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Film and Media Production – (M.A.)
Sheffield Hallam University
Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 7,403 - ≈ € 14,478 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Sheffield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 18 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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This course gives students maximum practical experience in minimum time. It is an intensive, production based course and you will work on at least four films, usually more, over an 18 month period. The course focuses on independent cinema: innovative narrative fiction, ground breaking documentary and experimental film and media production for cinema and galleries.
This course gives a unique opportunity to work across fiction, documentary and experimental media. We designed it to reflect the changing needs of broadcast television and to encourage experimentation and cross-fertilisation between different technologies and conventions. It produces students who are professionally able and well-informed and who can enter the film and television industries with a freshness of approach to changing technologies and the cinematic ideas that they embrace.
Staff are from all sections of the media industry and represent broadcast and non-broadcast practices. Many of our staff are independent broadcast television film/video-makers and aim to promote a vigorous and viable industry outside London. Our work and strategy are directly guided by what the industry needs.
We emphasise the creative and conceptual elements of a skill area in a clear distinction from industrial training. Technical proficiency is taught in relation to the concepts and possibilities of a particular skill which can be used to create meaning through sound and images.
We are looking for students who want to create original, challenging and brave projects for independent cinema, television and galleries. The course welcomes a vibrant mix of students both nationally and internationally. We aim to facilitate the dynamic interrelationship of different cultural traditions, traditional and emerging screen technologies and classical and non-traditional cinematic genres.
We aim to produce students who are both professionally able and well informed and who can enter the film and television industries with a freshness of approach to both changing technologies and the cinematic ideas they embrace.
Many of our students have been successful in getting jobs both in the industry and independent cinemas.
Contents
Postgraduate certificate
* post-production
* cinematography
* location and post-production sound
* research/scripting for fiction and documentary
* producing/production management
* screenwriting
* direction: fiction, documentary, and experimental, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary production
You specialise in two skill areas, which you decide at admission.
Postgraduate diploma
Semesters one and two make up the postgraduate diploma part of the course. We designed this to further develop your production skills, including skills associated with critical thinking, self-evaluation and the evaluation of audiovisual material.
We structure each semester around workshops and critical theory seminars, followed by production.
MA
During an extended semester of 24 weeks, you carry out a self-directed programme of work, which you negotiate with your course leader and relevant tutors - this is your learning agreement.
We expect you to work primarily in self-selected groups, contributing substantially to each production. Script proposal selection is competitive and made by a course production board. We encourage you to seek outside funding and distribution for this work and to work in partnership with outside agencies, but this is not a requirement.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
We encourage applications from an international field of potential candidates. To be considered for the course we expect you to have basic skills in your chosen options. We also expect all European applicants selected for consideration to attend an interview.
Selection will be determined by
* range of appropriate experience
* quality of showreel - particularly in the expression of ideas
* a flexible approach to learning
* evidenced enthusiasm and interest in the particular philosophy of the course
Normally you will need one of the following * an honours degree in an area of film and television production
* an honours degree in a related discipline
* relevant media or cultural industry experience plus appropriate evidence of preparation for the course, for example a showreel, a production portfolio, scripts or treatments
If English is not your first language you normally need an IELTS score of at least 6.5.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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