Master

In Belfast City

£ 4,000 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Belfast city (Northern Ireland)

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Overview: Film is the most important mass medium and art form of modern times. Shaping our modes of perception and communication, it is popular in its appeal and radical in its practices. It has transformed our ways of seeing and storytelling. Filmmaking and criticism is an area of immense interest, pleasure, and creativity. Supported by state-of-the-art new film teaching and production facilities, the MA in Film and Visual Studies at Queen's aims to offer a rich, diverse curriculum designed to enable students to specialise in practice-based and critical approaches to film, and other media arts. In particular, students will develop skills in the analysis of film and media arts and apply these skills in the production of creative projects, and critical work. Throughout the programme, students will acquire basic or enhanced film production skills. They will also acquire transferable skills valued by employers: creative thinking, verbal and visual communication, problem solving, project management, and teamwork. Click here to view our course handbook.  Why Queen's? State-of-the-art digital production and post-production facilities, as well as substantial lighting and grips kits, and a new purpose-built 'black box', giving students the opportunity to film in a multi-purpose, professionally equipped studio. Strong contacts with the local film and broadcast industry, enabling us to organise regular meetings with industry professionals, workshops, and placements for students interested in a career in film and the creative industries. We are an Avid Learning Partner, and Film students are offered the opportunity to become certified in the use of both Media Composer video editing and Pro Tools audio editing, an industry qualification and valuable addition to any CV. Screenings, lectures, and seminars are held in Screen 2 of the Drama and Film Centre - the...

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Location

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Belfast City (County Antrim)
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University Road, BT7 1NN

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Normally a 2.1 Honours degree or above or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences or a cognate discipline. A 2.2 Honours degree or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University may be considered if an applicant can demonstrate recent professional/exhibition experience in filmmaking, photography, or video arts, subject to portfolio submission and interview. Admission under the Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL) may be considered for this course. Please...

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Subjects

  • Project
  • Production
  • Industry
  • Art
  • Media
  • Communication Training
  • Teaching

Course programme

Course Details

Students will take a number of compulsory and optional modules, a sample of which are listed below:

Compulsory:

  • Major Creative Project or Dissertation (Double weighted)
  • Postgraduate Training: 'Making Knowledge Work'
  • Research Methods in Critical and Creative Practice

Optional:

  • Cinema, History, Memory
  • Film Censorship, Regulation, and Audiences
  • Film Industries and Digital Cultures
  • Film Practice Workshops and Project Development
  • Photographic Practice
  • Political Film: Form and Conflict
  • Screenwriting

Assessment & Feedback

The range of assessment methods includes written assignments, presentations, and reports as well as practice-based exercises and projects. These tasks culminate in the dissertation/major creative project, which is assessed as follows:

Creative Project: a short film accompanied by a written component theorising the work (not exceeding 5,000 words), or other creative project agreed with programme convenor and designated supervisor (for example, a script, exhibition, or relevant creative industry placement).

Or

Critical Project (Written): Project topic to be agreed with programme convenor and designated supervisor, (not exceeding 15,000 words).

Learning and Teaching

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Additional information

This MA programme provides a qualification and professional development opportunities ideally suited to a career in film, television and other moving-image and broadcast media. It is also popular with students intending to or already working in education, research, and the wider creative industries sector. Recent graduates from this programme have gone on to work as script editors, assistant producers, programme researchers, schedule coordinators, and teaching posts in Film and Moving Image Arts. Queen's postgraduates reap...

Film

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