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Directing Digital Film and Television – (M.A.)
Bournemouth University
The Media School
| Location: | Bournemouth / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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We believe that study at postgraduate level is about developing key intellectual and practical skills that not only match industry expectations but also challenge current practice, constantly striving to develop new approaches and techniques. This course is aimed at those with experience of authoring moving image work, either in the industry or during undergraduate study.
At the centre of the creative process of television and digital film is the role of the director. Someone with a sense of vision, a motivator of cast and crew, a mentor and facilitator, a communicator, a problem solver, a collaborator, and a visual storyteller. This course has been designed to build and develop your knowledge of the industry, your story telling skills, your technical understanding, and your knowledge of ethics and regulation, informed by current debates. Our collaborative learning environment is pitched to ensure students work in simulations of industry practice, underpinned by theoretical knowledge. It is this mixture of the practical and the theoretical that ensures our students graduate as lifelong learners, and as "reflective practitioners".
The Media School has developed a portfolio of courses that are recognised by industry for their high-quality and graduate employability. The portfolio has been designed to facilitate students working with other related disciplines, including MA Writing for the Media, MA Post Production Editing, MA Producing Film and Television, MA Soundtrack, MA Computer Animation and Visualisation.
Students on the course use High Definition broadcast Sony cameras, audio mixers, lighting kits, monitors, dolly and tracking. Students have a base room which provides a production office environment for planning work and seminars, shared with MA Producing Film and Television students. The facilities of the Media School facilitate high-level learning and application of skills.
The Media School has strong links with industry, through our track record of graduate employment and Skillset accreditation. The course itself has been designed in consultation with industry directors (our graduates included) and a range of visiting speakers will regularly feature in the course, providing a critical cutting edge to the work you will be producing.
Contents
Approaches to Directing Fiction
This unit provides students with the skills and competencies required for directing contemporary drama, including effective planning and pre-visualisation, working with others, developing directorial flair and style, and overseeing the required post production process. Students develop technical production skills to learn about digital cinematography and work in various production roles in each others productions. Students plan and direct various sequences and styles of single-camera production, working with students on MA Post Production Editing to complete assignments to their satisfaction.
Story, Plot and Narrative
This unit establishes a social, cultural and intellectual context for production work on the course. In combination with the other practical and professional provision provided, it offers a strong critical foundation for the effective realisation of production work. Teaching enables students to engage collectively with narrative theory in a critical and analytical forum.
Production Management
This unit aims to enable the students to synthesise the critical, conceptual, managerial and professional skills and understandings required for managing production artefacts as a production manager, location manager and first assistant director. Students on the course work alongside MA Producing Film and Television students to plan and produce projects following prescribed production management processes.
Cross-Platform Practice
The media industry is constantly changing! This unit aims to ensure students graduate with a set of skills to enable them to prosper and succeed in the industry. Students study the current debates and trends in the industry in relation to cross-platform commissioning and production. Students will evaluate a range of theoretical and practical tools by applying them to brands that can be explored and exploited across different media platforms.
The Masters Production Project
All the other taught areas of the course are in preparation for this unit: the Masters Production Project. This is where you can create a calling card for the industry - evidence of what your directorial approach, style and storytelling. Students each plan and shoot a project, the nature of which is negotiated with a tutor. Taking advantage of the Media Schools collaborative environment, you can work with MA Writing for the Media students to develop exciting and fresh drama scripts for you to shoot. Also, you can work with MA Producing students, and MA Post Production Editing students, all to the benefit of the story you are telling.
The Masters Research Project
As an alternative to the Masters Production Project, students can choose a research-focussed option, where they produce either a practice-based research artefact supported by a written analysis, or an individual, or collaboratively written paper. This option consists of a written investigation into an aspect of practice, supported by media artefacts. Both practice-based research and research papers will be the basis of a presentation of research findings at a final exhibition.
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Entry requirements: One year's industry experience or a recent relevant degree (involving the practice of making moving-image content) Preferred subjects: Television Production, Video Production, Interactive Media Production, Scriptwriting, Music Design, Journalism, Advertising If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.5 (Academic) overall and 6.0 in all other components.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
Accreditation
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the UK government’s teaching quality watchdog, awarded us the highest category of confidence in our academic standards.
Many of our courses are accredited by professional and industry bodies, which means our courses are readily recognised by employers, and our graduates have professional membership or status when they compete on the job market.
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