Film Production at Staffordshire University - UCAS

Course summary

Do you want to see your story ideas on the big screen or produce inspiring content for your favourite brands or musicians? Our intensive film and media production course will give you the expertise to influence and inspire future audience and turn your passion for film and media into a successful career. Our multi award winning film production course aims to develop your creative, practical, and technical filmmaking skills and enable you to link theory to your practice. This course is practice focused, so you’ll learn about film production by making films. Working as a multi-disciplinary practitioner your will learn how to research, develop, write, produce, direct, shoot, edit and promote your own short films. You’ll engage with practical film production projects and build a portfolio of creative work that supports your future career aspirations. You’ll join a creative community of students who are passionate about developing careers in the film and media production industry. You’ll work collaboratively across the Department of Media, Performance and Communication, fulfilling key crew roles on creative projects and broadening your film making experience. You can tailor your filmmaking practice and specialise on a chosen field including short drama and documentary films, music videos, experimental films, branded content, and client based commercial projects. You’ll get hands on with industry leading film production equipment right from your first week of your course. Much of your time will be spent working on location or in our professional film production studios and post-production facilities.

Modules

Year One Core: Creative Film Contexts; Fiction Filmmaking; Film and Media Professional Development; Non-Fiction Filmmaking Year Two Core: Client Filmmaking; Creative Filmmaking; Professional Filmmaking Practice Year Two Optional: Global Cinema; Production Cultures; Science Fiction Film and Media Year Three Core: Filmmaking Project 1; Filmmaking Project 2; Industry Research Project; Media Employment Project

Assessment method

Assessment is based on experiential learning and the submission of coursework, the nature of which is determined by the project/s or assignment/s set within a module, but which may consist of any one or combination of the following components:An essay or report, written according to given guidelines as to word-count and illustrated as required by the assignment The script for a seminar presentation, or the presentation itself Ideas books, photo study books, sketchbooks or visual diaries, documenting the process of generating, developing and resolving thoughts or ideas, and demonstrating the influence of research on practical work Production files, Research books, folders, or dossiers, documenting the gathering, sorting and presentation of research material based on the production process Finished Media/Film based artefacts, professionally presented in the format required by the assignment, project or brief


How to apply

Application codes

Course code:
W600
Institution code:
S72
Campus name:
Staffordshire University (Stoke Campus)
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements


Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
80%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
90%
Go onto work and study

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Channel Islands £9250 Year 1
EU £16750 Year 1
International £16750 Year 1

Additional fee information

For further details of what is and is not included in your tuition fees please visit www.staffs.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees/
Film Production at Staffordshire University - UCAS