Filmmaking BA(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This course will enable you to explore and develop your own style of filmmaking while acquiring the skills needed to work professionally in the sector. It will help you to engage with innovative, ambitious ideas to be developed into films using high production values, including everything from documentary and fiction through to artists' film and experimental work.

What will you study?

This course is broad based with an exploratory approach. You will learn about a range of possibilities for the planning, production, post-production and presentation of your creative and ambitious ideas, gaining an insight into the increasingly diverse platforms for moving-image production and dissemination.

Teaching will include approaches to documentary, fiction, direction, editing, studio and location work, film contextualisation and combined approaches to all of these, along with building an informed understanding of the relationship between sound, image, text and context.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Filmmaking Practices 1
• Filmmaking Practices 2: Narrative and Documentary
• Film Unit
• Film Art
• Photography, Film, Screen (Contextual Studies)
• Language option

Year 2

• Filmmaking Practices 3: Experimental
• Filmmaking Practices 4: Documentary
• Filmmaking Practices 5: Narrative and Film Art
• Professional Development
• Film Contexts (Contextual Studies)
• Language option

Year 3

• Filmmaking Specialisms
• Major Project: Research and Development

• Major Project: Research and Development

  The emphasis here is developing the skills learned in previous modules into an original project within the context of your own career goals. This is your opportunity to produce a substantial piece of work based on an open brief. It will further develop skills relevant to your chosen career path and demonstrate your creative, technical and professional skills.

  
   
• Major Project: Realisation

• Major Project: Realisation

  This module follows on from the Major Project: Research and Development module and entails the full realisation of your ideas.

  
   
• Degree Show Exhibition

• Degree Show Exhibition

  The degree show exhibition gives you the chance to exhibit a body of creative work reflecting your highest achievements. It will launch you into the professional world with maximum impact.