Film and Television Production - BA (Hons) at Anglia Ruskin University

Overview

Develop your passion for storytelling on our full-time Film and Television Production degree. Our students succeed in industry and frequently win awards. Choose to study for one semester in the Netherlands, and get support to find placements and work experience. Get the experience, skills and connections for a range of careers in the film and television industry.

Careers

We work with employers to make sure you graduate with the knowledge, skills and abilities they need. They help us review what we teach and how we teach it – and they offer hands-on, practical opportunities to learn through work-based projects, internships or placements.

Find out more about our placements and work experience, or the faculty's employability support.

This course will prepare you for employment or self-employment in film and television industries and the ever-expanding field of screen content including music, dance, marketing and fashion promos, as well as drama and documentary.

We place an emphasis on creativity and storytelling, as well as solid, transferable skills such as teamwork, communication, problem solving, resourcefulness, and risk management.

You’ll also learn highly valued specialist skills such as editing, cinematography, production management, budgeting, producing and directing – invaluable as you launch a career in this highly competitive but growing and diverse creative industry.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for the BBC, Ridley Scott Associates, Marmalade Productions, Vice, Envy Post-Production, Brand Anonymous, Sommersault Video Productions, DMED Productions (Paris) as well as securing work (and experience) on feature films such as Pride, The Theory of Everything, Kick-Ass 2, Storage 24, Berberian Sound Studio, Ill Manors; TV productions such as 24: Live Another Day, EastEnders, Holby City, and Fortitude, as well as numerous commercials and music promos. Others have formed their own production companies or established themselves as freelance editors, cinematographers, production managers and even script supervisors.

Some specific examples include:

• Jamie-Leigh Richmond (graduated 2018): runner for Task Master, now working on Great British Bake Off
• Poppy Billet (graduated 2017): gallery runner for 24hrs in A&E, Britain's Got Talent and ITV Studios, currently Localisation Post Production Runner at Pinewood Group Limited
• Amy Willet (graduated from BA and MA 2014): worked on Flog It and for BBC Natural History Unit, now production coordinator at Plimsoll Productions
• Sam Cornish (graduated 2014): Production Executive at Genesius Pictures Ltd, creators of BAFTA-nominated and NME Best Film of 2014-winning Northern Soul; The More You Ignore Me, written by BAFTA winner Jo Brand, and Mrs Lowry and Son, starring Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave.