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Ethnographic and Documentary Film (Practical) MA

UCL (University College London)

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  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    UCL (University College London)

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

This unique MA programme is based within a university but run by leading film practitioners, ensuring that you receive the highest-quality practice-based learning. You have your own camera equipment throughout and we provide editing facilities. Students are taught in small studios – either ‘Ethnographic and Documentary Film’ Studios, or in one ‘Documentary Fiction’ Studio which explores the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, bringing elements of performance into documentary filmmaking. Students learn to tell stories in various documentary film modes master the technical ‘craft’ skills needed to produce different kinds of documentary films of different lengths for varied audiences critically view and review film material draw on anthropological and social science approaches to documentary think critically about the relationship between form and content in documentary film practice.

Tuition fees

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£ 36,500per year

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University information

UCL (University College London)

  • University League Table

    13th

  • Campus address

    UCL (University College London), Gower Street, London, Camden, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    7th out of 23 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 201
    165 82%

    8th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    86.0 86%

    3rd

    1
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.03 76%

    17th

    4

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