MA Film & Television

Key Information

Duration & delivery: 1 year full-time

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,250

Overseas: £17,000

Entry requirements: A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

This exciting new course will equip you with critical, creative, and intellectual skills to change the media industries for the better, through a deep, hands-on understanding of their histories, cultures, and practices. Working alongside internationally recognised experts in documentary, horror, science fiction, crime and espionage filmmaking, you’ll investigate how film and television are constructed, how their industries operate, how they have developed over time, and how they continue to evolve and converge.

• Deploy your creative skills to address inequalities and injustices, in both the media industries and the wider world

• Interrogate the cultural significance of screen-based media using hands-on, practice-based research techniques

• Work with producing, directing, scriptwriting, cinematography, sound and editing students to develop your intellectual and creative skills, and to foster a network of collaborators

• Develop advanced research skills to build a CV for a career in the media industries or academia.

Units of study: Critical Media Practice | Media for Social Impact | Storytelling | Master's Research Project in Film & Television | Film & Television: Industries and Cultures* | Research in Film & Television*.

*Optional – see website for details

MA Producing Film & Television

Key Information

Duration & delivery: 1 year full-time

Tuition fees:

UK/RoI: £9,250

Overseas: £17,000

Entry requirements: A Bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject, or equivalent

On this course, you will learn how to develop your ideas as viable projects and sell them in a highly competitive marketplace. Thanks to expert tuition from professionals with experience from across the industry, you will become accomplished in managing productions as a producer. Working with other students in related subjects, you will plan and produce your own projects and learn how to work collaboratively within a creative environment.

• Learn how to make a project both culturally significant and industry relevant

• Work in a production office environment designed to mirror industry practice

• Take advantage of opportunities with RedBalloon, an awardwinning professional production unit based in the Faculty of Media & Communication www.bournemouth.ac.uk/maft www.bournemouth.ac.uk/mapftf

• Learn what it takes to develop and sell an original/adapted idea in an ever-changing market environment and how to pitch professionally in front of panels and larger audiences.

Accreditations: International Moving Image Society (IMIS).

Units of study: The Producer’s Development Process | Storytelling | Making it Happen – Selling Creative Ideas | Approaches to Industry | Media Production Master's Project.