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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2026
4 Year
This course blends film, photography and media to help you develop the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to succeed in the fast-growing media sector.You'll study film and photography in a research-led media school, considering key theories, debates and historical developments. This is combined with some creative practice, such as screenwriting and digital photography, to foster your creative and critical reflection skills.While this is an academic degree, you’ll be able to explore production practices using our industry-standard facilities and understand how theory and practice can support each other.Optional modules allow you to focus on film analysis and theory, develop skills in animation or scriptwriting, or to broaden the scope of your degree into the field of media and communication.You’ll gain an understanding of the historical, theoretical, cultural and industrial contexts of film and photography, alongside mastering skills in production and post-production.Specialist facilitiesYou’ll study in a supportive environment equipped with a range of industry-standard resources. As well as our extensive loans service for equipment such as digital recorders, video cameras, stills cameras and more, you’ll benefit from access to our darkroom and 40 editing suites equipped with the latest Avid video editing software and Photoshop.Our 58-seat cinema screens films twice a week during term time, and is equipped with HD video projection facilities, 16mm and 35mm film projectors and Dolby Digital surround sound.Take a 360 tour of our facilities.Photography studio
This module provides a basic grounding in the language, conventions, techniques and practices of micro-budget, mini-crew digital short video production. Providing a fundamental understanding of the complex nature of production, the module will equip you with the skills needed to work with creative clarity and technical efficiency within a small production team, whilst in charge of at least one key production element.
This module equips students with a broad historical overview of the principal developments in cinema history, from 1895 to the present day. Through a series of ten lectures and linked screenings, students are introduced to the form, culture, economics and ideology of the moving image.
This module introduces the basic building blocks of media and communication research in order to support the reading, writing and research skills you'll require during your time in the School of Media and Communication. Highlighting the links between fundamental academic skills and research practice, the module allows you to explore how media and communication is studied, and how skills developed for a media and communication degree relate to both scholarly practice and media practice.
This introductory module will introduce you to an understanding of the ontological and technological nature of photography. You'll study photographic techniques based on the analogue and intermediate digital production and editing of images. The module focuses on key analogue and digital photographic techniques, enabling you to situate your own practice within broader cultural discourses, and it will also develop ethical and legal frameworks and risk-aware practice.
This module is an introduction into screen narrative in film and television. Students learn how stories are constructed by examining characters and common dramatic structures across these forms of media. Students also learn how to use scriptwriting software and undertake screenwriting exercises in seminars. Knowledge and understanding is demonstrated through an assessed essay and through a short script project.
This module equips you with a thematic and theoretical overview of the various approaches to the study of the cinema. It will enable you to demonstrate knowledge of selected critical themes and theories and articulate their relevance to a scholarly understanding of cinema. You'll also assess the significance of cinematic themes as tools of ideology, and apply thematic and theoretical models to readings of individual films and/or the work of individual filmmakers.
This module is designed to bring the theory and practice of photography together, through both research and creative experimentation, alongside critical and reflective writing on the subject. This will prepare you for more independent working at Level 3, particularly the Photography Project module. Together with study of the principles of photographic practice, history and theory, you'll develop your own technical knowledge and creative approaches to the medium, through the development of a negotiated photography project.
Students must select 40 credits module.
This module facilitates learning at advanced level on the principles and practices of short film (digital cinema) production, through the fulfilment of at least one primary production role within a small-crew group production, allowing you to demonstrate your creative, analytical and critical learning and personal development in the field of cinematic production.
Students must select 40 credits module.
This module provides you with an opportunity to undertake an independent research project and produce a dissertation on a topic of your own choice under the guidance of a supervisor. Lectures introduce you to the research design and structure of a dissertation, including how to develop a research question, how to produce and organise a literature review, how to choose and apply a research method, how to analyse data, and how to present findings and arguments. You'll receive individual tutorial support from an academic supervisor, but the emphasis is on independent study.
Students must select 40 credits module.
This module facilitates learning at advanced level on the principles and practices of a short moving image production, allowing you to demonstrate your creative, analytical and critical learning and personal development in the field of moving image production. You'll also produce a substantial piece of reflective, analytical writing in relation to the production, along with a critical evaluation of the completed project.
Students must select 40 credits module.
The dissertation centres on the ability to explore cultural, theoretical and historical ideas through a piece of academic writing and associated practice. The two elements combine together to allow for a reflective and critical dialogue between the processes involved in creating a portfolio and in the broader academic contexts which inform the thinking behind the photographs. You'll be expected to provide a written commentary exploring these relationships and situating the images they have produced within these discourses.
Students must select 40 credits module.
Conducting and presenting the appropriate research required to identify and develop a story idea, you'll produce a well-structured and coherent short film script (30 – 50 pages) or television drama pilot or sitcom episode (30 – 45 pages + 5-page series bible) using the relevant standard layouts.
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