MA Feature Filmmaking, PG Dip Feature Filmmaking, PG Cert Feature Filmmaking. at Bath Spa University

This MA in filmmaking will give you an industry-focused education in the business and practice of modern, low-budget feature film production.

Modern filmmaking is collaborative, and we’ve tailored the course for aspiring writers, directors and producers. We’ll help you develop your skills for a career working on feature-length documentaries or fiction.

We teach you how modern filmmakers make feature-length projects, while offering you practical experience of trying to make them yourself.

The course is designed to produce graduates with:

• A range of professional contacts
• A showreel
• A fully developed feature film project
• The knowledge to get ahead in the film business.

We cannot guarantee that your feature film project will get made, although we are confident that many students will achieve this. Your success in academic terms will not depend on your project’s completion.

This is an industry facing course; you’ll build and develop your creative and associated business skills. We believe filmmakers need a clear understanding of business and financial issues to achieve their full creative potential.

Careers

We assume you’re committed to working in the film industry as a creative filmmaker. Through this course, you’ll use low budget feature film to prove your skills as a long form filmmaker.

This experience may lead some producers and directors into work on other films, TV drama or drama documentaries. Producers will build up a series of skills, contacts, and experience that will allow them to develop subsequent projects with greater industry support.

Other students may wish to pursue academic work as lecturers or practitioners. Another potential career route open to graduates will be to use their subsequent project as part of a creative PhD at Bath Spa. Other careers can involve working with arts organisations like the BFI, Creative England or regional screen agencies such as Film London.