Filmmaking

MA Filmmaking

Mode: full-time

The Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University introduces a new and unique MA media programme - the Media LAB, with pathways in Photography, Filmmaking and Media Arts. You will work on individual projects in your chosen field, while experimenting with a broader spectrum of screen media methodologies in interdisciplinary groups and in close collaboration with an extensive, regional network of cultural and media organisations.

Top facts

• Manchester and the North West provide an inspiring and vibrant professional and artistic community, from major television companies like the BBC, Media City and Granada to film and digital media production companies and renowned media and art exhibition centres and galleries.
• Professional link placements and projects with the region's major arts and media organisations will be a key strength of the programme, such as Cornerhouse, Urbis, Castlefield and CUBE Gallery or Let's Go Global in Manchester; FACT Media Centre and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, Folly Media Centre in Lancaster and the National Media Museum in Bradford.
• Artists' and media professionals' master classes will form a core of the teaching alongside the professional link programme, together with tutorials, theoretical debate, interdisciplinary projects, seminars and technical workshops.
• The Media Lab - a 'laboratory for ideas' - understands itself as a collaborative artists' community. We want to provide an open and flexible approach to practice, in which students and researchers can meet, initiate and share activities.

You will study
Using High Definition Video, you will spend a year developing your practice towards the production of a short film as either documentary or narrative fiction. Working alongside other students on the course as well as in the LAB, the course focuses on the practical, analytical and creative aspects of filmmaking from a range of perspectives, working as an auteur and/or in groups as appropriate to your practice. Although the progression of 'ideas' will be central to the activity, there will also be an emphasis on 'craft' skills, and professionalisation of your work. The art school has a well established history in filmmaking, ensuring a lively experience and breadth of expertise to draw upon.

Assessment
This is by learning agreements, evidence of practice, learning record and presentation.

Graduates
Many work as self-employed artists, photographers and film makers and continue in higher education teaching or research, or in planning and curatorial positions in cultural institutions and creative industries.