Filmmaking
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityManchester, United Kingdom
Course overview
In the changing world of contemporary filmmaking, there is an increasing range of possibilities for future storytelling across different media and platforms. MA Filmmaking course explores filmmaking within a wide range of professional contexts. This includes a distinctive focus on short form filmmaking, spanning narrative, documentary, artistic and technological practices across a range of platforms.
You will be encouraged to develop an authorial voice using a wide range of creative, conceptual and technological approaches to communicate your ideas and observations. Working with established te
Key highlights
- Practice-based course focused on developing your own creative voice
- Blends digital art and film school approaches to learning
- Explore narrative fiction, documentary and artist-led filmmaking
- Optional placement year available as part of the degree
Entry requirements
- UCAS tariff points: 104-112 — 104-112 UCAS tariff points GCE A levels - grades BCC or equivalent Pearson BTEC National Extended Diploma - grade DMM Access to HE Diploma - Pass overall with a minimum 106 UCAS Tariff points UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma…
- Degree: 2:2 — to include relevant discipline; or above
- A-level: BCC — or equivalent
- BTEC: DMM — BTEC National Extended Diploma
- Access to HE Diploma — Pass overall with a minimum 106
- Additional condition: portfolio — We will ask for a portfolio of your work as part of your application.
- GCSE: C/4 — to include English Language, English
- International Baccalaureate: 26 — overall or 104 U
Scholarships
Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust Scholarships
The scholarship award will cover the programme tuition fees of £22,000 and includes a bursary of £11,250.
Up to £22,000Business School International Postgraduate Scholarship
£5,000 in the first year of study.
Up to £5,000Postgraduate International Scholarship
£5,000 tuition fee scholarship in the first year of study for most eligible postgraduate taught courses. £3,000 tuition fee scholarship in the first year of study for the selected programmes.
Careers this course leads to
- Film Director
- Documentary Filmmaker
- Video Editor
- Cinematographer
- Screenwriter
- Producer
Cost of study
UK/Home: £12,000 per year | International: £22,000 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Manchester Metropolitan University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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