MA Producing
- London, United Kingdom
- Berlin, Germany
MA
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* we accept applications and offer places on a rolling basis throughout the year
Key Summary
About: MA Producing at MetFilm School trains entrepreneurial screen producers in creative development, physical production, and business and finance for film, TV, and online media. It teaches budgeting, production management, raising finance, idea development, and pitching, and fosters interdisciplinary teamwork via group productions, networking, guest tutors, festival visits, and real briefs to build a professional profile and industry contacts.
Career Outcomes: MetFilm prioritizes employability via MetFilm Futures, placements with MetFilm Production, mentoring and festivals. Graduates work across screen industries in roles such as Producers, Editors, Screenwriters, Directors, Camera Assistants, VFX Artists, TV Assistant Producers, Script Editors, On-Air Producers, Campaign Managers.
The MA Producing course offers students a unique opportunity to develop the necessary skills to become the next generation of entrepreneurs in the screen business world. The programme aims to provide insight into, and mastery of, creative development, physical production, and business and finance in relation to the creative screen industries.
The producing course is designed to be skill specific (budgeting, production management, raising finance, idea development, pitching) and interdisciplinary (group productions, brainstorming, team building). Threaded through the programme are opportunities for you to meet and collaborate with students on complementary pathways and to build your own professional profile. We want you not only to understand your own role, but to get the bigger picture – how do others think, how does industry work?
- Practical: Producers lead teams of directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, and editors on a variety of projects. Networking and pitching skills are also developed throughout the course, with students pitching to high-level film industry professionals, TV commissioning executives, and business investors.
- Comprehensive: During their time on the course, students are given opportunities to visit major film festivals and companies. Past examples include festivals like the Berlinale, Cannes, or London, and companies such as Disney, World Productions, Sky Television, Channel 5, and The Imaginarium.
- Industry-facing: Some of our guest tutors have included: Victoria Pile (Creator – Green Wing), Tony Orsten (CEO – The Imaginarium), Dr. Jo Twist (CEO – UKIE), Zai Bennett (Managing Director, Content – Sky Channels) and Caroline Levy (Director of Current Drama, BBC Television).
- Real-life Experience: Students find and produce content for external industry clients, with previous examples including HM Treasury, Transport for London, Time Out, Nespresso, DHL, Mind, and Stonewall.
The overview below is not a complete list of MA Producing modules. For the complete list, please download the full Course Specification on our website.
Producing Craft and Industry
During the early weeks of the module you will work with students from other pathways to make a short video using a camera phone based on something that you want to say. Using the video as a starting point you will evidence your developing understanding of content, industry and audiences, to pitch a feature film or television project to an industry panel.
Financing Film and Television
You will gain insight into the commissioning and financing of film and television projects including the different types of money available, and the increasing convergence between film and television investment in the era of the streamers.
Professional Profile
You will develop authentic and detailed career paperwork and supporting materials including a CV and personal profile. As part of the module you will be offered Elective Upskilling sessions – opportunities to develop screen industry skills outside of your chosen discipline or as part of your multi-skilling profile.
Production Management and Practical Production
This module aims to synthesise the knowledge and skills gained from previous modules by bringing students from all disciplines together to work collaboratively in teams to create and deliver screen content for a range of external clients. Unlike the collaborations of the first module, here producing students lead all teams, using industry-standard production models to gain first-hand understanding of how the creative producer operates on a production.
Creative Business Models and Methods
As part of your deepening awareness of producing and industry, this module synthesises the knowledge and skills already gained towards understanding how businesses are created and developed within the creative media sector.
Practice-based Research
Building on the work of previous and concurrent modules, you will gain a deeper insight into current theories, principles, and discussions relating to issues of diversity, sustainability, and ethics within the screen industries.
Final Project and Career Plan
Your project is an opportunity to deliver work that is distinctive, industry-aware, based in research and reflects awareness of a diverse and inclusive world. You will also present your career plan, including evidence of new skills to be assessed by industry employers as you prepare to enter or re-enter the screen industries on graduation.
Why take the course?
Studying MA Producing at MetFilm School allows students to fast-track their creative careers and gain a job in today’s ever-changing creative industries.
- Practical. Students find and produce content for external industry clients working to a professional brief. Clients have included Shell UK, Transport for London, Saatchi, Time Out, Nespresso, DHL, Mind, Mencap, Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen and Stonewall. Producers lead teams of directors, cinematographers, screenwriters and editors on both the Industry projects and Master’s Projects. Networking and pitching skills are developed throughout the course with students pitching to high-level film industry professionals, TV commissioning executives and business investors.
- Get Employed. Since this course launched in 2014, 100% of graduates have gone on to work in the screen industries at a range of organisations or have launched their own companies. Employers of our graduates include BBC Studios, Paramount Pictures, Firecracker Films, Knucklehead, All3 Media, The Eureau, HBO and Netflix. Find out more about our alumni's success.
- Immerse yourself in the industry. During their time on the course, students have given opportunities to visit a major film festivals including Berlinale, Cannes, London or Sheffield Doc Fest, as well as companies such as Disney, Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One, AMVBBDO, ShoeBox Films, Avalon TV, Channel 5, World Productions, The Imaginarium, and Rattling Stick. View student work.
- Industry-Facing. Some of our guest tutors have included: Victoria Pile (Creator – Green Wing), Tony Orsten (CEO – The Imaginarium), Paul Brazier (Chairman – AMVBBDO), Dr Jo Twist (CEO – UKIE), Christopher Bingham (Vlogger -YouTube), Lucy Banks (Head of Content Solutions; Brand Solutions & Innovation – Google), Jo Strevens (Executive Producer – Carnival Films), Zai Bennett (Managing Director, Content – Sky Channels), Priscilla Parish (Executive Producer, World Productions), and Caroline Levy, (Director of Current Drama, BBC Television). Learn more about our Guest Tutors.
Your success is our priority
From the very first day at MetFilm School, we concentrate on employability. Students and graduates of MetFilm School will gain access to our dedicated careers advice department MetFilm Futures, which focuses on supporting you and ensuring you develop the skills needed to succeed in the industry.
MetFilm Production, our sister production company, offers 3-4 housework experience placements per year for MetFilm School graduates. Selected graduates work in a variety of capacities on all of MetFilm Production’s films such as award-winning The Reason I Jump, 23 Walks and Swimming with Men.
Our graduates work across the industry as Producers, Editors, Screenwriters, Directors, Camera Assistants, VFX Artists, TV Assistant Producers, Script Editors, On-Air Producers, Campaign Managers and many more besides. Below are just some of the companies they’ve gone on to work for.
