Filmmaking & Creative Technologies

UCAS code: W600

Here's what Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts says about its Filmmaking & Creative Technologies course.

This filmmaking course prepares you to be part of a new generation of storytellers - a creative practitioner interested in what the industry can be, not just what it has been. Our rigorous and highly practical approach creates versatile professionals capable of crafting exceptional content for film, TV, theatre, concert, interactive and online audiences.

In your first year you learn a range of key production, scriptwriting, filmmaking, lighting, audio and digital desktop skills. These provide you with a base for further exploration and more advanced study in your second year when new skills are also introduced, including studio production, location shooting, motion capture and virtual production. Armed with this knowledge and experience, in your third year you chose three modules that enable you to explore, develop and advance your skills in areas and subjects that reflect your passions and aspirations.

You also have a project module each year to explore ideas and implement your skills to produce and develop films from concept to completion. Each of your projects is guided by mentors to support you through creating the work, providing targeted support throughout the production process.

Number of places each year: 30

/ YEAR ONE: Introduction to Filmmaking / Introduction to Audio / Lighting and Colour / Digital Production / Writing for Camera and Audio / Production Management / Production Management / Project 1

// YEAR TWO: Multi Camera and Studio Creation / Location Filming and Sound / Storytelling Traditions / Storytelling and Screen Cultures / Motion Capture and Virtual Production / Post Production Techniques / Project 2

/// YEAR THREE: Project 3 - core / Directing - option / Cinematography - option / Audio Post Production - option / Live Events and Broadcast Creation - option / Transmedia Storytelling - option / Immersive Media - option / Advanced Post-production - option

You will be assessed through practical and written work. You have regular opportunities for project based learning where you work full-time and collaborate with other students, working in professional conditions to devise and deliver your own projects that grow in complexity as you progress. As well as your practical projects, you undertake a large scale research project which connects to your future career. At the end of each year, you create a portfolio to demonstrate your work.

Practical/written work ratio:

60% practical work / 40% written assignments