Film Production (with a placement year)

Do you want to see your story ideas on the big screen or produce inspiring content for your favourite brands or musicians? Our intensive film and media production course will give you the expertise to influence and inspire future audience and turn your passion for film and media into a successful career.

Our multi award winning film production course aims to develop your creative, practical, and technical filmmaking skills and enable you to link theory to your practice. This course is practice focused, so you’ll learn about film production by making films. Working as a multi-disciplinary practitioner your will learn how to research, develop, write, produce, direct, shoot, edit and promote your own short films. You’ll engage with practical film production projects and build a portfolio of creative work that supports your future career aspirations.

You’ll join a creative community of students who are passionate about developing careers in the film and media production industry. You’ll work collaboratively across the Department of Media, Performance and Communication, fulfilling key crew roles on creative projects and broadening your film making experience. You can tailor your filmmaking practice and specialise on a chosen field including short drama and documentary films, music videos, experimental films, branded content, and client based commercial projects.

You’ll get hands on with industry leading film production equipment right from your first week of your course. Much of your time will be spent working on location or in our professional film production studios and post-production facilities.

Year One Core: Creative Film Contexts; Fiction Filmmaking; Film and Media Professional Development; Non-Fiction Filmmaking
Year Two Core: Client Filmmaking; Creative Filmmaking; Professional Filmmaking Practice
Year Two Optional: Global Cinema; Production Cultures; Science Fiction Film and Media
Year Four Core: Filmmaking Project 1; Filmmaking Project 2; Industry Research Project; Media Employment Project

Assessment is based on experiential learning and the submission of coursework, the nature of which is determined by the project/s or assignment/s set within a module, but which may consist of any one or combination of the following components:An essay or report, written according to given guidelines as to word-count and illustrated as required by the assignment
The script for a seminar presentation, or the presentation itself
Ideas books, photo study books, sketchbooks or visual diaries, documenting the process of generating, developing and resolving thoughts or ideas, and demonstrating the influence of research on practical work
Production files, Research books, folders, or dossiers, documenting the gathering, sorting and presentation of research material based on the production process
Finished Media/Film based artefacts, professionally presented in the format required by the assignment, project or brief