12 monthsProgramme duration
21,060 GBPTuition Fee/year
02 Aug, 2026Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Computer Science and Information Systems
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Are you ready to elevate your career in the film and TV industry? This MA enables you to focus your studies on the conceptualisation, design and crafting of props, model-making, animatronics design and fabrication technologies.
This taught course is industry-focused and will provide opportunities for you to engage with a broad range of skills and techniques required within special effects props production for film and TV and associated creative industries.
You’ll delve into the interpretation of scripted and envisioned concepts which will expand your innovative thinking, originality, imagination and develop the practical and problem solving skills to carry the projects through problem-solving to completion.
Upon graduation from this course you will have developed the theoretical and conceptual design approaches within your chosen specialism and the relevant practical skills to produce a polished and functional camera ready product to a professional standard suitable for the creative industries.
You will be supported in the acquisition of knowledge to enable you to work as a freelancer in a competitive industry, enabling you to forge a successful career within your chosen specialism.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Computer Science and Information Systems
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Are you ready to elevate your career in the film and TV industry? This MA enables you to focus your studies on the conceptualisation, design and crafting of props, model-making, animatronics design and fabrication technologies.
This taught course is industry-focused and will provide opportunities for you to engage with a broad range of skills and techniques required within special effects props production for film and TV and associated creative industries.
You’ll delve into the interpretation of scripted and envisioned concepts which will expand your innovative thinking, originality, imagination and develop the practical and problem solving skills to carry the projects through problem-solving to completion.
Upon graduation from this course you will have developed the theoretical and conceptual design approaches within your chosen specialism and the relevant practical skills to produce a polished and functional camera ready product to a professional standard suitable for the creative industries.
You will be supported in the acquisition of knowledge to enable you to work as a freelancer in a competitive industry, enabling you to forge a successful career within your chosen specialism.
Admission Requirements
Due to the technical nature of the programme, applicants whose first-degree discipline is not in a related area of special effects will be considered only if they can demonstrate that they have an appropriately focused portfolio. Likewise, candidates whose existing knowledge or skillset is not up to entry standard at Level 7 will also be required to undertake a short bridging course during the summer before the start of the MA, or be required to undertake an academic research task to develop their knowledge and preparedness for Level 7 study.
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