Creative Digital Film Production (Taught)

This course gives you the specialist knowledge and skills you need to work and succeed the fast-evolving field of digital film production. You explore areas such as cross-media approaches to storytelling; scriptwriting; production planning and development; digital film production; editing and post-production techniques; and film history and theory. Building on experience, you further develop your understanding of both fiction and non-fiction film-making through an advanced study of film theory which you apply in practice, building your creativity and personal style.

Facilities and specialist equipment

• High-spec television broadcast studios and radio facilities

• Netflix-standard cameras to produce broadcast-quality film and television

• Industry-standard film production and post-production equipment

• Location recording equipment

• 3D green-screen room

• Digital video-editing suites

• Adobe Creative Cloud software

You also have access to our Postgraduate and CPD Centre featuring:

• 4,254m2 of space over five storeys

• state-of-the-art IT and AV equipment

• informal learning spaces

• quiet study areas

• 24/7 access to our library services with around 194,000 e-books and 192,000 e-journals.

Industry links
Build your skills and experience through our industry links with organisations and companies such as Pinewood Studios, the BBC, ITV, the Royal Television Society, MKFM, Octopus TV, Monkey Kingdom, Zig Zag Productions, the Berlin Shorts Festival, Luton Town FC and Coolr social media agency.

Student experience
Learn from a dynamic, experienced team of filmmakers, academic experts and published scholars.

Within the 'cinematics' subject category, 96% of our students were satisfied with the learning opportunities their course offered, including teaching skills for the future (NSS, 2024).

Take up regular, exciting opportunities to meet visiting, industry-active professionals. Recent speakers include documentary film-maker Ken Kirby; Jess Symons, MD at Ivy House Productions; Lorraine Heaton, Production Management, BBC Studios; and Keanu Rattray, Digital Content Manager at FIFA.

Gain radio broadcast experience via our award-winning, Ofcom-licensed local community radio service, Radio LaB, which is run by students for students and the local community.

You have the opportunity to work on Beds TV, our in-house TV station, and use our facilities to produce content for the station.

Take advantage of field trips to studios, film festivals and work-related destinations including MKFM; Luton Town FC; MK Dons FC; BBC Broadcasting House; BT Sport; Pinewood Studios; Sky; Molinare post-production company; and the Student Radio Awards.

Our graduates have gone on to work for the BBC and ITV as well as on or in top TV shows, films and stage productions such as James Bond: No Time to Die; Mission: Impossible; Married at First Sight; Strictly Come Dancing; Gogglebox; The Apprentice; Dr Who; The Graham Norton Show; Game of Thrones; and My Fair Lady.