Are you a budding Spielberg or DuVernay? Or perhaps you’re an aspiring young professional with a passion for camerawork, scriptwriting, audio production, or have a desire to make your film concepts a reality through team work 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 camera 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 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.

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.