BA (Hons) Film Production
BA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: You’ll study practical filmmaking and film analysis at The University of Salford’s MediaCity campus. The BA (Hons) Film Production covers directing, producing, cinematography, camera, screenwriting, sound design, editing and production design. You’ll make and edit short films with high-end cameras and software like AVID, ProTools. Led by industry practitioners, the course uses collaborative projects, accreditation and entrepreneurial skills to prepare you for the creative sector.
Career Outcomes: Graduates work in directing, camera, sound, editing, producing and screenwriting. You'll gain transferable skills for broadcast, online and digital creative roles. Career opportunities include film production, cinematography, audio, post-production and content creation.
Are you a budding Spielberg or DuVernay? Or perhaps you’re an aspiring young professional with a passion for camerawork, scriptwriting, and audio production, or have the desire to make your film concepts a reality through teamwork on a production set? Wherever your passions lie, this BA (Hons) Film Production degree will equip you with the tools you need to take your first step into the professional film industry.
Our Film Production degree course is about learning to tell engaging stories through filmmaking. You will make and edit short films using high-end cameras and editing at our state-of-the-art campus situated in the heart of MediaCity, the country’s biggest creative media cluster.
As part of your Film Production degree, you’ll develop key filmmaking skills including directing, producing and editing, as well as writing for the screen, sound design, cinematography and production design. You will also learn key theories in film analysis which will help inform, inspire and contextualise your creative output. Through your degree, you will be engaging with collaborative projects designed to provide you with the professional skills you need to launch your creative career.
This degree is designed and led by industry practitioners. As part of your learning, you will have the opportunity to gain professional accreditation in multiple areas – for example, at the moment we offer accreditation in AVID and Protools. Based at MediaCity, there is a strong emphasis on preparing you for employment and entrepreneurial endeavour, helping you to contextualise your creative output and gain experience that will provide instant value to future employers.
You will:
- Study at our state-of-the-art digital media campus at MediaCity, in close proximity to professional film producers and broadcasters
- Gain hands-on experience while working on collaborative film projects and developing your own work ready for public display
- Choose from a wide variety of module options, from cinematography to scriptwriting and directing
This is for you if...
- You are passionate about filmmaking and want to develop your skills in any area of film production/
- You have a creative and professional mindset.
- You want to gain the hands-on experience needed to launch a professional career in Film Production.
So, what do our Film Production courses at university involve? You’ll begin with an introduction to a broad range of Film Production techniques, collaborating with your fellow students by working in groups to create films in a range of styles. You’ll learn how to work your concepts into compelling high-quality film stories, applying your skills in different areas of filmmaking to bring your ideas to life. Whether you choose to film on campus or on location, you’ll learn how to plan and run shoots, direct shoots, get the best out of your camera, sound and lighting kits and how edit and grade. You’ll also learn key concepts in critical film theory and explore and analyse the evolution of film.
As your bachelor’s degree in Film Production progresses, you’ll quickly engage with the strong emphasis throughout the course on preparing for employment after graduation or engaging further in our MA in Film Production. Your final trimester is dedicated to enabling you to make a film to showcase your strengths to the industry.
In the second year, you build further on your filmmaking skills with longer and more challenging assignments and have the chance to develop your own creative interests with a choice of options from post-production sound to experimental filmmaking. The optional module in Professional Film Practice encourages you to start developing your professional networks and build your CV and showreel content for your own website.
In your final year, you will develop your chosen specialist interests to an advanced level, collaborate and innovate in producing film projects that cross traditional boundaries and work on a major project of your own choosing to create a film that will be your calling card to the industry. You will also be encouraged to think about challenging your learned skills and interests by staying on for another year to do the MA in Film Production.
Year one
- Introduction to Filmmaking
- Introduction to Film Analysis
- Introduction to Film Theory
- Cinematic Practice and Production
- Introduction to Producing and Directing
- Storytelling for Screen
Year two
- Film Making Practice
- Film Production
Optional modules may include:
- Global Cinema 1 and 2
- Professional Film Practice
- Sound Practice for Production
- Editing Film
- Scriptwriting for Film
- Cinematography
- Producing and Directing
- Documentary Film: Theory and Practice
- Production Design: Tools and Processes
- Post Production Sound
- University Wide Language Programme
- Experimental Filmmaking
Year three
- Final Dissertation
- Final Film Project
You will select one of the above options for your final project and will then do either of the following Core subjects depending on which option you choose.
- Film and Ideology: Contemporary Cinema- Core subject if you are doing a Dissertation
- Final Film Project: Preparation – Core subject if you are doing the Final Film Project
- Final Film Project: Preparation
- British TV Fictions– Dissertation Only
- Lighting for Camera
- Hollywood Masculinities-Dissertation Only
- Production Design: Design for Narrative
- Film and Theory– Dissertation Only
- Transmedia Storyworlds– Dissertation Only
- Advanced Sound Design
- Film Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition
- Directing for Fiction
- 21st Century Factual TV – Dissertation Only
- Advanced Editing
- University Wide Language Programme
- Advanced Scriptwriting
Achieving a Film Production degree will mean you’re well-equipped with the technical and creative skills you need to work in the film and wider creative industries. Recent graduates of this course have established successful careers in many aspects of Film Production, from directing and camerawork to audio and post-production. You’ll also develop transferable skills that will serve you in other areas of broadcast and online media, as well as the digital creative sector more widely.
