MA Post Production Editing

Course details On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry. Core units Approaches to Editing: Gain professional, industry-standard skills in planning and completing edits under different conditions and time restraints. By working on individual projects and collaborating with students on the MA Directing Film & Television course, you'll develop creative skills. You'll also complete the AVID Media Composer 101 Editing Essentials qualification. Narrative Constructions: Establishing a social, cultural and intellectual context for production work on the course, in combination with the other practical and professional skills taught, this unit offers a critical foundation for the effective realisation of production work. You'll collectively engage with narrative theory in a critical and analytical forum. Developing Editing Principles & Practice: Develop industry-level thinking and practice as an editor through collaborative projects and a programme of negotiated independent practice-based research and experimentation. This unit is where you'll find your voice as an editor and explore, challenge and extend the language of montage and the professional practice of creative collaboration. There will be group discussions, critiques, workshops and screenings. Professional Practice: An introduction to key concepts, skills and knowledge you'll need for employment in the media industries. Option units (choose one)* The Master's Production Project: This is where you can create a calling card for the industry, showing your editorial approach, style and storytelling ability. You'll develop a brief through negotiating with a tutor, and research an aspect of editing that links with narrative and produce edited material. This is about exploring and developing ideas beyond industrial expectations. Collaborating with MA Directing and Producing students is recommended as these courses, along with Editing, form a tight group of disciplines where collaboration benefits everyone. The Master's Research Project: You can produce a practice-based research artefact supported by a written analysis, or an individually or collaboratively-written paper. The latter consists of a written investigation into an aspect of practice, supported by media artefacts. Whichever option you choose, you'll present your findings at a final exhibition. *Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year. Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for Post Production Editing. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.