Film and Television Production with a Placement Year - BA (Hons)

University of East Anglia UEA

Combine hands-on film and TV production workshops and projects with classes that will equip you with expert knowledge about the rich history of the creative media industries. You’ll acquire a powerful mix of creative, critical, technical, and industry skills to launch your career. Our BA Film and Television Production with a Placement Year course goes beyond traditional learning, immersing you in the art of crafting narratives that captivate and visually resonate with your audience. On your placement year, you’ll gain real-world experience in an industry setting. UEA takes pride in being the ultimate hub for aspiring filmmakers and television creators. Our friendly and supportive academic team brings unparalleled expertise and groundbreaking research, offering a unique teaching approach that blends artistic expression with critical insight. We’ll nurture your potential with skills you cannot learn on the set. Our course is a hands-on exploration into film and television production. Dive into storytelling in workshops and state-of-the-art facilities, including our newly updated Television Studio and Media Suite. You’ll explore critical and theoretical approaches during seminars, then apply these skills in production. Experience film and television production in cutting-edge facilities, enriched by external partnerships that’ll enhance your learning journey. Our dedicated resource for digital creativity, known as BLOC, offers state-of-the-art media technologies. This will support your learning and allow you to explore various media tools. You'll also will have the chance to gain real-world experience as our internship scheme provides an opportunity to work and network with industry professionals. Previous students have interned at local media production companies as well as at the East Anglian Film Archive. We also have close links with the British Film Institute in London, and with film festivals, including the Norwich Film Festival, based in this city. In the past, our graduates have gone on to success as film industry executives, media managers, producers, creative directors, or gone to work in film heritage, for example. Your future in the film and television industry begins at UEA. In BA Film and TV Production with a Placement Year, you’ll do an industry placement in Year 3, gaining real-world experience that connects your academic skills with employment while you gain new skills to complement your course and enhance your career prospects. Placement Year and Study AbroadWant to graduate with professional experience? On this course, you’ll normally spend 9-12 months of your third year in a placement, gaining invaluable work experience and employability skills in a relevant area of your choice. You’ll be expected to seek your own work placement and will be supported in doing so by UEA’s Career Central Service and your School. Support for you to find your placement will start early in the first year and will be tailored to the particular needs you’ll have at various stages of the process. The field in which you’ll do your placement will depend on your own interests, and some of the preparatory workshops will help you have a clearer idea of what these are, what your values are, and which career they may lead to. Film and Television Production graduates go into a wide range of sectors, and so placements can be done in fields such as heritage, business, the public sector, creative industries and many more. We'll, however, require that the tasks you’ll conduct as part of your placement meet the required learning outcomes and are complex enough to help you develop a range of skills that you’ll be able to translate and use during the final year of your degree and your post-graduation career.