Film and Television Production (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

University of Bedfordshire

About the course

The degree offers a business-based approach to TV and film production, providing you with the knowledge and expertise you need to establish a successful career in this dynamic industry.

In your first year, you explore creating content; film and TV studio production; and reading the screen. Later units include freelancing; fiction film-making; and writing for the screen. You also work independently on a special film or TV project of your own choosing.

Film and Television Production with Foundation Year - BA (Hons)

A Degree with a Foundation Year gives you guaranteed entry to an Undergraduate course.

Whether you’re returning to learning and require additional help and support to up-skill, or if you didn’t quite meet the grades to pursue an Undergraduate course, our Degrees with Foundation Year provide a fantastic entry route for you to work towards a degree level qualification.

With our guidance and support you’ll get up to speed within one year, and will be ready to seamlessly progress on to undergraduate study at Bedfordshire.

The Foundation Year provides an opportunity to build up your academic writing skills and numeracy, and will also cover a range of subject specific content to fully prepare you for entry to an Undergraduate degree.

This is an integrated four-year degree, with the foundation year as a key part of the course. You will need to successfully complete the Foundation Year to progress on to the first year of your bachelor’s degree.

How will this course improve my career prospects?

This degree recognises the need to emphasise the development of your key employability skills, alongside critical and analytical judgement, in order to equip you to adapt to change, to grasp opportunities and to move upwards in your career paths.

The course systematically develops skills and qualities in critical thinking, creativity, autonomy, employability and professionalism which will enable you to seek employment in a wide variety of career destinations.

Currently, alumni can be found working in the arts, in entertainment and in film or television as runners, researchers, producers and executives; assistant directors, editors and cinematographers; at the BBC, ITV and independent production companies, Channel 4, Channel 5, in fashion, in journalism (both print and TV) and a great number of them run their own production companies.