Program Overview

Film and TV Production - MA

Overview

Advance your skills and build your career in film and television production.

Summary

The overall aim of the MA Film and TV Production programme is to enable students to develop the advanced screen production, leadership and research skills required to facilitate the next generation of film makers, producers and researchers.

About

The MA in Film and Television is a flexible postgraduate programme which aims to produce informed, skilled and insightful film and television media creatives across a wide range of media production working in practice-based fields such as directing, producing, and screenwriting for film and tv.

Semester 1: Underpinning Knowledge and PG Certificate

• FTV705 Contemporary Screen Culture
• FTV700 Dramatic Filmmaking
• FTV708 Visual Storytelling

Semester 2: Facilitating Choice and PG Diploma

• FTV702 The Business of Film and Television
• Optional modules:
  • FTV703 Virtual Production
  • FTV704 Social Documentary Practice
  • FTV707 Immersive Storytelling
  • Advanced Screenwriting

Semester 3

• Final Project Practice

Attendance

Full-time: three semesters (one calendar year in total) for MA or two semesters for PGDip and PGCert. Entrance is in September.

Start dates

• September 2025

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Content

• The content for each course is summarised on the relevant course page, along with an overview of the modules that make up the course.
• Each course is approved by the University and meets the expectations of:
  • the relevant generic national Qualification Descriptor
  • the applicable Subject Benchmark Statement
  • the requirements of any professional, regulatory, statutory and accrediting bodies.

Attendance and Independent Study

• As part of your course induction, you will be provided with details of the organisation and management of the course, including attendance and assessment requirements.
• Courses comprise modules for which the notional effort involved is indicated by its credit rating.
• Each credit point represents 10 hours of student effort.

Assessment

• Assessment methods vary and are defined explicitly in each module.
• Assessment can be a combination of examination and coursework but may also be only one of these methods.
• Assessment is designed to assess your achievement of the module’s stated learning outcomes.

Academic profile

• The teaching staff on the MA Film and Television are recognised nationally and internationally as practitioners and researchers in the fields of directing, broadcast, virtual production, documentary practice.
• Staff on the MA program will include full time lecturers, teaching assistants, technicians and NI, UK and international professions in film and television as guest lecturers.

Careers & opportunities

Career options

• Directors, producers, showrunners
• Screenwriters for Film, television and streaming media
• Cinematographers and camera operators
• Production designers
• Vision mixers
• Production Management
• Virtual Production Supervisors

Work placement / study abroad

• There is no formal work placement available as part of this course.

Fees and funding

Tuition Fee Loans Available

• Students domiciled in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and UK students can apply to Student Finance NI for a Tuition Fee loan of up to £6,500 (subject to eligibility).

Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and EU Settlement Status Fees

• £7,240.00

International Fees

• £17,810.00

Standard entry conditions

Entry Requirements

• Applicants must hold a second-class honours degree or equivalent or demonstrate their ability to undertake the course through the accreditation of prior experiential learning APEL).
• A portfolio of practice work is required under APEL entry.

English Language Requirements

• The minimum requirement for this course is Academic IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5.
• Trinity ISE: Pass at level III also meets this requirement for Tier 4 visa purposes.

Exemptions and transferability

• Studies pursued and examinations passed in respect of other qualifications awarded by the University or by another university or other educational institution, or evidence from the accreditation of prior experiential learning, may be accepted as exempting candidates from part of the programme provided that:
  • they shall register as students of the University for modules amounting to at least the final third of the credit value of the award at the highest level.
  • no exemption shall be permitted from the Final Project

Modules

Year one

• Short Film Practice
• The Business of Film and Television
• Contemporary Screen Culture, Theory and Practice
• Final Project Practice
• Visual Storytelling
• Advanced Screenwriting (optional)
• Virtual Production (optional)
• Social Documentary Practice (optional)
• Immersive Storytelling (optional)