Program Overview

Filmmaking MA

Overview

This dynamic program welcomes filmmakers of all kinds whether you're passionate about fiction, documentary, experimental, or commercial work. We support all specialisms and career paths, encouraging a collaborative approach to challenge and enrich your craft. You’ll develop your distinctive vision through films that are uniquely yours and understand their impact in a broader context.

Course Details

Core Modules

• Advanced Sound and Vision
  • Step into the world of filmmaking, where collaboration brings stories to life! Sharpen your skills in crafting moving image artefacts that capture the heart of a story through powerful visuals, sound, editing, and production design.
  • Work in teams through workshops in directing, producing, camera work, lighting, sound, editing, and sound design across documentaries and fiction.
  • Build a sophisticated understanding of digital environments, making sound decisions and taking ownership of your projects' outcomes.
• Masters Project
  • Unleash your vision as you dive into a major, in-depth, individual study tailored to your discipline and career aspirations.
  • Take full ownership of your project, from idea to execution. Create artefacts, exhibitions, publications, campaigns, and digital works either from scratch or significantly developing your own previous work.
  • Integrate all your learning into a substantial body of work that showcases your vision as a creative practitioner.
• Production
  • From concept to completion, you are guided through the creative, organisational, and technical processes of making short films to a professional standard.
  • You gain hands-on experience in production management, scheduling, budgeting, casting, and directing actors.
  • Take your original idea through preproduction and production to create a polished film as you master advanced techniques for overcoming challenges.
• Project Research and Development
  • Dive deep into the creative process of filmmaking and develop innovative approaches to turning your ideas into reality.
  • Apply advanced principles and theoretical frameworks to critically engage with existing discourses and generate fresh, original concepts for the moving image.
• The Connected Practitioner
  • Elevate your creative research skills, a cornerstone of all creative disciplines, fuelling both academic and creative work.
  • Learn engaging research practices and critical thinking to tackle real-world issues, policies, and audiences.

Advanced Practice (2-year full-time MA only)

• Modules offered may vary.

How You Learn

• You are immersed in creative practice and learn through doing; by making images, bodies of work, and real-world film artefacts.
• Lectures are complemented by seminars, discussions, and technical demonstrations.
• Collaborative group work is integral to the course, to reflect the dynamics of the filmmaking industry.
• You are expected to initiate, design, and implement your own projects, in negotiation with tutors.
• You also progressively become a more assured researcher, using a range of investigative methods to enrich your practice.

How You Are Assessed

• Assessments include production of artefacts and bodies of work, critical reflection, essays, portfolio, presentations, and reports.

Entry Requirements

• 2.2 or above in a related subject.
• Non-EU international students who need a student visa to study in the UK should check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements.
• The University also provides pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements.

Employability

• Career opportunities include director, producer, editor, cinematographer, sound designer, screenwriter, production designer, or on visual effects.

Information for International Applicants

• Qualifications: International applicants - find out what qualifications you need by selecting your country below.

Fees

Full-time

• Fee for UK applicants: £8,365 a year
• Fee for international applicants: £17,000 a year
• Length: within 1 year (September start), 16 months (January start), or 2 years with Advanced Practice (September or January start)
• Start date: January or September

Part-time

• Fee for UK applicants: £930 for each 20 credits
• Length: 2 years
• Start date: January or September

Choose Teesside

• Stand out from other job applicants with your higher level qualification, specialist knowledge, and expanded networks.
• Improve your project management, critical thinking, research skills, time management, presentation skills, and teamwork.
• The median salary for working-age postgraduates (£45,000) was £6,500 more than for working-age (those aged 16 to 64) graduates (£38,500) in 2022.
• Study in our friendly town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.
• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills.