Course summary
This MA will enhance your narrative skills as an editor of fiction for film and television.
- This Masters is a pathway of the MA Filmmaking, so that in addition to your specialised training you will collaborate with students across all specialisms on a variety of film projects.
- Experienced tutors and guests provide expert guidance designed to enhance the flow of your individual research, experimentation and artistic achievement.
- You will complete your degree by working in your specialist role on a major production in the final term.
- The programme is housed in a new purpose-built media facility equipped with state-of-the art teaching spaces including a film studio equipped with Arri lighting and Green Screen facilities.
- Goldsmiths is an Avid Learning Partner offering Editing students accredited training in Media Composer and the opportunity to certify as an Avid Media Composer Specialist. Edit suites, screening rooms and sound studios are linked via Avid’s industry standard NEXIS storage area network.
- You will work to professional standards using high-end digital formats. You will also learn sophisticated postproduction workflow techniques, gaining a wealth of experience in off-line editing and an understanding of how this fits in with on-line editing, visual effects and picture grading.
- In addition to your specialist area, you can attend classes in related disciplines. This framework is designed to stimulate collaborative practice by providing you with a breadth of filmmaking knowledge combined with a high level of expertise in your chosen filmmaking discipline.
Modules
Overview For two terms you will spend a full day a week in specialised contact with your specific programme convenor. These sessions include: Practical demonstrations and exercises Lectures Screenings Small group seminars Workshops You will also take three optional modules, taught through practical workshops and hands-on experiences, as well as critical discussion and essay writing. The third term will be taken up with your substantive Final Project and you will take part in a series of progress and feedback meetings. Group film projects You will work with other students from across the five MA Filmmaking fiction pathways to create film crews in a professional structure. This allows you to develop realistic industry experience while making work with extremely high production values. Specialist Studies You will take the following modules: Editing: Specialist Skills Contemporary Screen Narratives in Practice and Theory You will also complete a Final Project, assessed by a portfolio of work and a viva that reflects your practice Optional modules You will choose three optional modules. Examples of recent optional modules include: Social Activist Film Archaeology of the Moving Image Camera Fundamentals Film Producing Fundamentals Representing Reality Sound Design Fundamentals The Ascent of the Image Doctor Holby: Writing for Existing Continuing TV Drama Series Media Law and Ethics Practical Law for Film-makers Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Entry requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a relevant/related subject as well as a level of practical experience from work in the arts or the media. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. Because funding deadlines and requirements vary around the world, applications are considered on a rolling basis from February onwards and places on the programme fill up across the recruitment cycle. For this reason, we strongly advise you to submit your completed application as early as you can. We accept a wide range of international qualifications. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in writing and no element lower than 6.5 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
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Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW