The BA (Hons) Film and Screen Business addresses the need for highly motivated and knowledgeable producers and business managers and developers within the fast growing and innovative creative industries sector. 

Offered in conjunction with ScreenSpace, who provide practical training for creatives, the course challenges you to embrace current narrative and production techniques for screen and television. We will also cover emerging trends, and key business skills which you will then use to develop high-level business plans and strategies. 

You’ll learn to navigate the modern media environment; film and media content production and delivery; financing and funding; data and analytics; legal and accounting principles; marketing strategy, exploitation and distribution. You’ll also hone skills to help progress in your own business career – presentation, networking, pitching and creative entrepreneurship.

Upon completion of this course you may:

• Understand the business of storytelling across platforms, how these have developed over time; how they impact on the worlds of communication, media, film, and screen enterprise, and how they are likely to change over time, with reference to technological, cultural and social dynamics.
• Understand the markets, finance structures, information systems, technology, legal and accounting structures, and socio-political landscape and be able to reference this in the development of your ideas and business plans.
• Be able to develop and pitch ideas, proposals, and business plans in response to set briefs both collectively and individually, and to respond to problems and challenges. 
• Have the skills to inspire teams, co-operate with others, project-manage, organise, network, and work collaboratively in creative and business teams. 
• Have relevant practical, business, management and entrepreneurial skills to work entrepreneurially and to secure employment in the film, screen, and creative sectors.
• Understand the basics of narrative storytelling and be familiar with production and postproduction processes.