MA Film Production
MA
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The MA Film Production at The University of Salford, MediaCity offers a practice-based programme focused on emerging workflows, frontier technology and experimental storytelling. You’ll study with staff and industry professionals, use industry-standard kit, and develop production, collaboration and scriptwriting skills through practical projects and reflective research.
Career Outcomes: Graduates become agile, adaptable filmmakers and in-house practitioners equipped for production, directing, cinematography, editing, production management and content development for film and media. You can pursue further academic research including doctoral (PhD) study if you develop a satisfactory proposal. Career opportunities include filmmaker, producer, editor, cinematographer, production manager and PhD researcher.
Times are changing in film production. The processes we’re used to no longer correlate with budgets, production techniques or distribution methods, but the machine hasn’t evolved along with its component parts.
The film industry needs artists who can adapt to changing production environments; and practitioners who have the ability to invent new paradigms in storytelling. If your interest in film production extends beyond the standard, and into a cutting-edge, practice-based approach by way of emerging workflows and frontier technology, then this is the course for you. You may have just finished a media production degree, have an abiding interest in telling stories and scriptwriting, or already be working in the film industry but want to gain more experimental or academic experience.
Studying at Salford’s campus in MediaCity places you in the heart of the UK’s thriving media industry. Here, you will employ a rigorous process of artistic self-analysis and reflection, while developing as a versatile and nimble filmmaker - through a discipline that views perceived limitations as opportunities for creative expansion. You will develop skills in all aspects of film production and collaboration, working on practical projects and learning from industry professionals.
You will be encouraged to engage with radical new ideas of how filmmaking processes can be led by technology, the artist, in-house teams or economic forces that reflect the future of film production – leaving the past behind.
You will:
- Be taught by specialist staff and industry professionals
- Study at our MediaCity campus - one of the UK's leading media hubs
- Use state-of-the-art, industry-standard kit
This course delivers comprehensive training linked to traditional production skills, such as directing, scriptwriting and cinematography, but it also brings these skills together with the latest industry developments. In this way, it incorporates the latest technological trends and responds to current industrial opportunities while preparing you for as yet unimaginable horizons – nurturing a creative attitude defined by professional confidence and productive playfulness.
You will become grounded in Practice as Research (PaR) as an approach to rethinking practical and academic work. By challenging your existing knowledge and experience, this programme will equip you with the skills necessary to become independent thinkers, original filmmakers and creative leaders.
MA Film Production is made up of three core 60-credit modules, taught over a 12-month period, delivered via lectures, practical studio sessions, and workshops provided by teaching staff in Film Production, and other relevant programmes at MediaCity and beyond. Formal curricular teaching will be enhanced by industry-led masterclasses and seminars.
Core modules
- Established and Innovative Practices
- Collaboration and Co-creation
- Major Project - Practical Project and Portfolio
Upon graduating you will become agile, highly adaptable, fast-thinking decision-makers and team players, ready to explore a variety of career paths within the film industry both as an independent filmmaker or in-house practitioner.
The MA will provide subject-specific knowledge and, through practice as a research approach, you may choose to develop your academic skills through PhD study and beyond.
Graduates showing strong academic and research skills can pursue a further academic research path through our doctoral (PhD) programmes on a full-time or part-time basis subject to a satisfactory proposal.
