MA Filmmaking (Experimental Film)

Goldsmiths, University of London

If you are passionate about pursuing a career as a storyteller, film director or content creator in an environment that promotes innovative filmmaking, this programme is for you.This MA is designed to help you develop your distinctive authorial voice as a filmmaker and storyteller, offering training, mentoring, masterclasses and facilities that nurture an innovative approach to film practice as a self-shooting, self-editing director.You will gain a rounded set of creative and professional skills in conceptual development, cinematography, sound design, pitching, animation, producing and editing, making you highly employable in the independent film, promotional media and digital content production industries.The Experimental Film pathway is one of seven pathways in Goldsmiths MA Filmmaking. It is housed in a new purpose-built media facility with state-of-the-art teaching spaces including film and photography studios, a range of professional cameras including Sony FS5s and Blackmagic Cinema, edit suites with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere, animation studios and Pro Tools audio post-production suites.The programme offers a unique blend of hands-on workshops, studio and location filming exercises, filmmaker masterclasses, conceptual development, and industry pitch experience. It also offers private edit time and technical support to ensure the professional-standard completion of your projects.You will work on ten short films and one longer-form 20-minute project during the year, building a creative, diverse portfolio of work that showcases skills in different modes and genres. Your moving-image work will span fiction, documentary, gallery film, short form for the web, promotional content and music video as well as hybrid and experimental genres.Your final project, a 20-minute film, will be in a style or mode of your choice.In your optional modules, you can choose to attend classes in related disciplines such as cinematography and editing, as well as the opportunity to take more theoretical modules exploring subjects such as race, gender, social justice, producing, activist film, media law and promotional content.The programme will prepare you to enter the global job market, armed with an enhanced understanding of your practical, intellectual and creative capacities as a filmmaker.The MA encourages you to develop:A broad range of skills and knowledge of film production techniques, ethics and aestheticsSpecific filmmaking and production management skillsTechnical skills (including camera, lighting and sound editing)An understanding of the workings of the media and their broad cultural and social impactsCareersIf you are passionate about fashioning an exciting career for yourself as a filmmaker in an environment that promotes innovative filmmaking, this course is for you.Our alumni are active in the film, media and cultural industries around the world, working and winning awards as documentary producers and directors.Recent alumni are active in the film, media and cultural industries around the world as:Content ProducersDocumentary FilmmakersCinematographersProducersDisGaffersGripsMedia Creatives