Program Overview

Do you want to see your story ideas on the big screen or produce inspiring content for your favourite brands or musicians? Our intensive film and media production course will give you the expertise to influence and inspire future audience and turn your passion for film and media into a successful career.

Our multi award winning film and media production course aims to develop your creative, practical, and technical filmmaking skills and enable you to link theory to your practice. This course is practice focused, so you’ll learn about film production by making films. Working as a multi-disciplinary practitioner your will learn how to research, develop, write, produce, direct, shoot, edit and promote your own short films. You’ll engage with practical film production projects and build a portfolio of creative work that supports your future career aspirations.

You’ll join a creative community of students who are passionate about developing careers in the film and media production industry. You’ll work collaboratively across the Department of Media, Performance and Communication, fulfilling key crew roles on creative projects and broadening your film making experience. You can tailor your filmmaking practice and specialise on a chosen field including short drama and documentary films, music videos, experimental films, branded content, and client based commercial projects.

You’ll get hands on with industry leading film production equipment right from your first week of your course. Much of your time will be spent working on location or in our professional film production studios and post-production facilities.

To enrich your academic and practical studies you can engage with field trips to art galleries, film screening and leading film festivals, in the UK and abroad. You will have the opportunity to visit some of the UK's leading production facilities and attend a residential film shoot in places such as the Lake District.

You can gain a range of additional certification during your studies to support your career aspirations. You can gain official certification in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop as well as AVID and DaVinci Resolve. The course is also members of the BAFTA ALBERT+ partnership, which is developing the tools and techniques the screen industry is employing to address the environmental emergency and make production more sustainable. As BAFTA ALBERT+ Grad, your will be trained in the software and process required by productions to meet their sustainability requirements.

This course is accredited by the IMIS (International Moving Image Society) who provide a quality kite mark and assurance to of the course’s professional relevance and industry focus. The course is also a member of NAHEMI (National Association in Higher Education of the Moving Image), a group of leading educators, who organises the exhibition of our student work at places such as the British Film Institute’s cinema in London and Aesthetica Film Festival in York.

Students studying this course are also eligible to apply for Royal Television Society bursaries which pay £1000 (terms and conditions apply) per year to support with living and study expenses as well as providing the recipient with networking opportunities, masterclasses, and access to an industry mentor.

Graduates from this course go on to become directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, sound designers across a wide range of film and media productions. Our graduates worked on productions such as Harry Potter, Avengers, James Bond, Mission Impossible and TV shows such as Game of Thrones, Black Mirror and Dr. Who as well as music videos for people such as Ed Sheeran, Aitch, Stormzy and Little Mix.

Check out our YouTube Channel to watch over 100 films that have been made by students during their time studying this course. Many of these films have won awards and screen at film festivals all over the world.