Overview

BA Digital Film Practice – Visual Effects is one of four pathways under BA Digital Film Practice.

This course gives you the opportunity to study and gain professional skills in a range of cutting-edge technical craft practices, and then to specialise in one of these in-demand skillsets. This page explores the Visual Effects pathway.

As technology-enabled production continues to transform how film, television, and screen content is created, this course equips you to navigate a career in this exciting environment.

This course is offered through our partnership with BIMM University.

Why Take the Course?

Practical: Throughout this course, modules will pull from both practical and contextual elements, with opportunities to work in groups and produce content demonstrating your learning, and a graduation project run collaboratively across pathways.

Comprehensive: In addition to developing and practising fundamental storytelling, production, technical, and editorial skills, you will develop critical awareness, core knowledge, and technical, managerial, and creative abilities in your chosen pathway: Visual Effects, Post Production, Virtual Production, or Sound.

Industry-facing: You will build a range of transferable skills that can be applied across the creative industries and beyond, synthesising principles of diversity, equality, sustainability, and inclusivity in your development as a practitioner.

Marketable Skills: Visual Effects is a fast-growing field in the screen industries, and the latest research has already identified a skills shortage in this craft area. Through this course, you will be primed to join this sector of the industry, equipped with the practical and business skills needed to build a successful and rewarding career.

Teaching, Learning & Assessment

We include a diverse range of teaching methods which include:

seminars in smaller groups

small group tutorials