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BA (Hons) Film Production with Integrated Foundation Year

Passionate about film? Excited about movies? Want to work in film or produce high-end TV? Do you want the opportunity to direct short films and documentaries? Or are you interested in becoming a cinematographer or editor? If you’ve said yes to any of these questions, this course is for you.

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UCAS codeP315
Duration4 years
Fee (UK)£9,790
LocationOn campus

Course summary

Passionate about film? Excited about movies? Want to work in film or produce high-end TV? Do you want the opportunity to direct short films and documentaries? Or are you interested in becoming a cinematographer or editor? If you’ve said yes to any of these questions, this course is for you.

Explore filmmaking, documentary production, directing, cinematography, and scriptwriting or editing. Develop practical skills and theoretical knowledge that'll set you up for your own exciting and rewarding career. Turn your creativity into reality.

Through practical projects, you'll develop skills in:

  • Screenwriting
  • Camera
  • Sound
  • Editing
  • Lighting
  • Colour grading
  • Producing
  • Directing.

Learn from our experienced and skilled lecturing team, using first-class equipment. From day one, you’ll have access to:

  • Specialised digital cameras
  • Sound recording equipment
  • Lighting kit
  • Steadicam rigs
  • Professional editing software packages, such as Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premier Pro, and Da Vinci Resolve.

This degree prepares you for careers in the film and TV industries. Your training in communication, teamwork, and creativity will also be 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
  • 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.

Integrated Foundation Year

This course is also available with an Integrated Foundation Year. The Integrated Foundation Year route is an additional year built into your degree, designed to support your success and help you progress with confidence.

If you have valuable work or life experience but no formal qualifications, are returning to education after a break, or want to change direction and explore a new career path, the Integrated Foundation Year offers a supportive way to transition into university study.

If you’ve just missed the entry requirements for a three-year course, the Integrated Foundation Year offers a supportive route to start your university journey.

We’re excited to be enhancing our Integrated Foundation Year to give you an even stronger start to your degree. The updated modules will be more aligned with your chosen subject area and carefully designed to build the knowledge, confidence and skills you’ll use throughout your studies. Full details will be shared soon. We can’t wait to tell you more.

Please note, this route isn’t available to international students.

Accreditations and approvals

The on-campus version of this course is accredited by ScreenSkills, the industry-led body for the screen industries.

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What you'll study

Many of our courses include a range of modules you can choose from. Some of these options may only be available if you’ve already studied specific required modules. If you’re not sure what you need before picking a module, your course leader can help.

Undergraduate module credits should total 120 credits per academic year. If optional modules are available alongside core modules on your course, you should choose an amount that totals 120 credits.

How you'll learn

Teaching methods include lectures, demonstrations, workshops, seminars, screenings, and project work. Project work will include individual projects and group work. You'll learn practical skills and develop your knowledge in a variety of filmmaking roles to set you up for a career in the film and TV industry.

Our teaching methods develop subject-specific knowledge and transferable skills that enhance employability. These include skills in communication, analysis, research, teamwork, writing, and presentations.

Assessment methods include practical work (short films, documentaries, advertisements, music videos, showreels, scripts), production files, essays, examinations, reports, and presentations.

Entry requirements

Fees and finance support

UK£9,790

Undergraduate fees are set according to rules from Government in line with forecast inflation. If you're a Home fee-paying student, the fee for your first year of study for 2026/27 will be £9,790. You'll pay tuition fees for every year of study. Fees may increase every year based on the Retail Price Index.

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Study Centre fees

If you're studying at a study centre, please contact the centre directly for information on fees.

If you're a full-time UK/Irish/EU settled/EU pre-settled student on the Integrated Foundation Year route, you may be eligible to receive financial support to cover your fees for the full four years. UK and EU settled students may also be eligible to receive a maintenance loan.

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UK students

Please note, our Integrated Foundation Year courses are not available to international students.

Disclaimer

We want to make sure you have clear and accurate information about our courses. Our website always shows the latest updates. If you’ve applied and been offered a place, we’ll contact you in writing if anything important changes.

View our programme specifications(opens in new tab) for further information about what the course covers, learning outcomes and the skills you'll gain when you graduate.