Course options
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Qualification
MSc - Master of Science
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Location
High Wycombe Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
21-SEP-26
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Duration
1 Year
Course summary
This MA in Special Effects for Film & TV, developed in collaboration with industry professionals, enables you to specialise and refine your skills and knowledge in either Prosthetics and Makeup Effects or Props and Modelmaking. Split between our High Wycombe Campus and BNU teaching base at Pinewood studios, you’ll have access to state-of-the-art facilities and industry insights from professionals, all whilst studying right in the heart of the famous creative hub. What will I study? This MA enables you to focus your studies either on the conceptualisation, design and crafting of prosthetics makeup effects production or towards the design and crafting of props, model-making, animatronics design and fabrication technologies. This taught course is industry-focused and will provide opportunities for you to engage with a broad range of skills and techniques required within special effects production for film and TV and associated creative industries. You’ll delve into the interpretation of scripted and envisioned concepts requires innovative thinking, originality and imagination and pre-visualisation, coupled with practical skills to carry the projects through problem-solving to completion. Upon graduation from this course, you’ll have relevant skills in developing theoretical and critical approaches to your specialism, and together with the craft skills acquired in your chosen specialism, will be able to support the design, prototyping and production of polished, realistic, functional, camera-ready artefacts and be appropriately prepared for future employment.
Modules
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£ 21,060per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
Buckinghamshire New University
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University League Table
97th
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Campus address
High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2JZ, United Kingdom
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Subject ranking
86th out of 94 6
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Entry standards
/ Max 210109 52%92nd
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10072.0 72%9th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.19 80%22nd
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