Film and Television Production [with Placement year] - BA (Hons)

Anglia Ruskin University

Join the award-winning students on our BA (Hons) Film and Television Production degree. Develop your skills in script, cinematography, editing, producing and directing in studio and on location.This course is all about the filmmaking, with modules around 80% practice-based to 20% context and research. You’ll gain key skills including ideas development, scripting, pre-production planning, shooting, editing and colour grading. Keep your skillset broad or specialise in particular areas of the craft.Our ScreenSkills Select endorsement guarantees you’ll get the best preparation for industry.As an official ARRI Certified Film School and Blackmagic Design training partner, we can certify you to use ARRI cameras and DaVinci Resolve software.We’re also partners with BAFTA-owned albert, home of environmental sustainability for the screen industries.Be supported by award-winning lecturers whose work has been screened on all the major UK television networks, as well as at multiple international film festivals.Join a course whose students have won Royal Television Society Student Awards over many years.See your films screened at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and gain work experience and industry contacts at film festivals.Get hands-on in our specialist film facilities, with full training from our technical team.Join trips to Sheffield Documentary Festival, Camerimage in Poland and Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

You’ll learn highly valued specialist skills such as editing, cinematography, production management, budgeting, producing and directing.These are invaluable as you launch a career in this highly competitive but growing and diverse creative industry.Our students have worked with Cambridge Film Festival, one of the longest-running film festivals in the UK, and the Watersprite International Film Festival.In 2022 the graduation film Roots was selected for official competition at the Watersprite International Student Festival and Cambridge Film Festival, winning the Watersprite Cinematography award and the GTC Bill Vinten Universities Award for Camera for cinematographer Agata Kazmierczak.They’ve also collaborated with University of Cambridge students through extracurricular events, including at student-run radio station Cam FM and the ADC Theatre.Our extra-curricular funded film projects have included HMS Belfast videos for the Imperial War Museum, shorts for C4’s Random Acts, the Kodak 16mm Commercials Competition and most recently, and a collaboration with the Globe's Sixty Second Shakespeare project.We place an emphasis on creativity and storytelling, as well as solid, transferable skills such as teamwork, communication, problem-solving, resourcefulness, and risk management that are valued in all areas of the creative industries as well as other sectors.Our BA (Hons) Film Production degree course will prepare you for employment or self-employment in film, television and the creative industries the ever-expanding field of online screen content including music, dance, marketing and fashion promos as well as high-end small screen (streaming) drama and documentary.