Course overview
What does this course offer?
- Develop authorship skills for directing
- Develop technical skills of digital cinematography
- Work in a collaborative environment that follows industry practice
- Develop critical thinking and intellectual skills to reflect, learn and grow as a successful practitioner
- Graduate from the UK’s only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and a recognised Skillset Media Academy
- You will use High Definition broadcast Sony cameras, audio mixers, lighting kits, monitors, dolly and tracking
- A range of visiting speakers will regularly feature in the course, providing a critical cutting edge to the work you will be producing.
Where could this lead to?
This course creates professionals who can understand and produce moving images best suited to the rapidly-changing industry. The growing fragmentation of channels, and convergence of media forms, provides new challenges and opportunities for those equipped to lead and shape the future of the media. The course will develop your ability to help you promote yourself and your project for employment as a director, an author, a ‘content provider’, for this dynamic and evolving media industry.
Who should do this course?
- Graduates with an undergraduate degree (typically 2:1 or above) in any discipline who want to take their expertise and apply it within the media context
- We particularly welcome applicants with an undergraduate degree in the area of media practice
- Applications are also welcome from experienced professionals working within the media industry.
Tell me more....
Graduate from the UK’s only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and a recognised Skillset Media Academy.
This 12 month Masters degree aims to develop your creative authorship skills in directing drama for television and digital film.
We believe that study at postgraduate level is about developing key intellectual and practical skills that not only match industry expectations but also challenge current practice, constantly striving to develop new approaches and techniques. This course is aimed at those with experience of authoring moving image work, either in the industry or during undergraduate study.
At the centre of the creative process of television and digital film is the role of the director. Someone with a sense of vision, a motivator of cast and crew, a mentor and facilitator, a communicator, a problem solver, a collaborator, and a visual storyteller. This course has been designed to build and develop your knowledge of the industry, your story telling skills, your technical understanding, and your knowledge of ethics and regulation, informed by current debates. Our collaborative learning environment is pitched to ensure students work in simulations of industry practice, underpinned by theoretical knowledge. It is this mixture of the practical and the theoretical that ensures our students graduate as lifelong learners, and as “reflective practitioners”.
The Media School has developed a portfolio of courses that are recognised by industry for their high-quality and graduate employability. The portfolio has been designed to facilitate students working with other related disciplines, including MA Writing for the Media, MA Post Production Editing, MA Producing Film and Television, MA Soundtrack, MA Computer Animation and Visualisation.
Students on the course use High Definition broadcast Sony cameras, audio mixers, lighting kits, monitors, dolly and tracking. Students have a base room which provides a production office environment for planning work and seminars, shared with MA Producing Film and Television students. The facilities of the Media School facilitate high-level learning and application of skills.
The Media School has strong links with industry, through our track record of graduate employment and Skillset accreditation. The course itself has been designed in consultation with industry directors (our graduates included) and a range of visiting speakers will regularly feature in the course, providing a critical cutting edge to the work you will be producing.
