Post Production Editing – (M.A.)

Graduate from the UK’s only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and a recognised Skillset Media Academy.

This 12 month Masters degree aims to develop your creative skills, techniques and collaborative approaches to become a successful post production editor ready for employment in today’s evolving media industry.

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 in post production and particularly in editing. Alternatively, you may come from the media industry and wish to broaden your skills-base and specialise in this field while undertaking a rigorous and theoretical learning experience in the post production process.

Editing is the rewarding and creative activity at the core of film and television production. Television programmes are made or lost on the cutting room floor. With a range of industry-standard technology and staff expertise, this specialist Masters in Post Production, the first of its kind in Europe, prepares students for the technical, challenging and creative world of video editing in an evolving digital marketplace.

The course units have been devised to provide the necessary multi-faceted elements that relate to the skills required for a successful editor. These include theories of narrative and storytelling, technical training in software and hardware, the practice of editing skills and techniques, collaborative working with other students, perspectives on the changing media industry and your role within it, critical analysis and research methods, and the opportunity to develop skills and a show-reel to help you find employment within this fast-changing industry.

Students are required to have their own Apple laptop with Final Cut Pro and word processing software for use on the course. We provide a state-of-the-art lab base room for the cohort, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The lab comprises work-benches for you to plug in your laptop to extend its capability: via external hard drives, a networked server for storage of rushes, monitors, and digitising decks including DVC-PRO, Mini-DV, DV-CAM, DVD and VHS. The lab also has two Avid Media Composer workstations, and a video projector with screen, DVD player, VHS player, and surround sound. Students on the course also have access to a specially designed ‘Avid Finishing Suite’, a simulation of an industry-based edit suite where role play scenarios of industry practice are performed.