BA (HONOURS) Film and TV Production at Sheffield Hallam University

• Consider the key techniques and skills required to make different types of films and TV.
• Understand how theory and practice inform and inspire each other.
• Study a practical course with intellectual rigour at its core.
• Learn sustainable filmmaking with a founding member of the BAFTA albert HE Partnership.
• Develop your understanding of working in the creative industries.

On this course, you’ll be inspired and empowered by film and television. You’ll own your own learning, while working collaboratively, and graduate with realistic, confident expectations of what your next steps will be.

This programme offers a distinctive approach to Film and TV production for multiple platforms and a variety of audiences.

The focus is on practice-based learning and professionalism, independent as well as group practice. This reflects industry standards while encouraging innovation and risk taking.

You’ll be trained as an independent creative and technical thinker. You’ll graduate as a fully rounded, collaborative and employable professional — with the skills, knowledge, contacts and experience you need to start an exciting career.

You learn through

• group work
• lectures and seminars
• technical workshops
• industry visits and field trips
• independent study
• practice based learning and group work
• public screening events and film festivals
• distributing and exhibiting your work in the public realm
• our own cinema, The Void

Live projects

You will work on real projects, making documentaries, training films and online content for local and national companies. Recently our students have produced work for the NHS, Sheffield City Council and the Royal Society for the Blind. You can also have your work shown on Sheffield Live, a TV station which broadcasts to the region on Freeview and all digital packages.

In your final year, you’ll make a final, graduation piece, crewing up with your peers and exhibiting your work in a public space, normally The Showroom Cinema. You will engage with industry practices including distribution and exhibition.

Field trips

On each year of the course you take a field trip at no additional cost. In recent years these have included filmmaking in locations such as Liverpool and the Peak District, and trips to film festivals including Glasgow, London and Aesthetica in York. UK field trips that are a required part of the course will be included in your course fees, though additional costs will be required to attend further UK and overseas field trips that are not compulsory, such as the Berlin Film Festival.

Networking opportunities

We are a BBC partner and a sponsor of Sheffield Doc Fest, and also work closely with media companies such as Envy Post Production and Warp Films.

You will develop a two year strategy for your own future development as a filmmaker after the course and you will have the opportunity to visit major studios, post production houses and media businesses and to build professional networks and contacts.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• film and television production
• the creative industries
• marketing and communications
• academia or further studies

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• Pathe
• Lionsgate
• The Mill
• Illuminations
• 2AM Post Production
• BBC
• ITN
• Warp Films
• Tiger Aspect Productions