Film, Television and Creative Practice MA

University of East Anglia

Overview

This MA is for you if you love to be creative and you’re brimming with ideas and concepts – but you want to understand the theory behind your passions too.

Film and television are multi-billion-pound global industries that play a crucial role in shaping how we understand the world around us.

On our MA Film, Television and Creative Practice you will master the essential skills for a career in film and television, in a pioneering centre for the subject.

You’ll develop your creative and critical skills through an exciting mix of practical work and studies of media history and theory.

You’ll graduate with practical and creative skills for the job market combined with a deep understanding of the social, cultural, political, industrial, and aesthetic aspects of film.

About This Course

Prepare to combine the development of your existing creative skills in film and television production with a fascinating grounding in the historical and theoretical approaches to the two media.

Your core modules will focus on creativity and developing ideas, the study of media forms, short film, and video production – giving you a strong base of knowledge. You’ll then have free rein to pick complementary modules from a range of options covering areas such as gender in media, Hollywood cinema, and national and international film cultures.

One of the most important aspects of your MA is the dissertation-by-practice: an audio-visual project combining your intellectual and theoretical knowledge with your practical skills, supervised by a faculty member. This is your chance to focus in depth on a subject that inspires you and takes you closer to your career goals.

Your studies will come to life in several different ways. As well as lectures, seminars, and film screenings, you will have access to UEA’s Television Studio and our state-of-the-art Media Suite, packed with innovative media technologies including editing suites, cameras, sound equipment, a sound studio, and a digitization suite. You’ll have the opportunity to be fully trained in how to use this equipment, deepening your understanding of how film and television is produced.

We are also home to the extensive East Anglian Film Archive, a unique resource which you can make use of during your time here. And we have close links with the British Film Institute in London.

Graduates from our MA frequently progress to PhD study and have gone on to rewarding careers in various fields including archiving, academia, journalism, and the film and television industries.

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