Film Making & the Creative Economy MA

The UK's media sector is extremely successful worldwide. For example, our advertising market is rated as the fourth largest in the world, producing world-class TV formats and output. Our publishing industry covers a complete range of printed and leading-edge digital applications.

If you are currently employed in or would like to develop a career in film, the Film Making & the Creative Economy MA course is ideal. It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industry effectively within the creative economy.

What will you study?

By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the leading-edge knowledge and practical skills needed to succeed in this area of the creative economy.

If you are looking for a course where you can enhance your creative skills whilst acquiring practical, managerial and entrepreneurial skills this course is for you. We will help you find ways to connect creativity and business in a successful and meaningful way. Find out more...

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. 

For the core modules, you will study with students from across all the Creative Industries programmes. For the specialist modules, you will study alongside film making fellow students.

Core modules

• Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship in Practice

• Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship in Practice

  This corner-stone module provides you with 'hands on' experience of life in the creative economy through working together to create, design and manage a viable creative enterprise project. 

  This creative project will form the context for subsequent learning throughout the course.

  
   
• Managing Creativity and Innovation

• Managing Creativity and Innovation

  This module aims to develop your entrepreneurial management behaviours, encouraging an approach to learning that copes with and enjoys uncertainty, risks and complexity. 

  The core curriculum of this module will underpin the knowledge and skills required for The Creative Economy module.

  
   
• Leadership in the Creative Economy

• Leadership in the Creative Economy

  This module encourages you to learn experientially about leadership through performance and develop conceptual understanding of creative leadership and how it differs from more traditional approaches. 

  Where appropriate, you will apply your learning to leadership roles in the creative project developed within The Creative Economy module.

  
   
• Contemporary Issues in the Creative Economy

• Contemporary Issues in the Creative Economy

  This module offers a range of optional learning experiences to complement the three core modules above. These include areas such as:

  • consultancy practice;
  • cross-cultural management communication;
  • creativity and consumption; and
  • critical appraisal of the creative economy. 

  Specific learning outcomes for each student will be agreed with the course director, and may involve taught sessions, work-based learning, or a mixture of both.

  
   

Specialist modules

• Making Films

• Making Films

  This module will enable you to:

  • use a range of digital video camcorders and digital sound recording equipment;
  • arrange and organise material using non-linear editing software;
  • complete a coherent short narrative film, mastered and submitted on DVD; and
  • appreciate the relations between theory and practice more clearly.
  
   
• The Film Script

• The Film Script

  In this module you will complete two or more coherent short sound pieces, which enable you to:

  • demonstrate a critical understanding of the relation between sound and image in film making;
  • use a range of digital sound recording equipment more creatively;
  • arrange and organise sound materials creatively using non-linear editing and mixing software; and
  • critically reflect on your practice through self-evaluation and peer-review.
  
   
• The Sound System

• The Sound System

  This module improves your a critical understanding of the relation between sound and image in film making. It will enable you to:

  • use a range of digital sound recording equipment more creatively;
  • arrange and organise sound materials creatively using non-linear editing and mixing software;
  • complete two or more coherent short sound pieces; and
  • critically reflect on your practice through self-evaluation and peer-review.
  
   
• Visions of Light

• Visions of Light

  In this skills module, you will:

  • study cinematography;
  • look at the role of light in film and video production; and
  • produce a short piece indicating your grasp of composition, art direction and lighting.
  
   

Final project

• Personal Research Project

This course is taught jointly by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business and Law.

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