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Course Code: W15F
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Course Code: W313
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Why choose the School of Arts and Creative Industries
Our film and TV courses rank 7th for teaching quality and 9th for student experience in their subject field (Times Good University Guide, 2024).
96% of our cinematics and photography students were satisfied with the learning opportunities their course offered, including teaching skills for the future (NSS, 2024).
Our film and TV courses rank 8th for student satisfaction in their subject field (Complete University Guide, 2024).
About the course
On this highly practical course, you study ‘hands on’ in our state-of-the-art studios, using a range of industry-standard camera, sound, lighting and editing equipment. At the end of your three years, you will be multi-skilled, industry-ready practitioner. Employability is a core feature of this course: it is our job to help you break into film and we work with you to develop industry links and find paid work or internships during your time with us.
Facilities and specialist equipment
- High-spec multi-camera studios
- Specialist make-up studios
- 3D green-screen room
- Digital video-editing suites including Adobe Creative Cloud software (Premier Pro)
- Netflix-standard Sony FX6 cameras for broadcast-quality film and television content
- Sony FX3 Cinema Line camera with full-frame sensor and enhanced mobility for easy solo hand-held shooting
- Industry-standard sound and lighting equipment
Student experience
The course offers a unique 70/30 practice/theory balance.
Learn to use a variety of location cameras, lighting and sound equipment; gain skills in the post-production process with Adobe Premier Pro.
Learn from an academic team who are also TV and film industry professionals.
Take on live creative briefs through our links with the local film and TV community, including Luton Culture and Clearhead Productions.
Engage directly with the industry through networking events, guest talks and workshops with film professionals. Build your professional knowledge through field trips to notable film studios including Pinewood Studios, Sky and Molinare, the UK’s leading post-production supplier.
We bring the creative industries to you with regular opportunities to meet visiting, industry-active professionals. Past guest speakers include Jess Symons, MD at Ivy House Productions; Lorraine Heaton, Production Management, BBC Studios; and Tom Wall, TV producer for Channel 4, Channel 5 and Netflix.
Build your skills and experience through our industry links with organisations and companies such as the BBC, ITV, Monkey Kingdom, Zig Zag Productions, and the Berlin Shorts Festival.
Zombie invasion of Beds university!
A special one-day cross collaboration project between BA Film Production, BA Make-up and BA Performing Arts, where short comedy skits were filmed around campus to promote differing parts of the University like the Gym and Library. Acting students were turned into Zombies by the Make-up students and film students filmed and edited the short films, go to this YouTube channel to see all the films.
This is part of the School of Arts and Creative industries ethos of students working together to create commercial works.
Our Netflix Approved Cameras will allow you to produce broadcast quality Film and Television as part of the course. The Sony Fx3 Cinema line camera has a full frame sensor and is in an amazingly compact design and enhanced mobility for easy solo hand-held shooting. The Sony Fx6 Cinema line camera delivers compactness and performance, with a full-frame image sensor and a library of pre-set looks allows stunning cinematic expression to be achieved easily.
Photos taken by Vasile Burla, a student on our BA Photography course.
with Professional Practice Year
This course has the option to be taken over four years which includes a year placement in industry. Undertaking a year in industry has many benefits. You gain practical experience and build your CV, as well as being a great opportunity to sample a profession and network with potential future employers.
There is no tuition fee for the placement year enabling you to gain an extra year of experience for free.
*Only available to UK/EU students.
with Foundation Year
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.
Why study a degree with a Foundation Year?
- Broad-based yet enough depth to give you credible vocational skills
- Coverage of a variety of areas typically delivered by an expert in this area
- Gain an understanding of a subject before choosing which route you wish to specialise in
- Great introduction to further study, and guaranteed progression on to one of our Undergraduate degrees
The degrees offering a Foundation Year provide excellent preparation for your future studies.
During your Foundation Year you will get the opportunity to talk to tutors about your degree study and future career aspirations, and receive guidance on the most appropriate Undergraduate course to help you achieve this; providing you meet the entry requirements and pass the Foundation Year.
Course Leader - Anthony Greenbank
I have been producing, writing and directing in the television industry for several years. I have worked with companies such as the BBC, ITV and Sky.
My production experience spans a variety of genres including comedy, chat shows, music programming, documentaries, sports and children's TV.
Course Leader - Anthony Greenbank
I have been producing, writing and directing in the television industry for several years. I have worked with companies such as the BBC, ITV and Sky.
My production experience spans a variety of genres including comedy, chat shows, music programming, documentaries, sports and children's TV.
What will you study?
Studying our Film Production BA (Hons) course will equip you with the knowledge and expertise in filmmaking, film writing and film analysis with an entrepreneurial approach. In core areas of study, you will discover the fundamentals of the film and television industry Content and Creation unit. Here, you will gather what it takes to be a producer or production manager and discover how films and TV programmes are pitched and commissioned. Similarly, you will consider the cultural, political and economic factors involved in the production, exhibition and distribution of contemporary films in our Contemporary Practices unit. To build on your practical skills, our unit in Film Production will enable you to take an idea and successfully realise it on screen by giving you the opportunity to develop and practice your production skills.
Through a series of workshops and practical exercises, you will apply production theory such as the continuity system, learn to choreograph shots, and experience working in a production team. Delving into more technical areas of study, you will be introduced to the principles of audiovisual material in our Reading the Screen unit. Here, you will have the opportunity to analyse aspects of film style such as cinematography, editing and sound design as well as how actors and producers create meaning in such work. To develop your visual style, our Making Images unit will expose you to principles, techniques and the practice of image making and sound recording. As a filmmaker or producer, it is also important that you are capable of telling your own stories. This is where our unit in Cinema and Narrative will develop your understanding of storytelling conventions based on various forms of cinema. If you are a fan of fiction, our Fiction Filmmaking unit will provide you with a holistic approach to the production of fiction films.
You will explore the craft of writing narrative drama for film while also discovering the technologies and techniques used to shoot drama productions. More excitingly, you will have the opportunity to bring these skills together to produce a short fiction film. This links closely with our Writing for The Screen unit where you will examine key elements of classical narratives and practice writing screenplays to improve your writing and storytelling skills. In contrast, you will also critically examine Non-Fiction Filmmaking and explore theory and practice around how reality is represented in the media. This unit will allow you to experiment with digital recording and editing equipment while also exploring how it is used in documentary practice. Another essential area of production is the editing process, and this is where our Post-Production for Sound and Image unit will equip you with post-production techniques and technologies for digital sound and images used in film, music and media.
Finally, you will have the opportunity to showcase your knowledge and skills acquired from this course in our Final Project: Film and TV Production unit. You will have the freedom to choose between producing a type of film (a drama, documentary, etc.), a script or a dissertation in film-studies. To help you with this, our unit in Research, Development and Industry will develop your skills in production research, documentation and development. To prepare you for the real-world environment, our unit in Becoming a Freelancer will support you in building the confidence to establish contacts in the creative industries while introducing you to the nature of freelance work. With the help of a tutor, you will work on your CV, engage in explicit networking and create a professional development plan to secure work in the field.
How will you be assessed?
Assessment will test both the processes that you go through to develop your production and writing as well as the quality of your final work. Assessments will range from directed short assessments which will enable you to build up your skills and your confidence in both writing and production to more open briefs which will allow you to generate your own ideas and new ways of working. You will learn to reflect on your work and to identify where you excel and where you need to improve. You will have regular feedback sessions with your tutors and feedback sessions with your peers.
Practical work for portfolio submission or your film work will be reviewed during the unit to ensure that you are on target and to enable you to respond to peer and tutor feedback to re-evaluate and improve your work. You will work in teams and individually and your assessments will test your abilities to think creatively write effectively and to know what is expected in terms of professional standards within the creative industries. Essays will be required to be submitted via Turnitn. You will work in groups on production to replicate working patterns in the industry however all marks for production work are individual and are assessed through your own contribution within the group and through your individual component to each unit.The assessments are designed to enable you to develop your own voice and your own creative signature in your work.
Careers
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 professionalismwhich 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-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. Students also continue to study at MA and PhD level or train to teach in schools and further education.
Jack Twine studied in the School of Creative Industries and says 'Without the University of Bedfordshire I wouldn't be where I am now. They organised my first job after graduation as a runner on a BBC documentary and I've gone from job to job ever since.'
Entry Requirements
Entry Requirements
- 112 UCAS tariff points including 96 from at least 3 A-levels or equivalent
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Merit Scholarship
We offer a Merit Scholarship to UK students, worth £2,400* over three academic years, which is awarded to those who can demonstrate a high level of academic achievement, through scoring 120 UCAS tariff points or more.
Bedfordshire Bursary
If you aren’t eligible for the Merit Scholarship, this Bursary is there to help UK students with aspects of student living such as course costs. The Bursary will give you £1,000* over three academic years, or £1,300* if you are taking your course over four academic years (including those with a Foundation Year).
Full terms and conditions can be found here.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2024/25 is £15,500 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Merit Scholarship
We offer a Merit Scholarship to UK students, worth £2,400* over three academic years, which is awarded to those who can demonstrate a high level of academic achievement, through scoring 120 UCAS tariff points or more.
Bedfordshire Bursary
If you aren’t eligible for the Merit Scholarship, this Bursary is there to help UK students with aspects of student living such as course costs. The Bursary will give you £1,000* over three academic years, or £1,300* if you are taking your course over four academic years (including those with a Foundation Year).
Full terms and conditions can be found here.
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2024/25 is £15,500 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
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