BA (Hons) Film and Video Production

UCAS code: W621

Start date: September

Course length: full time: three years, part time: up to six years - please contact the faculty for further information.

Campus: Markeaton Street site, Derby Campus

This course is available to international students

You'll explore the potential of moving images using both film and digital video. It will encourage you to be original and highly creative enabling you to explore your personal agenda, use your imagination, be experimental, take risks, think and act professionally, and encourages your desire to communicate with an audience.

We'll encourage you to anticipate and adapt to change, analyse, evaluate and reflect on information and experiences, and make independent judgments. You'll explore the exciting and challenging areas of film and video practice, and be able to fully engage with new digital technologies.

You will build up the knowledge and practical skills that are essential in a wide variety of careers, from moving image artists to documentary and narrative filmmakers. And we'll encourage you to develop a sound theoretical perspective on both your own work and the work of other mainstream, independent and avant-garde filmmakers.

This course is one of only a handful in the UK that offers you the opportunity to work with celluloid film as a medium. You'll learn about the equipment and software that is currently being used in the moving image sectors, so you'll be ready to start work in the industry when you graduate.

You could also continue with your studies on our MA Film and Photography course, or start work in the diverse sectors of moving image production that exist nationally and internationally.

You'll study a total of 120 credits per year. This will be made up of single or double modules.

Stage one

You'll study modules such as:

• Image, Industry and Analysis
• Introduction to Scriptwriting
• Filmmakers Toolkit 1
• Script to Screen: Crew-based Production 1
• Filmmaking Techniques 1
• Filmmakers Toolkit 2

Stage two

You'll study modules such as:

• The Wider Screen
• Creative Story Design for Film and Video Production
• Technical Processes - Advanced
• Research Methods for Filmmakers
• Script to Screen: Crew-based Production 2
• Filmmaking Techniques 1

Diploma in Professional Practice (optional)

You'll study modules such as:

• Applied Professional Practice
• Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice

Stage three

You'll study modules such as:

• Research Methods for Filmmakers
• Negotiated Filmmaking Techniques
• Negotiated Screen Projects
• Independent Creative Practice
• Exhibition, Distribution and Promotion

Our entry requirements are usually 260 UCAS points, of which at least 220 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc.

We'll accept up to 40 points towards the total from level 3 qualifications such as AS levels (where those AS levels are not taken on to A2 level), the Extended Project or Music qualifications.

We don't accept points from Key Skills Level 3. If you have any questions about what is or isn't accepted, please contact our Admissions team.

We also accept the Access to HE Diploma.

Your points at level 3 will be in addition to 5 GCSEs at grade C or equivalent level 2 qualifications.

The UCAS tariff points are a guide - we'll also consider all the information that you've included in your application, your portfolio, and how you've done in your interview. We'll also want to see that you're enthusiastic and motivated to take this course and that you have the potential to benefit from coming to university.

General undergraduate entry requirements

This is a specialist course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £8,800 (each year)
• £1,100 per module (you usually take 18 of these modules in total)

International students

• Full time: £10,510 (per year)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

A wide variety of teaching and learning methods are used within the BA Film and Video Production programme including lectures, seminars, collaborative work, tutorials, practical workshops, screenings, peer group critiques and discussion, negotiated and independent study.

Please contact the Programme Leader for information on how you'll be assessed.

You can also gain vital hands on experience by taking an optional industrial placement for one year between stages two and three. During your placement you'll gain an additional qualification, the Diploma in Professional Practice, which consists of two modules - Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice and Applied Professional Practice.

Find out more about placements

We're equipped for production and post-production in 16mm film and digital video technologies and have designed the course to develop your potential in this fascinating industry.

Graduate James Knott now works with fellow graduate Adi Kerr and the pair are freelancers working in different sectors of the broadcast industry. They were approached by the worlds largest house music label, Defected to produce a 60 minute documentary, and they've also worked for BBC, ITV, Radio 1 and MTV.

We also provide support for graduates starting out in the creative industries, through our incubation unit - Banks Mill.  It offers studio workspace and business development activities, in a vibrant and thriving community of artists, designers and makers.