Archaeology of the Moving Image (PG, 15 credits)
- Camera Fundamentals (15 credits)
- Film Producing Fundamentals (15 credits)
- Representing Reality (15 credits)
- Sound Design Fundamentals (15 credits)
- The Ascent of the Image (15 credits)
- Doctor Holby: Writing for Existing Continuing TV Drama Series (15 credits)
- Media Law and Ethics
- Practical Law for Film-makers (15 credits)
Final Project
You will complete a Final Project (90 credits), assessed by a portfolio of work and a viva that reflects your practice.
Overview
For two terms you will spend a full day a week in specialised contact with your specific programme convenor. These sessions include:
- Practical demonstrations and exercises
- Lectures
- Screenings
- Small group seminars
- Workshops
You will also take three optional modules, taught through practical workshops and hands-on experiences, as well as critical discussion and essay writing.
The third term will be taken up with your substantive Final Project and you will take part in a series of progress and feedback meetings.
Group Film Projects
You will work with other students from across the five MA Filmmaking fiction pathways to create film crews in a professional structure.
This allows you to develop realistic industry experience while making work with extremely high production values.
International Qualifications
We accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.
If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in writing and no element lower than 6.5 to study this programme.
Careers
On completing the programme, you will be equipped to enter the global job market, armed with an enhanced understanding of your practical, intellectual and creative capacities as a film editor.
Possibly the most important skill we furnish you with is the rigorous discipline of working collaboratively under pressure as part of a creative team on challenging projects not only in film and television, but also in online, web, multi-media, animation, games and other hybrid forms.
In addition to your practical filmmaking skills, we enable you to develop a variety of transferable intellectual, organisational and communication skills to equip you for a broad range of employment opportunities across the arts and media landscape (film, television, online, the creative arts, advertising and related hybrid forms).
Our Graduates
Our alumni are active in the film, media and cultural industries around the world as fiction and documentary editors.
If you are passionate about fashioning an exciting career for yourself as an editor in an environment that promotes innovative filmmaking, this course is for you.
