University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years
The Raindance MA in Filmmaking is unlike any other film school in the world.
This flexible learning environment follows a set framework and enables you to follow a bespoke curriculum, tailored to your creative and professional aspirations: you set your own goals, develop your own learning activities, and get the support that you need from our team of tutors.
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The Raindance MA in Filmmaking is a 21st-century degree for filmmakers, entrepreneurs, and creatives wishing to upskill or transition into the film and digital media industry. You can attend the online MA in Filmmaking via distance learning from anywhere in the world, or in person in London. Students have joined us from over 30 countries in the world. This programme is delivered by Raindance in partnership with De Montfort University and recognised worldwide.
Our negotiated, flexible learning approach enables you to design a bespoke curriculum, following our modular framework: set your own goals, define what you want to learn and build your own unique learning pathway to get there.
This mentor-based programme connects you to industry filmmakers who help guide your choices, based on current practice. Free access to all Raindance open courses worldwide, Raindance Film Festival and Raindance industry events plug your career into the global Raindance ecosystem, and help you find your place in the global film and television industry .
This programme is a flexible learning environment: with a set framework and with the content following a bespoke curriculum. It is NOT a traditional, pre-determined curriculum that provides what you need to know or tells you what to do. It requires a high level of personal goal-setting, planning, research and resourcefulness to design your own learning pathway.
Marks and study credits are given for work which students submit at the end of each of six modules. The first two module assignments are Staffordshire University requirements. Students then negotiate the remaining modules.
For the negotiated modules, students can:
a) choose their own hands on projects, such as submitting a short film, short or feature scripts, mood board, marketing or business plan, marketing or crowdfunding campaign, etc. accompanied by a Reflective Report exploring a key learning and mastery area for the student in each module or
b) choose qualitative/quantitative research projects, data analyses or theoretical business, financing or distribution model development to gain industry expertise.
Each negotiated module in which a student submits a creative artifact, production plan or business document must also be accompanied by a Reflective Report. This report forms the foundation of learning in this degree. Through this Reflective Report students consolidate their learning and reflect meaningfully on their decisions and what they’ve learned. The Reflective Report can comprise 50% or more of the assessment mark for each negotiated module.
The Reflective Report is a written work expected at postgraduate level, which must include proper academic referencing, engagement with theoretical or industry context, and is marked according to British standards and conventions of postgraduate level writing and research.
The Programme provides a structure for your learning. You will be able to negotiate the content of your modules.
In this first module, the student is expected to develop and pitch to the university a Learning Plan that will act as a roadmap of individual study over two years part-time. The Learning Plan will form the link between the individual’s project & career goals and the Programme’s academic and modular frameworks.
This second module focuses on understanding proper research techniques, a lifelong skill to support a filmmaking, media and storytelling career. Students investigate a topic that is foundational to their chosen area of study.
Students design 3 separate modules negotiated with their mentors and advisors. Together these modules lead developmentally toward the student’s final masters project. The negotiated modules typically combine research and applied practice, testing or executing some aspect of writing, directing or producing.
The final Masters is the culmination of the student’s work in the Programme and brings together the learning done in the previous modules.
