Film and Television Production – (M.A.)

Contents

The first semester develops the necessary enabling skills and understanding for progression to the developmental work of the second semester, which in turn leads to the dissertation.

Compulsory Units

* Aesthetic and Narrative Forms and Conventions
* Basic Techniques and Skills in Screen-based Communication
* Critical and Practical Engagement with Screen Culture
* Processes in the Conceptualisation and Development of Production

Optional Units

These are taught by active practitioners from within the Department and the media industries and cover:

* Writing
* Directing
* Producing
* Cinematography
* Editing
* Sound
* Production Design
* Screen Forms and Practices

Each student may choose up to two of the above, as well as from a range of other units offered in the Faculty, depending on availability. In order to ensure maximal quality, numbers on some of the above units are limited. The optional units should be seen as supportive rather than specialist. However, all students will, by the end of the programme, have achieved a broad and sustainable understanding of the film-making process.

Dissertation

The dissertation normally has a large practical component, centered on the collaborative production of short fiction and documentary films for public exhibition. You are also required to submit individual critical work at a suitably advanced level in the form of a written analysis. Other possible options for the dissertation are:

* an extended research essay, or
* an industrial placement leading to a written analysis, or
* a practice-based project undertaken within a research paradigm and presented with a supporting discussion as a piece of research.