Course Overview

This degree explores the creative and technical aspects of film making within a wide variety of settings. With an emphasis on hands-on training, you will have access to our industry standard digital cameras and film production equipment, enabling you to learn the processes and techniques to ensure that the projects you work on and the visions you imagine, can become realities for multiple platforms.

Designed to develop the next generation of filmmakers, you will gain the essential skills and knowledge working independently and collaboratively on factual and fictional productions allowing you to graduate with a high technical skill set to hit the ground running on any film set around the world.

All of your progress is carefully guided and expanded by individual tutorial support, ensuring that you create pieces of work to be showcased in your all-important portfolio.

Learn

• The principles of film production and visual techniques
• Industry-standard workflows and equipment
• In small classes
• Through individual practical time
• From industry professionals
• Visual and film language and the aesthetics of storytelling
• How the social and cultural contexts influence filmmakers
• How storytelling works today with all the technology changing
• How to manage pre-production: break down a script, scout locations, create a schedule and budget for different productions (Short films, feature films, documentary, TV Commercials, and Music clips)
• How to write a script
• Direct a scene
• Light and shoot a scene
•  Edit picture and sound
• Work on a Final thesis film

By doing

• Practice in industry-standard post-production studios
• Complete a series of assignments to build your visual, technical, and artistic skills   
• Get feedback every step of the way on all your assignments
• In a creative hub collaborating with students from other disciplines

Succeed

• Graduate with a professional portfolio that shows your technical and artistic abilities
• Our fast track courses allow you to enter the workplace quicker with the most up-to-date skills
• With the confidence to forge your own path to your dream career
• Join our Alumni Hall of Fame which includes Oscar, BAFTA, and Grammy award winners
• Understanding of the fundamental components of visual storytelling, story structure, and story analysis.
•  Implement the functions and roles on a film set and can work collaboratively on any high production:
  

  • ·       Through closely-mentored projects demonstrate technical proficiency in a specific filmmaking discipline (Directing, Editing, Cinematography, Sound Design, Producing, and Production Design).

  • ·       Through critical essays, writing assignments, and visual production exercises, demonstrate an understanding of the development of film language, including aesthetic perspectives.

   

Our graduates finish with skill-sets covering not only the foundational areas of traditional filmmaking but wider concepts of the future of film distribution and viewing standards. Not only do our graduates finish with a work portfolio that presents their skills, but they also find their individual creative directions. Students also graduate with an understanding of how to navigate the future of film and media as it adapts and evolves with the changing times.

QUALIFICATION
Bachelor of Film Production