Film MA is a postgraduate degree at Edinburgh Napier University, based in Edinburgh, taught full-time over 1 year. 68% of final-year students rated the course positively in the National Student Survey.
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About this course
With emphasis on collaboration, this course has been designed to help you embark on a career as a professional fiction filmmaker in one of the following disciplines:
- producing
- directing
- cinematography
- editing
- location sound recording and design
Teaching is through a combination of collaborative shared modules and modules that focus on individual disciplines. The two core practice-based modules complement each other, concentrating on professional practice within the framework of the industry crew structure.
Coursework consists of a large number of practical exercises, workshops and short film projects that allow students to deepen their own technical, creative and professional filmmaking skills. The course also includes a degree of research in your chosen discipline, and a theoretical module on critical film study.
The year's work and study culminates in a major project module in which students continue to work collaboratively, in their chosen disciplines, on one or more short scripted dramas.
This course is industry recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based industries and carries the ScreenSkills Select endorsement which indicates courses best suited to prepare students for a career in the screen industries.
The course is studied at the Screen Academy Scotland, a ScreenSkills recognised Film Academy.
Career Prospects
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Course Details
- Qualification
- MA
- Study Mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- 1 Year
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Edinburgh
- Scheme
- Postgraduate
- Subjects
- Film studies, Photography
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