Film Production BA (Hons)
Launch your career in film on our Screenskills-accredited course. Work in our thriving media centre's sector-leading studios. Turn your creative vision into reality alongside our award-winning students.
Career ready
This degree prepares you for careers in the film and TV industries. Your training in communication, teamwork, and creativity will be highly relevant to roles in many different businesses and in the public sector.
Our graduates have gained employment working as freelance crew on film sets and TV shows in a variety of roles such as camera trainee, Foley artist, cinematographer, digital content manager, production manager, editor, director, producer, script supervisor, sound recordist, production coordinator, and digital imaging technician.
Previous employers include the BBC, ITV, Pinewood Studios, and a huge variety of independent production companies. Other graduates take a more entrepreneurial route and have set up their own production/media companies.
Work experience
We actively encourage you to gain relevant work experience while at university. In every year of your course, you'll be guided and encouraged to gain meaningful experience that'll fit around your studies.
You'll undertake a number of practice modules throughout your course, which can include live briefs from clients from outside the University.
Creative Industries Week
Creative Industries Week gives everyone studying Arts and Creative Industries courses the opportunity to participate in a range of projects, workshops, talks, industry visits, and career events. This exciting week encourages interdisciplinary working and broadens your experience to build your confidence and help develop your career path.
Offering a change of pace from the usual class timetable, Creative Industries Week gives you a chance to consider career options, network with staff and students from different courses, and get a wider view of the creative industries. We encourage you to attend as many activities as possible and try something new.
Industry-relevant teaching
BA Film Production is accredited by ScreenSkills who awards the quality mark of the Tick to practice-based degree courses that most effectively provide students with the skills and knowledge required by employers in the screen industries.
For employers, the Tick signposts work-ready graduates and apprentices from creative courses that have proven to understand and have links with the screen industry.
Graduates from Tick courses have privileged access to Trainee Finder, a service that matches trainees with companies across the UK’s animation, film, games, high-end TV, and VFX industries.
Meet the students
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I’m only a few weeks into the course but I'm loving it already and really like being in Sunderland.
Edmund Flyte
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I have successfully landed a role as a full-time Videographer for a media company
Isaac Johnson
