Course contact details
DMU Admissions
Email:admissions@dmu.ac.uk
Phone:0116 2078443
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
Course summary
Gain the skills to become a creative photographer and videographer with the confidence and knowledge to deliver on commercial briefs.
You’ll explore digital and analogue techniques to create industry-standard photography and video work, aligning with contemporary art practices. Additionally, you will develop your individual artistic voice through experimentation in your chosen disciplines, allowing your conceptual goals to evolve through critical conversations with tutors, peers, alumni, and visiting artists.
Your post-graduation career aspirations will be supported through modules, workshops, visiting guest lectures and external live brief projects that will provide you with experience in your chosen career.
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Create without limitations and enjoy access to free film and chemistry required to explore analogue techniques.
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Every student has an opportunity to work on live briefs for external clients, with additional work experience opportunities at businesses such as the National Space Centre, Disney, FABRIC (formerly Dance4), Soft Touch Arts and Gymshark.
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Our graduates go on to a varied range of careers in independent production, editing, curating, cinematography, multimedia industries, art directing, publishing and journalism, to name a few. Recent employers include Paul Smith, Sky, Vogue, Nike and Universal Pictures.
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Benefit from opportunities to discuss your work with world-leading curators and arts professionals. Past portfolio reviewers include curators from the Tate Modern, The Contemporary Arts Society, and other galleries and art institutions.
Modules
Course Modules
First year
Block 1: Photography Ideas and Practice
Block 2: Moving Image Ideas and Practice
Block 3: Contextual and Visual Research
Block 4: Presenting and Contextualising Your Work
Second year
Block 1 and 2: Experimental and Emerging Practice
Block 1 and 2: Critical Research and Contemporary Visual Culture
Blocks 3: Studio Practice: Themes and Techniques
Blocks 4: Curation and Exhibition
Third year
Blocks 1 and 2: Final Major Project Development
Blocks 1 and 2: Critical Research
Blocks 3 and 4: Final Major Project
Blocks 3 and 4: Professional Practices
Ways to study this course
Campuses
- Leicester Campus
Study options
- Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • Placement (mandatory) • 4 Years
- Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years
Start dates
Application codes
- Institution code:
- D26
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
De Montfort University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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How to apply
Application codes
- Institution code:
- D26
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.
Course optionsEntry requirements
Typical qualification requirements
A levelBBC
T LevelM
UCAS TariffOffer: 112
From at least two A-levels or equivalent
Access to HE DiplomaMerit: 15 Pass: 30
We will normally require students have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.
International Baccalaureate Diploma ProgrammeOffer: 26
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)DMM
Additional entry requirements
- Portfolio
- Applicants will be assessed for the following; * Selected portfolio to include a range of work i.e. final major project, photography and/or video skills, evidence of research
Contextual admissions
Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.
Here at DMU we welcome all applications, no matter what your background. To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application we consider more than just your grades–we take into account any challenges that you may have faced in your education. Contextual Offers will be offered to candidates who are in receipt of Free School Meals, who are Care Experienced or who are deemed to live in areas of low HE participation neighbourhoods (POLAR Quintiles 1 & 2).
Historical entry grades data
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
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Course optionsHistorical entry grades report
This report uses your grades to show how students with similar results have done when applying to this course in the past. Sometimes, there isn’t data for every possible set of grades. When that happens, universities and colleges occasionally fill in the gaps for sets of grades that are typically accepted.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
Per year tuition fees
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|---|---|
| England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland | £10050 | |
| EU & International | £16800* |
* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Additional fee information
Please note, this fee is subject to parliamentary procedure and will also be subject to a compounded annual inflationary increase.
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