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School of Art, Design and Architecture

BA (Hons) Filmmaking

UCAS tariff	96 - 144
UCAS course code	P313
Institution code	P60
Duration	3 years
Assessment breakdown	100% coursework
Course type	Full-time
Location	Plymouth

This practice-based course combines an independent spirit with industry standards. Our learning environment focuses on exploration, creative risk-taking, collaboration and nurturing distinctive voices and skilled film talent. Learn from award-winning staff and visiting professionals taking part in masterclasses. Live BFI-funded projects and exhibition opportunities provide the perfect platform for you to develop your work from script to screen and tell new stories through the moving image.

Experience hands-on filmmaking

Industry links with the filmmaking community
We work closely with community-based film collectives, such as the DIY film collective Imperfect Cinema, and develop professional opportunities and links with the British Film Institute (BFI) and Plymouth's art museum and gallery, The Box.

Careers with this subject

Our course will enhance your creative and critical skills and help you to define and realise your own unique career destination.

This degree can set you on the right path to succeed in a number of media roles, including:

• Self-shooting producer/director
• Film crew
• Film directing
• Careers in pre- and post-production
• Careers in other areas of production
• Artist/filmmaker
• Commercial filmmaker
• Online filmmaker
• Content creative
• Advertising creative

Find out more about where a media degree can take you

Careers service

Careers advice is embedded into your academic programme through workshops, events, placements and networks, working with the academic staff teaching on your course.

We also offer materials, networks and resources online through our 24/7 portal, and a wide-range of activities, opportunities and support centrally in the Careers Service space within the Student Hub.

Learn about our careers service
We are here to help you to explore, connect and succeed.

Key features

• Study in an inspiring creative environment. You'll be based in the Scott Building with access to high-specification industry-standard facilities and equipment.
• Gain essential practical experience. Develop a high level of technical and creative skills and learn the art of filmmaking by making films.
• Learn from industry insiders; filmmakers, academics and technical staff with a wealth of independent, commercial and research experience.
• Work individually or as part of a crew. Develop your team-building and resilience when working in project teams. The course will improve your creative confidence and help you to establish your own unique approach to filmmaking.
• Embrace public audiences by working to live project briefs with professional institutions and communities.
  

Course details

• Year 1

• Explore filmmaking through production and creative research. Develop high-level technical skills and contextual awareness and experiment with a variety of storytelling forms and techniques. Examine themes such as genre and narrative and engage with some of the key debates and critical perspectives within the exciting world of cinema.
  

  Core modules

  • Film School (FILM411)

    This module will introduce core filmmaking foundations in technical operations, production processes and craft skills across sound, editing and cinematography. You will explore different concepts, forms and storytelling devices through filmmaking work, contextualised with analysis of contemporary and historical filmmaking examples. An underlying aim of the module is to enable you to make the transition into higher education and take greater responsibility for your own learning and development.

  • Screen Dialogues (FILM412)

    This module will introduce key concepts and contexts in filmmaking. You will explore how theory and practice interlink through the exploration of various methodologies. You will be given the opportunity to beta-test theoretical ideas discussed in the lectures through short filmmaking tasks which you will complete within your independent study time. These visual explorations will form the basis of discussion in the critical review sessions.

  • Storyteller (FILM413)

    This module provides you with the opportunity to engage in storytelling for the screen. Through short practical projects, you will experiment and develop skills and understanding on a range of filmmaking and moving image strategies. Through close analysis of contexts and methods from a practitioner's perspective, you will acquire a deepened understanding of storytelling and narrative techniques and principles.

• Year 2

• Expand your creative filmmaking skills through specialised technical workshops and crew-based filmmaking production. Identify interest areas and deepen your knowledge of the craft while experimenting with emerging, alternative and contemporary approaches to film and moving image practice.
  

  Core modules

  • Filmmaker (FILM511)

    The aim of this module is to enable you to build a strong understanding of film production through practice. You will consider different theories about the production process and examine a variety of forms, methods and strategies whilst developing your own short projects. The area of work chosen to explore will be defined by the student and will be a negotiated project. You may undertake any form of moving image including (but not exclusively) drama, documentary, experimental, or studio-based work. Each project will be developed using industry standard protocols such as scripts, pitch documentation, pre-visualisation and pre-post-production processes.

  • Cinematic Crafts (FILM512)

    In this module you will have the opportunity to explore a number of different cinematic crafts before choosing to specialise in one or two aspects of filmmaking through practical investigation. Through a series of skill workshops, practical exercises and critical review sessions, you will reflect, develop and expand on your technical knowledge and creative filmmaking. The practical investigation process is supported with tutorials and lectures that will aim to equip you in developing your own trajectories of skill development, experimentation and creative growth.

  • Imperfect Cinema (FILM513)

    This module fosters a practice-led environment in which to explore possible definitions, methods, approaches, production models, interventions, histories, and potentials for an imperfect cinema. Experimentation, formal innovation, DIY practices, and collaboration will be encouraged. The module will conclude with a public exhibition of your work, curated and produced by the group.

  • Common Challenge: Professional Filmmaker (FILM514)

    This module offers you the opportunity to develop your understandings of professional production through practice by working thematically on a live-brief. The research and project focus will relate to UN Sustainable Development Goals incorporating an interdisciplinary agenda. This offers you an opportunity to be presented with a real-world contemporary problem, providing a challenge for you to come up with fresh, creative ideas that could comment on/or contribute to some of the issues being examined. Your film projects will develop through collaboration, interaction and the exchanging of ideas. These creative, collaborative processes will lead you to developing concepts and pitches before producing film related work in response to the thematic prompts and opportunities.

• Final year

• Prepare for major final productions through research and experimentation with techniques and processes, and work on a number of short film projects to support your evolving portfolio.
  

  Core modules

  • Common Dissertation: Critical Practices (ADA600)

    The module engages students in situating practice through research, contextualisation and critical reflection, in relation to their final stage study and post University aspirations. Programmes can offer: a traditional dissertation; preparation for an extended dissertation; situating existing practice; or the construction of a new body of work as practice-based research.

  • Experimentation (FILM611)

    This module addresses the exciting possibilities for experimentation. It's about thinking though creative possibilities and finding your own working methods and working methodologies; where processes are underpinned by a sense of creative enquiry, risk-taking and celebration of the unknown. The structure allows you to experience, play and critically engage with processes, technologies and aesthetics.

  • Film Production (FILM612)

    Working both collaboratively and independently, you will conceive, develop and work on a short film or the consolidation of a body of filmic work. The format, style and intended audience will be determined by your understanding of your particular film practice and specialism. After a peer reviewed pitching process, you will undertake a period of pre-production leading to the production of a substantial work, supported by critical research and reflection.

  • Beyond Film (FILM613)

    This module is designed to support your filmmaking practice, portfolio development and professional aspirations. A core focus is the opportunity to engage in a 'live-brief' working in partnership with professional institutions or project's outside of the University. You will refine your professional portfolio through critical reflection, individual research and feedback from your peers and tutors, supporting your specific areas of practical, conceptual and creative interest and your professional ambitions beyond University.

Every undergraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the course aims, the course structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.

The following programme specification represents the latest course structure and may be subject to change:

BA Hons Filmmaking Programme Specification 6889

The modules shown for this course are those currently being studied by our students, or are proposed new modules. Please note that programme structures and individual modules are subject to amendment from time to time as part of the University's curriculum enrichment programme and in line with changes in the University's policies and requirements.

In light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the changeable nature of the situation and any updates to government guidance, we may need to make further, last minute adjustments to how we deliver our teaching and learning on some or all of our programmes, at any time during the academic year. We want to reassure you that even if we do have to adjust the way in which we teach our programmes, we will be working to maintain the quality of the student learning experience and learning outcomes at all times.

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff

96 - 144

A level
A minimum of two A levels; General Studies accepted.

International Baccalaureate

28 points.

18 Unit BTEC National Diploma/QCF Extended Diploma
DMM.

BTEC National Diploma modules
If you hold a BTEC qualification, it is vital that you provide our Admissions team with details of the exact modules you have studied as part of the BTEC. Without this information, we may be unable to process your application quickly and you could experience significant delays in the progress of your application to study with us. Please explicitly state the full list of modules within your qualification at the time of application.

All access courses
Pass a named Access to Higher Education Diploma (preferably Art and Design or combined), with at least 33 credits at merit and/or distinction.

T level
Merit in digital production, design and development.

GCSE

Mathematics and English Language grade C.

Portfolio
Applicants are not required to share a portfolio with us; however, doing so may allow us to guarantee you a place or consider applications that do not meet the normal academic requirements.

Other

Equivalent qualifications may be considered.

We welcome applicants with international qualifications. To view other accepted qualifications, please refer refer to our tariff glossary.

Fees, costs and funding

The UK is no longer part of the European Union. EU applicants should refer to our Brexit information to understand the implications.

New Student	2022-2023	2023-2024
Home	£9,250	£9,250
International	£14,600	£16,300
Part time (Home)	£770	£770

Full time fees shown are per annum. Part time fees shown are per 10 credits. Please note that fees are reviewed on an annual basis. Fees and the conditions that apply to them shown in the prospectus are correct at the time of going to print. Fees shown on the web are the most up to date but are still subject to change in exceptional circumstances. More information about fees and funding.

Additional costs

This course is delivered by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business and more details of any additional costs associated with the faculty's courses are listed on the following page: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business additional costs.

How to apply

All applications for undergraduate courses are made through UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

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To apply for this course and for more information about submitting an application including application deadline dates, please visit the UCAS website.

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Our graduates

Joanna Tebbutt - BA Filmmaking graduate now working at Aardman Studios
"This course taught me not just the theory and practice of film, but about who i wanted to be as a filmmaker."

James Fox - 2021 BA Filmmaking graduate now working as a freelance videographer and filmmaker.
"The Filmmaking course has opened many doors by enabling me to show prospective employers my work portfolio developed during my studies. Since graduating I already have credits with ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a number of independent film/TV companies."

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