Wildlife Filmmaking - MA/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

The full master's course comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Master's. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

The course is practical and production-based. During the year, students will produce a series of projects.

• Creating the Story - Explores the art and science of storytelling. Teaches you the writing skills to produce films that are both distinctive and commercial.
• Mastering the Business - Gives a solid introduction to the business and production of wildlife films.
• Preparing for Production - Guides you through the production process for your final film, exploring research and development, editorial specification and pitching.
• Future Documentary - Explores how to produce wildlife stories for a range of new and emerging multi-media platforms.
• Professional production - An extended 3-6 month production module, where you will undertake your own creative project and showcase your portfolio of skills. This bespoke module will be largely self-directed, supported by tutorials and sessions with an industry mentor.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

The main teaching will take place in seminars and in workshops focused around the University's creative media centre at its Bower Ashton campus (see Study Facilities). You will also benefit from BBC visits, real-life filming experiences and allied conferences and external events.

All our teaching is informed by the latest industry developments, with valuable industry insight thinking on business developments from professional practitioners.

You will also have access to the resources and expertise of the Digital Cultures Research Centre and the region's leading media innovation lab, the Pervasive Media Studio, based in the city's Watershed Media Centre. Strong connections with Wildscreen and local NGOs provide further resources around the wider landscape of wildlife, conservation and sustainability.

For more details see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

This intensive and rigorous year long course is delivered as full time only and runs from September to September.

Modules are assessed by a range of submissions including portfolios of work together with films and production work. The first two semesters drive your skills and learning towards your final natural history production which must be of professional standard with appropriate documentation and matching industry standard deliverables.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.