Film and Media Production MA

Course overview

Designed to develop the skills required for the ever-changing, fast-developing new media landscape, this exciting course fosters individuality, confidence and creativity.

• You will have the option to apply for a ‘professional experience’ opportunity², designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See the ‘Modules’ section for more information.
• You will experiment and develop new forms that take account of the analogue world and new digital tools that, when placed together, infer possibilities that are innovative, raise questions and have impact.
• You have the opportunity² to join our community of critical thinkers and makers, taught by staff who are themselves film-makers, authors and artists, who continually challenge traditional and emergent practices in their own work (staff may be subject to change).

Why you should study this course

The course places emphasis on experiential learning and offers a creative space in which experimental and innovative ways of working can be accommodated. It is based on critical practice and invites you to respond to the problems of media production now and how it has been shaped by key historical practitioners.

• All student work is outward-facing; productions from every semester are shown publicly using our state-of-the-art media base at The Tank.
• These regular screenings and actions ensure real-life public reaction to the work produced that in turn, influences practice in progress.
• You will have the chance to access professional equipment⁴ via our dedicated Media Loan Shop and studios. The Media Loan Shop has state-of-the-art equipment including GoPro camera kits, Canon and Nikon photographic and video cameras (inc. DSLR), Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4.6K EF camera collection Edirol recorders, and a range of photographic lenses, lighting and filters.

Careers and opportunities

Upon successful completion of the course you will be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to work creatively and effectively within a range of emergent media forms
• demonstrate the technical, organisational and creative skills required to function as an independent digital media practitioner in an international context
• think critically and reflexively about the full range of factors that impinge upon creative activities within digital media
• apply specialist knowledge in order to engage in new media practices in the field with communities of interest reflecting local, national and international concerns
• engage in radically challenging media practice through continuing innovative approaches of engagement and impact
• apply a continuing experimental approach to hybridity between conventional and new media forms to creatively interrupt entrenched conventions.

Preparing our master's graduates for onward careers is central to our approach to learning and teaching on the course. This includes developing authentic assessment, collaborative opportunities², placements², and advice and guidance for onward study on PhD programmes here and internationally (subject to availability).

Our three collaborative modules provide opportunities² to work with students in photography, VR/AR, media management and media/communication studies. You will be able to take advantage of cross-school connections and collaborations, as well as placement and onward opportunities² with the support of our Talent Team.