Film Production
Postgraduate
Online
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Methodology
Online
As a creative arts university we’ve built an enviable reputation in the film world – producing four Oscar winners, thirteen BAFTA winners and a high-profile alumni network that has contributed to many global movie successes, including Star Wars, Godzilla, James Bond, Harry Potter, Mission Impossible and Fast & Furious.
We believe in learning through doing, so from the very beginning, you’ll become part of a close-knit creative team, making films exactly as you would in the film industry. This team ethos will help you fully explore the different aspects of filmmaking and establish yourself in a key specialist role, such as producing, production design, screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing or sound.
Our Film course has leapt an impressive 19 places in The Guardian's 2017 university league table.
About this course
At UCA, we offer one of the few courses where you can still combine the latest digital techniques with traditional filmmaking. We have a long tradition of training aspiring filmmakers on 16mm. This has a proven effectiveness for developing visual literacy and fostering the discipline and planning that will help you excel.
You’ll graduate from this course with a strong portfolio of work, with sought after specialist skills and the practical filmmaking experience employers really want.
The experience of studying film with like-minded people in a specialist arts environment will fuel your creativity and give you a wide network of invaluable contacts for your future career.
The course is 75% practical and 25% theory.
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Subjects
- Design
- Film Production
- Screenwriting
- Sound
- University
- Industry
- Team Training
- Directing
- Cinematography
- Production
Course programme
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
In the first year, you'll be introduced to the University and the technical workshops and facilities available to you. On the course you’ll learn the technical and conceptual skills that will give you a solid foundation from which to explore your areas of specialist activity.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course modules-
Portraits
You'll examine portraiture in filmmaking and stills photography, referencing to cultural practice in different media and exploring the use of visual and aural imagery to evoke and describe a self-contained world.
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Screenwriting and Screen Storytelling
You'll explore the practice of screen storytelling from a variety of perspectives, whilst focusing particularly on the role of the screenwriter. This unit will address the fundamental question of how we, as filmmakers, go about telling our stories on screen.
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Film History and Theory 1
This unit will complement the practice units, introducing you to a range of fundamental concepts essential to the understanding of film language, film grammar, film history and theory.
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First Fictions
We'll introduce you to storytelling in fictional filmmaking. The unit will help awaken your passion to tell stories and to understand that collaboration is at the heart of creative filmmaking.
The second year focus is on finding your own specialist way of working and you’ll be encouraged and supported to start working more independently. During this year you may also have the opportunity to complete an industry work placement or even study abroad.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course modules-
Fact Into Fiction
You'll develop your approach to fiction filmmaking from a starting point in the research of a true-life event.
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Film History and Theory 2
We'll provide you with a historical overview of various codes and conventions, drawn from documentary and dramatic realism, with which reality is represented in film and television.
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The Other Cinema
You'll be introduced to contemporary moving image work by a range of filmmakers who work outside or against mainstream or dominant commercial cinema and television - and its modes of production.
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Creative Documentary
You'll examine storytelling within the documentary form, which will encourage you to undertake a documentary journey that reveals unexpected realities. Through collaborative working, you'll gain confidence in understanding the stories and kinds of storytelling that are appropriate to documentary filmmaking.
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You'll also study one of the following optional units:
Directing
Cinematography
Producing
Screenwriting
Editing
Sound Design
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Study Abroad (optional)
This optional unit will allow you to spend a period of time in an overseas educational institution.
The third year will see you achieve a greater level of independence with self-managed research, study and practice, resulting in a final major project and a written dissertation.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course modules-
Graduation Film
This is designed to provide you with the opportunity to synthesise skills, knowledge and collaborative working methodologies acquired during Year 1 and Year 2 of the course. You'll be expected to work with a high degree of professionalism in a key specialist area on the production of a short film.
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Individual Practice
This unit will give you the opportunity to synthesise your learning on the course, explore your own personal creativity and develop a portfolio of project work. This can take the form of work on the screen or in the development of high level practical skills in a key specialist area of production by collaborating with your peers. You'll produce a short film (guideline duration of five minutes) which can be made in collaboration with other students subject to approval of the Learning Agreement. You'll also receive the opportunity to submit a report on a related work placement as part of the portfolio of work.
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Professional Futures
This year-long unit is designed to help you to synthesise all your learning on the course and prepare you for the world beyond.
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Dissertation
You'll undertake a substantial period of sustained, individually negotiated research on a subject related to the contextual and/or theoretical concerns of your discipline or chosen area of practice, towards the provision of structured written argument.
- View the programme specification for 2016 entry
Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.
Course modulesFilm Production