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Film and Drama
Drama, Performance and English Language BA(Hons)
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This course gives you the chance to gain a deep understanding of contemporary approaches and historical drama performances alongside literary and linguistics approaches to texts and interactions. You’ll have the opportunity to work with internationally renowned theatre companies.
Drama, Performance and English Literature BA(Hons)
Drama, Theatre and Performance BA(Hons)
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Drama, Theatre, and Performance at Huddersfield is a production-based course for those that wish to create their own performances and workshops through acting or directing. While studying with us you’ll investigate different performance practices and have the opportunity to create your own performances for a live audience.
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If you love the texts behind the drama as much as the actual performances themselves, studying Drama and English Literature together gives you the opportunity to gain a richer understanding of the two subjects. The aim is to get you to investigate drama through practical performance, and to develop your appreciation of the startling variety and complexity of English literature.
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Drama, Theatre and Performance with Creative Writing
BA(Hons)
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This course encourages you to develop your writing skills across theatre, film, television and radio alongside fiction and poetry. You’ll be taught to recognise what makes great writing, which could be invaluable in your own work, and fine tune your skills and help you develop practically and theoretically.
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Film Studies
BA(Hons)
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From Hollywood blockbusters to streaming platforms, the film industry is on the lookout for new ways to tell stories and sell their content. On this course, you’ll focus on film and TV in a global, digital media landscape, where content, audiences, fans, business and tech all work together in fascinating ways. It’s the start of your journey towards becoming a thinker, maker and creator in the screen industries of tomorrow.
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Film Making BA(Hons)
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Our degree in Film Making is aimed at students with the artistic drive to make movies that change how we imagine the world around us. You’ll be challenged to develop all your talents – creative, analytical and technical skills – to equip you for a broad range of professional roles in the screen industries. On this course, you’ll get hands-on in our film and tv studios and in screen production and post production, and in your final year project you’ll get a budget to make a film as part of a team.
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Film Studies and History
BA(Hons)
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If you’re passionate about understanding and telling stories about the past, this course could be ideal for you. Combining the study of Film and History allows you to think critically about the ways in which our past and present have been narrated, represented and (re) constructed over the centuries. You’ll also try your hand at researching and producing these stories yourself.
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Film Studies and English Literature
BA(Hons)
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Combining the study of Film and English will allow you to explore texts you love, as you learn how to analyse and tell stories in written and visual form. The course will develop your abilities to analyse, research and write persuasively about a rich variety of films, shows and filmmakers. You’ll be taught and supported by our enthusiastic, internationally renowned professors, researchers and media practitioners.
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Music and Sound for Screen
BA(Hons)
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This course will help you hone your creative talent for creating and producing music and sound for film, television and games. You’ll have the opportunity to build your creative portfolio by gaining skills in desktop music production, studio engineering, orchestration and sound design. This course is accredited by the Joint Audio Media Education Support (JAMES).
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Screenwriting BA(Hons)
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If you love films and books, and are keen to develop skills in writing for the screen, then this could be the course for you. You’ll learn screenwriting methods and techniques as well as gaining a solid grounding in the fundamentals of creative writing across a range of genres. The course will equip you with practical skills required to pitch your own projects and to polish original work to a professional standard.
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Television Studies and Production BA(Hons)
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Television is the classic medium of our age and shapes our culture, politics and everyday life. On this course you’ll learn how to make TV shows, to understand the contexts and ways in which today’s television is made and distributed, and critically analyse television and its impact to help inform your own creative work.
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WHY STUDY FILM AND DRAMA AT HUDDERSFIELD?
Facilities
State-of-the-art facilities including three adaptable drama studios with sprung floors and multimedia projection equipment in our new 300 square metre dedicated film studio, our live broadcast and television studios, virtual reality and motion tracking sensors, and state-of-the-art music and sound production studios, where you will have access to a range of industry-standard production equipment and software, both on and off campus.
Academic expertise
Work with tutors who have been successful in industry, including Obi Emelonye, award winning Nollywood film director, writer and producer. His credits include the multi-award-winning The Mirror Boy, a 2011 Nigerian fantasy adventure drama film, shot in England and the Gambia which received 3 nominations at the 2011 Africa Movie Academy Awards. He also directed Last Flight to Abuja and Crazy, Lovely, Cool, which are both available on Netflix. In addition, coming soon on Amazon, the paradigm-shifting biopic Badamasi: Portrait of a General. He was also the first film director to make a movie via Zoom, by working remotely with cast members in London and Lagos. The movie, Heart 2 Heart, received critical acclaim from major media outlets all over the world.
Eric Hetzler began his professional acting career at the age of 12, when he was cast by the world-renowned Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. Since that beginning, he has performed in more than 100 stage, screen, and other media productions. Eric has continued to act having performed Richard III, Polonius in Hamlet and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII. In 2007 he performed in Pericles, as part of the Summer in the Dell series in Stratford upon Avon. Most recently, he played Alsemero in The Changeling.
World Class
QS World University Subject Rankings 2022 ranked the University of Huddersfield 25th in the world for ‘Performing Arts’.
“Studying drama at the University of Huddersfield will help you to develop both your practical and your critical skills. All of our staff have extensive experience of working in the field of performance in various contexts and work together to provide the best possible learning experience for you. We also have many contacts with many companies and practitioners who contribute to the course by giving performances, running classes, or providing placement opportunities.”
Nik Taylor, Subject Leader, Drama, Theatre and Performance
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At Huddersfield you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your undergraduate degree, so that you gain valuable skills and attributes that we know employers are looking for.
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Our Film and Drama department focuses on interdisciplinarity collaboration and encourages a great range of transferable skills for employment within a diverse world of theatre, film, and television. All our courses build your knowledge, skills, and capacity to utilise the vast creative opportunities of theatre, film and television in the era of rapid technological change. Our philosophy is to educate thinkers, makers and creators who will rise to the challenges by building their creative, technical, and analytical skills.
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