BA (Hons) Film (With Foundation Year)

This extended course is perfect if you want a film degree but you don’t meet the standard entry requirements. Throughout your course, you’ll get the opportunity to develop your production skills by studying modules focused on documentary, fiction, screenwriting, and avant-garde filmmaking. We’ll give you the skills to work in all film-related fields. Our graduates have gone into a variety of rewarding careers, from film production to festival administration to film journalism.

Foundation Year

• Academic Development
• Social Media Project
• Ways of Looking
• Narrative and Creativity
• Group Film Project
• Professional Development: Mental Wealth

Year 1

• Aesthetics and Technologies: Practice as research
• Media Cultures
• Documentary 1: Documentary and Representation
• Narrative 1: Narrative fiction
• Agency 1 (Mental Wealth)
• Film History

Year 2

• Documentary 2: Experimental Documentary
• Narrative 2: Advanced narrative
• Critical Theory
• European and World Cinema
• Agency 2 (Mental Wealth)
• Internship / Study Abroad Module: Employment and Enterprise

Year 3

• Aesthetics and technologies: professional practices
• Final Project: Development
• Final Project: Completion
• Urban Film
• Agency 3 (Mental Wealth)
• Horror and Science Fiction

Employability

After graduating, some of you may choose to continue your studies with us by studying for an MA in Film or moving on to film school.  You can take advantage of our close connections with the British Film Institute, Film London, and the capital’s film festivals throughout your course. You’ll also have a great opportunity to showcase your talents when your third-year film is shown at a special screening at a London cinema attended by film industry executives. As well as opportunities in the film and video industries, our graduates have gone on to work in a variety of other related areas in the media and culture industries such as television, advertising, journalism, and teaching.