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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Farnham
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
If working on movies and high-end TV is your dream, then our BA (Hons) Film Production degree course at UCA Farnham will give you the visual skills and vital business knowledge to forge an exciting career in film production. Graduates have gone on to work on the Harry Potter and Mission Impossible series’, as well as major TV shows like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Disney plus series Loki. Our course is predominantly practice-based – we believe in learning through doing. We are also geared to meet the ever-changing demands of the industry, and you’ll get to learn how to best use virtual reality, visual effects, and post-production technologies as you work. UCAS code W600 Campus UCA Farnham Start date(s) September 2024 Duration 3 years full-time
ATOM activities are tiny pieces of individual learning that facilitate interdisciplinary exposure across the university. Collectively they form a small fraction of your curriculum that is determined through your own personal choice and interest.
You?ll learn the essential skills of documentary film production and go outside of your familiar surroundings to encounter new people and places. You?ll explore different approaches to factual filmmaking while investigating the ethical and practical issues of the representation of people. Working in a small group, you will undertake research leading to the production of a short film that presents a portrait of an individual or a group.
The unit provides an opportunity for you to explore what is meant by equality, diversity, and inclusion and the implications of these concepts for creative practice. It will equip students to understand how our social identities (such as gender, race/ethnicity, class, disability, sexual orientation, and religion) contribute to the inclusion and/or exclusion of individuals in creative spaces.
You?ll be introduced to key works, ideas and debates in experimental film, from the historical up to the present day. An emphasis is placed on the critical contribution this expressive filmmaking form offers to contemporary ideas in visual and material screen cultures. You?ll be challenged to produce a short experimental film with a research portfolio of visual material and the recording of the creative process informing this production.
You?ll reflect on your learning throughout the first year of the course, beginning to prepare you for the world beyond university and in readiness for the second year of your degree. You will begin to build the foundation for your CV and online presence and to develop your confidence in presenting yourself and your work to the industry. You?ll work with the careers department, and undertake training in areas such as interview skills, sustainability in production and further your awareness of equality and diversity in film and television production.
You?ll begin by taking part in a series of interdisciplinary workshops and seminars based around ideas generation, creative practice, and development. This week will help students develop their understanding of creativity and different sources of inspiration via different approaches, concepts, and mediums.
This week will help you develop your understanding and appreciation for fast-paced idea generation while working within a team. You?ll work to create an idea, develop your concept and produce a short film in 24 hours.
In this unit you will collate a digital record, reflecting on your learning journey through the first year of your degree. You will be identifying key points and developments within all units undertaken. We are interested in seeing a detailed account of your academic, technical and creative progress and development.
In this unit, you?ll explore the practice of screen storytelling, addressing the fundamental question: how do filmmakers go about telling stories on screen? At the core of this module is the analysis of fiction film to gain familiarity with core components of screen fiction storytelling - character, goal, journey, conflict and resolution. You?ll be challenged to write a detailed treatment for a short film, and make a short video essay that reworks an existing fiction film, to demonstrate your familiarity with the grammar of screen fiction.
Working within a group, you?ll create an imaginative non?sync narrative fiction film, through the entire production process, beginning with the development of story and script, creating characters through writing and working with actors, and creating an appropriate story world through camera, production design and sound. Between you, you?ll also run an online blog that will be used to share the research that will inform the project.
This unit is an extension of your Year 1 ATOM Activities.
You?ll undertake a documentary journey that reveals unexpected realities about the world we live in. Integral to this is the exploration of cultural, critical, theoretical and historical contexts in which selected filmmakers from a variety of international contexts have responded to real-life events. Working in groups you will research and produce an original documentary project. You?ll develop your documentary understanding through a variety of camera, editing, idea and research lectures. Before your production is greenlit, you?ll pitch your idea in front of a panel and produce a sizzle reel that shows proof of concept of your film idea.
You?ll take on responsibility for a crew role in the development and production of a short fiction film to a given brief. You?ll be required to engage with research, script and production development, to engage with potential festival strategies, identify your potential audience and participate at a professional level with onset protocols and project management.
A series of interdisciplinary seminars and workshops on how to evaluate your own work and recognise your points of strength. This week will investigate how creative risk-taking, invention and experimentation helps to develop your work.
From a set industry brief from either a commercial client or a charitable organisation, you'll work alone or in small production teams to understand and identify the needs of the brief, plan all aspects of the project and its unique needs, and fully address the requirements of the client.
This week consists of a series of interdisciplinary seminars, screenings, and workshops on creative game-building subjects through the lens of a ?Games Jam? event. You?ll see the possibilities and potential of what you could create in a short space of time, with the influence of their individual practises and subjects.
You?ll build your industry community and professional networking footprint, creating a digital folder evidencing that you are actively engaging in sustainable professional development. You?ll showcase current and newly established professional networks and identify common interests.
This unit aims to promote progressive values and attitudes to diversity and inclusion in creative practice. Students will have the opportunity to explore global perspectives and influences on creative practice, drawing upon interactions with varied identities, cultures, politics, and histories. The unit will explore how beliefs, values and attitudes drive behaviour and practices. Students will reflect on the development of their own creative influences, perspectives, practices, and sense of belonging as developing creative professionals in global and contemporary spaces.
Emphasising the personal development of critical writing, you?ll research and complete an independently generated and illustrated Extended Research Project.
You?ll take on pre-production tasks relevant to your crew roles for the Final Major Project unit. You will also successfully contextualise these roles and the projects for life after graduation, building on technical, collaborative and professional skills you have learned so far.
You?ll further develop your chosen role(s) and complete the projects started in the Final Major Project: Pre-Production unit through production and into post-production and final screening. You are expected to work with a high degree of professionalism in a crew role(s,) and be challenged to further your technical and creative skills throughout.
Through interdisciplinary seminars, screenings and workshops, Launch Week focuses on ground-breaking, creative work that has had surprised, shocked, and changed the way we view the world. This will help you see the possibilities and potential of what you could create and achieve in your final year.
This week comprises a series of interdisciplinary lectures, seminars and workshops centred around life after graduation. This week will help students develop their understanding of the creative industries, working professional environment and what they can expect after graduation.
32-168 Grades/points required
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