Filmmaking MA
- Level(s) of Â鶹ÊÓƵ: Postgraduate taught
- Start Date(s): September 2023
- Duration: 1 year
- Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mode(s): Full-time
- Campus: City Campus
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Entry Requirements:
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Introduction:
Situated within the Nottingham School of Art & Design, the MA in Filmmaking challenges students to innovate within and beyond the boundaries of moving-image-making practices. You will be exploring and experimenting in both film production and exhibition, enhanced by intellectually stimulating discussions and workshops.
During your studies, you will create new and refreshing projects that communicate your cinematic voice, using moving image and sound to experiment with virtual production, emerging and established technologies, and drawing on analogue practices where appropriate.
Collaborating with creative practitioners across the school, you will undertake projects to advance your research and experimentation skills in moving image arts.
The MA Filmmaking is suitable for all creative practitioner’s keen to undertake research-informed projects in the continuously transforming field of independent and experimental filmmaking.
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If you have the desire to enhance your understanding of film and push the boundaries of the moving image, then MA Filmmaking is for you. This course supports you to artistically utilise the evolving landscape of sound and image to prepare you for a leading role in shaping the cinema of the future. -
Respond creatively with film techniques to intellectual discussions, leading to innovation in the digital manipulation and capturing of sound and moving image. -
Supported by seminars and one-to-one tutorials approach filmmaking as a creative process, involving experimentation and critical reflection. -
With an emphasis on film exhibition and distribution, influence how audiences engage with your work by taking part in the organisation of a film festival.
What you’ll study
Careers and employability
The course is designed with various opportunities for engagement with the creative industries and integrates work-like experiences.
Guest lectures will be delivered by experts in their field. The course has contacts with independent filmmakers who draw on research and experimentation, producers who are successful in obtaining funding for moving image art, curators of works that sit outside the mainstream, and specialists (sound, camera, etc.) frequently working in the field of independent or experimental cinema.
The 100-credit module Film Project follows a work-like trajectory from development to exhibition. Students present a proposal to an industry panel and will receive advice on how to progress. After the completion of their projects, an end-of-year festival will be organised following a guest lecture on film festival curation. The festival itself is an outward-facing event to further support engagement with industry and networking with the wider community, locally and internationally.
Campus and facilities
How to apply
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Application deadline
You can apply for this course throughout the year, but we'd recommend that applications should be received by the end of July for entry in September.
Examples of work
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For full details on what we require, please read our Masters Work Submission information.
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Your portfolio
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