Film and Television Production
Anglia Ruskin University
UCAS Code: P315 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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About this course
Turn a passion for film into a career by joining our acclaimed BA (Hons) Film and Television Production degree course at ARU.
Join our award-winning students and develop your skills in cinematography, editing, producing and directing in studio and on
location. You’ll shoot on film, digital and analogue 16mm film, and gain key skills, from ideas development and preproduction
planning, through to post production skills in sound design and colour grading. Learn from highly experienced filmmakers,
television producers and technical officers in our specialist facilities.
You’ll work closely with other students on your course, as well as your lecturers, gaining friends as well as skills like teamwork
and collaboration.
If your career aspirations are to crew on high end TV Drama or film, set up your own company as a videographer, create
innovative online content, reinvent what television is or use film to make change in the world, the skills you learn on this course
will set you up to start that journey.
As a BA (Hons) Film and Television Production student at ARU, you will be supported by award-winning lecturers whose work
has been screened on all the major UK television networks, as well as at multiple international film festivals. They have won
Emmys, HUGOs and BAFTAs and continue to practice.
With their encouragement, you'll produce a rage of programmes and films which may ultimately be as prize and film festival
worthy as recent student work. Our second year documentary, Tertiary Sound was officially selected for the BFI London Film
Festival and in competitions like the Royal Television Society (East) Student Awards, our students have a growing tradition of
success. In 2019, ARU Film Production students scooped up Best Drama, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Camera,
Best Sound and Best Writing at the RTS (East) student awards, cementing the course’s reputation as a national centre of
excellence.
You’ll have access to a series of guest lectures and workshops led by industry professionals where you’ll learn more about
industry practices, receive invaluable advice and have an opportunity to network with visiting film and programme makers.
Past speakers have included, directors Ben Wheatly (High Rise, Free Fire), Chloe Thomas (Victoria, Harlots), Roger Michell
(Notting Hill, Enduring Love); producers Laura Hasting-Smith (Macbeth, Hunger, Howards End), Oliver Kassman (Saint Maude,
and a BAFTA Breakthough winner); cinematographers Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave, Hunger) and Robbie Ryan (Red Road, I
Daniel Blake, American Honey); sound designers Larry Sider and Adele Fletcher; Emmy Award-winning documentary director,
Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon, Presumed Guilty) and BBC Commissioning Editor for Storyville, Mandy Chang.
Modules
Year 1:
Core modules
Film Drama: Production and Practices
Screen Skills
Talking Pictures
Television Production and Practice
Year 2:
Core modules
Story on Screen: Production and Practice
Advanced Screen Skills
Debates and Practices
Ruskin Module (15 credits)
Year 3:
Core modules
Graduation Films and Portfolio
Optional modules
Research Project
Working in the Creative Industries
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