United Kingdom

MetFilm School

MA Film and Television Production

University degrees: Postgraduate

Course length: 1 year full-time

Overview

MA Film and Television Production is a one-year postgraduate course for the post-Netflix generation of producers, screenwriters, directors, camera people, editors and preditors.

The world of screen production has been transformed over the last fifteen years by the rapid rise of digital technology and new forms of screen content. Today’s market is looking for dynamic, creative and entrepreneurial multi-skilled talent – film and video-makers who are as comfortable with short-form online formats as they are with traditional television and cinema. Above all, they are looking for smart screen storytellers, able to create meaningful content whatever the context.

Through intensive production work and reflective thought, this new course aims to deliver employable and smart thinking graduates ready for industry and aware of the issues that making content for screens big and small entail.

Key Facts

  • High level of production opportunities working to real-world briefs and employing real-world methodologies that replicate industry

  • Work on two short films or videos, web series with Writers Room, online commercial content, showreel and collaborative Master’s Project. 

  • Industry contexts throughout including briefs from broadcasters and commercial clients

  • High emphasis on career and employability with support through curriculum and school’s unique enhancements MetFilm Futures and MetFilm Production

  • Fast track, immersive development as a skilled and motivated screen professional

  • Current Industry tutors bringing experience, contacts and award-winning skills

WHY TAKE THE COURSE?

  • Focus on contemporary screen media – production for the post-Netflix, post-YouTube generation

  • Multi-skilling approach – perfect for specialists wanting to offer more than one skill and for the ‘preditor’

  • Industry rapidly expanding and looking for new talent that is dynamic, flexible, industry-aware

  • Supported by current, award-winning industry tutors

  • Career and Employability support throughout including MetFilm Futures

  • Opportunity to work on real-world projects with briefs from broadcasters, film producers and commercial clients

  • Part of the suite of MA Courses that have produced high levels of graduate employment and success

WHAT YOU WILL STUDY

  • The course is built on the key concepts and skills that underpin screen storytelling and begins with an immersion in the fundamentals of dramatic narrative content for screens big and small. At each subsequent stage, students are given insight into the individual skills – producing, writing, directing, camerawork and editing – needed for different types of film and television production contexts – single drama, series drama, branded content and advertising.
  • Students will learn about the industry and their potential employment and work in a specific key production role and other supporting roles in the delivery of productions at every level of the course.

Modules

  • Screen Induction Lab
  • Screen Storytelling Boot Camp
  • Research in Screen Practice
  • Specialist Module 1: Dramatising the Now
  • Specialist Module 2: New Age Television
  • Specialist Module 3: Creative Entrepreneurism
  • Master’s Project: Engaging Audiences

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