MA Producing

Program Overview

The MA Producing program at MetFilm School is a one-year program designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge to become entrepreneurs in the screen business world. It focuses on developing skills in budgeting, production management, raising finance, idea development, and pitching. The program also provides opportunities to work with students on other pathways, build a professional profile, and understand how different roles in the industry interact.

Program Outline

MA Producing at MetFilm School:

Degree Overview:

#A Uniquely Entrepreneurial Approach

This one-year MA program focuses on developing the necessary skills and knowledge to be the next generation of entrepreneurs in the screen business world. The course takes a skill-specific approach, focusing on areas like budgeting, production management, raising finance, idea development, and pitching. It's also interdisciplinary, offering opportunities to work with students on other pathways, build your professional profile, and understand how different roles in the industry interact.

#Program Aims:

• Cultivate a deep understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a producer across various screen platforms.
• Develop the ability to produce ambitious, high-quality content, including experimentation with form and content.
• Analyze and initiate creative projects well-suited to industry needs and audiences.
• Enhance editorial and production skills for creative oversight of projects throughout development and delivery.
• Develop advanced skills in managing people, resources, risks, and contracts.
• Expand understanding of business principles within the screen business landscape.
• Recognize the role of research and intellectual inquiry in academic development and professional practice.
• Equip you with the skills, knowledge, and attributes to build a career as an enlightened screen industry professional.

Outline:

#Trimester 1:

• Focuses on creative and financial elements of producing.
• Explores career profiling and builds a CV and personal profile.
• Collaborates with other students on short video projects using a camera phone.
• #Trimester 2:
• Leads a team in an ambitious production exercise, putting knowledge into practice.
• Explores the entrepreneurial essence of producing and research's role in academic and professional development.
• #Trimester 3:
• Creates and delivers a filmed artefact, integrating practical, theoretical, and industrial understanding.
• Finalizes your career plan as part of your transition into the professional world.
• #Module Examples:
• Producing Craft and Industry: Develop your understanding of both production nuts and bolts and content, industry, and audience, culminating in a feature film or television project pitch to industry professionals.
• Financing Film and Television: Gain insight into commissioning and financing processes, including different funding types and convergence between film and television investments.
• Professional Profile: Develop authentic and detailed career documentation, including a CV and personal profile.
Refine your profile through elective upskilling sessions.
• Production Management and Practical Production: Lead teams across different disciplines to collaboratively create and deliver screen content for external clients.
Apply industry-standard production models to understand how a creative producer operates.
• Creative Business Models and Methods: Understand how businesses are created and developed within the creative media sector.
• Practice-based Research: Explore diversity, sustainability, and ethics within the screen industries.
• Final Project and Career Plan: Deliver a distinctive, industry-aware project reflecting research and awareness of diversity and inclusion.
Present your career plan, including evidence of new skills, and refine it for entering the screen industries after graduation.

Careers:

The program prepares you for a variety of careers in the screen industries, including:

• Producer
• Line Producer
• Development Executive
• Production Manager
• Project Manager
• Content Creator
• Entrepreneur

Other:

• The program is accredited by ScreenSkills, demonstrating that it's well-suited to prepare students for a career in the screen industries.
• Students can access various equipment and resources available on each of the MetFilm School campuses.
• Application process, deadlines, and admissions criteria.
• Tuition fees, scholarships, and funding opportunities.