BA (Hons) Film and Television Production

Program Overview

The Film and Television program provides an industry-focused education, preparing students to become confident and skilled professionals in film and television production, post-production, and management. Through hands-on projects, partnerships with leading industry figures, and state-of-the-art equipment, the program equips students with the knowledge, skills, and experience to succeed in a variety of roles within the film and television industry.

Program Outline

Outline:

• The Film and Television programme is a ScreenSkills and CILECT accredited course that provides an environment in which students can grow into confident television and film practitioners.
• The course is designed to put the industry and its needs at the heart of our teaching.
Students learn professional skills from the outset, managing and producing their own location and studio-based shoots, and getting the opportunity to experience a variety of key roles on set and in post-production.
• Our close partnerships with leading industry figures ensures that students hear about the latest commercial developments, while also putting into practice the long-established methods and techniques, workflows, and standards employed by film and television companies globally.
• During your studies, you can take control of your own specialist career development, choosing to focus on those areas of production and post-production that best suit your passions and employment aims.
• With modules covering the theory, history and contemporary practice of film and television, the course gives you an understanding of the industry’s past while preparing you to take an active part in its future.

Careers:

• Our students have worked on some of the most famous and recognisable names in recent film and television productions, including:
• Archivist and Script Editor: EastEnders (BBC)
• Producer: The Grand Tour (Amazon)
• Production Assistant: Wonder Woman, The Mummy, Tomb Raider, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Spider-Man Far From Home
• Post-Production Runner: Gogglebox (Channel 4)
• Producer/Director: Jamie Oliver’s FoodTube (YouTube)
• Video Assistant: Ready Player One, Justice League, Murder on the Orient Express, Christopher Robin, Mary Poppins Returns
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Camera Operator: Victorian Bakery (BBC)
• DIT: Back in Time for the Weekend (BBC)
• Production Assistant: Hunted and Celebrity Hunted (Channel 4)
• Assistant Producer, Strictly Come Dancing (BBC)
• Marketing Assistant, Warner Brothers
• Head of Editorial, The Edge Picture Company
• Editor, IMG
• Creative Producer, Viasat
• Graduates initially go on to become runners, junior researchers, assistant producers, assistant directors, editors and camera assistants, and freelancers.
Thereafter, they may expect to progress all the way up to senior roles such as producer, director, senior editor, head of department. Our graduates gain employment in both production and post, and in TV and film, as well as digital and film marketing, web content creation and online video production.

Other:

• The course regularly invests in high quality production and post-production equipment, often making new purchases every year.
• The Mike Newell Sound Stage TV Studio is a large dedicated HD broadcast standard facility complete with a railed light rig and pedestal cameras with autocue systems, green screen and vision mixer.
Students also have access to the Doug Milsome Cinematography Lab for technical training and small-scale filming.
• Our post-production facilities consist of the 40 seat Walter Murch Post-Production Lab and a second 40 seat dedicated lab with major post production software available from Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools for picture and sound editing, Baselight and DaVinci Resolve for colour correction and Final Draft for scriptwriting and production planning.
• A 120 terabyte shared storage facility by EditShare running an award nominated workflow (Finalist, Broadcast Tech Awards 2021) enables students to edit projects collaboratively and simultaneously, mirroring industry standard workflows and practice, while also giving students access to our library of over 23,000 sound effects and 4,000 music tracks to use in their edits.

UK Students

Full time £9250 for the 2024/2025 academic year

EU Students

Full time £15500 for the 2024/2025 academic year

International Students

Full time £15500 for the 2024/2025 academic year