BA (Hons) - Film and Television (with integrated foundation year)

Year one

The foundation year gives you extra time to develop your experience and confidence, studying a broad range of media in a way that is designed to prepare you for the BA (Hons) Film and Television degree.

We ensure that you are taught how to focus your studies at undergraduate level, ensuring not only that you have the skills you need, but also the right mental attitude for further study.

• Media in Context
  Explore key theoretical frameworks and debates relating to modern media texts and media based practice.
• Professional Practices
  Develop an understanding of the structures applicable to a range of media organisations, fully exploring their diversity and viability.
• Media Narratives
  Explore approaches to fiction and non-fiction narratives in reference to a variety of media forms.
• Published Media Products
  Develop conceptual, practical and technical awareness, at an introductory level, of the production phases for print and online material.
• TV and Film Production
  An introduction to the basic technologies and production processes involved in television and digital film production.
• Student Initiated Photographic Project
  An introduction into, and the experience of, using traditional and contemporary technical photographic processes.

Year two

You are introduced to a broad range of skills which will benefit your future projects, including TV studio production, script-writing, lighting, camera operation, shot choice, composition, location sound recording, producing, directing and a host of other relevant skills and technique.

• Media Craft Skills
  Develop an understanding and working knowledge of a range of key technical skills in the media production making process.
• Lens and Edit Craft
  Introduction to projects and tasks that give you a focused working knowledge of key technical skills in film and TV, and professional photographic production, postproduction, and disciplinary practices and processes.
• Cultural Contexts
  Introduction to the cultural, historical, and social contexts in which creative work from a range of disciplines will be discussed, examined, and analysed.
• Applied Storytelling
  Introduction to the technologies and production processes involved in Film and Television production, promoting an understanding of the research techniques underpinning dramatic scripted fictional and non-scripted factual productions.
• Collaborative Practice
  Explore professional scenarios through problem-solving and project-based learning.

Year three

You will start to specialise and build on your technical & creative skill set through a range of production and large scale projects, including advanced script-writing, TV production, cinematography, experimental film, documentary, and short film.

• On Set
  Work on a series of full Film & TV productions to study single and multi-camera work.
• Scene Craft
  Tackle creative and professional challenges with space for experimentation and production of visual work, narrative, ideas, and concepts.
• Script and Narrative
  Introduction you to the concepts and techniques employed in writing for a variety of media forms.
• Unscripted TV Idea and Concept
  Explore the creative and professional challenges in designing ideas, presentations, and pitches for unscripted television, factual programming, documentary films and digital production commissions.
• Professional Development
  Explore career attributes, ambitions, and trajectory within the context of an evolving ‘professional development portfolio’.

Year four

All your acquired knowledge, creative technique, and skills will be focused on professional production, putting into practice all you have learned in the creation and exhibiting of award-winning, festival-ready work.

• Research Portfolio
  
• Promotion and Pitch
  Prepare to engage with creative industries and external audiences through the promotion of media professionalism, self-confidence, collaboration, and team strategies.
• Graduate Project
  Consolidate the practical and conceptual skills developed throughout the course into one final project.
• Festival and Exhibition
  Perfect the skills necessary to identify and successfully engage with media industries post-graduation.