BA (Hons) Film and Television Production
Bradford, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 24,456 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international / home: GBP 9,250
Introduction
Studying this industry-accredited course will enable you to develop as a highly skilled and experienced professional with a comprehensive understanding of the Film and Television industries.
You will be taught by a team of expert lecturers who remain industry-active and will share their knowledge with you and give you a clear insight into the realities of working within Film and Television.
You will be introduced to the creative and technical aspects of single-camera and multi-camera filmmaking and television production, supported by film and media theory to inform your practice. And you will learn how to generate and develop ideas and adopt a creative approach to your work.
During the second and third years of the course, there are a range of specialist options available to enable you to explore your areas of interest. There is also the option to study abroad at a partner university or to do a placement in industry on the four-year version of the course.
In your final year, you will undertake a major bespoke production project, where you will be able to collaborate with other disciplines and put your learning into practice, whilst showcasing your expertise developed through the course.
Throughout the course, you will benefit from a range of opportunities that will enrich your learning and advance your knowledge base. This includes collaborations with broadcasters such as the BBC and workshops and talks from award-winning professionals like Peter Suschitzky (Director of Photography, The Empire Strikes Back) and Lisa Holdsworth (TV writer, Call the Midwife, Midsomer Murders).
This degree programme is part of Screen Yorkshire’s Connected Campus Universities Group, an initiative designed to equip students with the essential skills required to thrive in a contemporary film and television environment. This specialist input helps ensure that you graduate with the necessary competencies for a successful career in this rapidly paced-industry.
Professional accreditation
This course is accredited by ScreenSkills, the sector skills council for the creative industries.
Admissions
Curriculum
What you will study
All module information is for 2023 entry and is subject to change.
First-year
- Editing
- Moving Image Production
- Stories and The Screen
- Soundscapes
- Multi-Camera Broadcasting
- Story and Scriptwriting
Second year
- British Film and Television Fiction
- Drama Production
- Factual Film and Television
- Factual Production
Final year
Core
- Group Project
- Individual Project
Option
- Experimental Filmmaking
- Practices of Representation
- Digital Compositing and Post Production
- Motion Capture
Learning and assessment
Students will experience a wide range of teaching and learning environments. Concepts, principles and theories are generally explored in formal lectures and practised in associated tutorials, seminars and directed reading groups.
Practical skills are developed in workshop and studio sessions. Professional and personal skills are developed through presentations, discussion and small-scale project work which involves problem-solving and design exercises.
For each 20-credit module, students are required to commit 200 hours. The weighting of how this time is managed varies from module to module; some will involve many formal contact hours (time spent with the tutor) and others more independent study (self-managed under the guidance of the tutor).
As the student progresses, the amount of independent study increases as the programme becomes more project-based. During Stage 1 all the basic principles, concepts and technical skills are introduced. By Stage 2 students are required to take a more analytic approach and demonstrate their practical skills through project work. Stage 3 allows students to synthesise and critically review the knowledge, understanding and skills previously acquired through both contextual work and a major practical project
Career Opportunities
Career prospects
This course will prepare you for a career in film and television production in research, content creation, scriptwriting, camera, sound, lighting, editing, studio and location management, production management, producing and directing or you may prefer to continue your studies on our Master's course in Digital Filmmaking. Graduates have also gone into teacher training.
Our graduates have gone on to work in the UK and overseas for organisations including the BBC, Sky, ITV, Thames Television, Channel Four, Home Box Office, Endemol, the National Media Museum, Warner Brothers, MGM, True North Productions, MTV and many others. Our graduates have worked on hit TV shows including Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Big Brother, Emmerdale, BBC Look North and BBC Reporting Scotland as well as blockbuster movies including War Horse, The King's Speech, The Theory of Everything, Skyfall and all of the Harry Potter films.
Career support
The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the Careers website.
Discussing options with specialist advisers helps to clarify plans through exploring options and refining skills of job-hunting. In most of our programmes, there is direct input by Career Development Advisers into the curriculum or through specially arranged workshops.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
Every year we award numerous non-repayable scholarships to UK, EU and international students based on academic excellence, personal circumstances or economic hardship.