BA (Hons) Film and Moving Image Production

Places on this course are currently available through Clearing. Contact us to discuss your options.

We will encourage you to explore a variety of filmmaking mediums and platforms to become an accomplished and creative storyteller.

You'll learn by doing as you become a flexible, multi-skilled collaborator with technical and craft skills highly-prized by industry.

You'll explore how the production skills you use and creative choices you make can shape and change the story you are telling.

Script to screen

Your focus will be the short film form, including:

• Original and adapted drama
• Documentary
• Advertising
• Commercial editorial work.

You'll play a range of production roles as you learn fundamental skills, including:

• Script writing
• Producing
• Directing
• Cinematography and editing
• Sound recording and sound design
• Production design.

Film production and release

Entrepreneurial skills won't take a back seat, as you pitch films to professional visitors, explore film marketing and distribution strategies, including festival and contest entries, as well as online platforms.

And you'll make full use of the industry networks associated with the course, attending craft workshops with leading writers, directors, producers, production designers, sound designers and cinematographers.

The final year provides opportunities to write, produce or direct an original short film and submit it for selection for a special industry screening.

There's also the potential for international exposure through online screenings and NUA's Graduate Showcase.

Graduates work in a broad range of careers including

You'll also get specialist creative careers advice from our team in the Ideas Factory^NUA to help support you as you plan your career.

Accredited by:

This course is industry recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based industries, and carries the ScreenSkills Select quality-mark which indicates courses best suited to prepare students for a career in the screen industries.

Course information

Institution code: N39
Course 3 Year UCAS code: W613
Course 4 Year UCAS code: W612
Course length: 3 or 4 year options
Work-based learning opportunities: Creative Professional Development Year (Level 5 diploma) available between years 2 & 3

All courses run as a blend of on-campus and digital teaching and learning, and follow current UK government safety advice. Applicants and students will be notified directly if any changes need to be made.

Undergraduate Year 1 entry

Use the tabs below to find the Year 1 entry requirements for your country qualification. If you do not see your country listed please contact the International Office directly.

Year 0 entry

Most undergraduate degrees at NUA offer a Year 0 (four year degree) option. Find out more about Year 0.

The Year 0 option has lower academic requirements to the typical three year degrees. If you would like to discuss the entry requirements for Year 0 entry please contact the International Office.