12 monthsProgramme duration
40,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
25 Jul, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
The Ethnographic and Documentary Film Practical MA will provide you with training in the theoretical and technical skills to produce documentary films of varied lengths for varied audiences.
- Learn to critically view and review film material, drawing on anthropological and social science approaches to documentary, and think critically about the relationship between form and content in documentary film practice.
- Teaching is undertaken in small studios, each led by a practicing non-fiction filmmaker. All studios encourage originality and formal experimentation. The ‘DocFiction’ studio explores the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, bringing elements of performance into documentary filmmaking. This studio has a cap of 18 students.
- You will learn to produce creative and compelling films and will graduate having been trained to translate your ideas and interests into film to a professional standard.
In addition to your core practical filmmaking, you will take two optional modules from a range of modules offered in the Public Anthropology section of the department. These modules will support you to develop further practical skills from audio production to feature writing or pursue more academic interests from an introduction to social theory to the history of documentary cinema and will enrich your appreciation and understanding of factual storytelling in different contexts.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
The Ethnographic and Documentary Film Practical MA will provide you with training in the theoretical and technical skills to produce documentary films of varied lengths for varied audiences.
- Learn to critically view and review film material, drawing on anthropological and social science approaches to documentary, and think critically about the relationship between form and content in documentary film practice.
- Teaching is undertaken in small studios, each led by a practicing non-fiction filmmaker. All studios encourage originality and formal experimentation. The ‘DocFiction’ studio explores the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, bringing elements of performance into documentary filmmaking. This studio has a cap of 18 students.
- You will learn to produce creative and compelling films and will graduate having been trained to translate your ideas and interests into film to a professional standard.
In addition to your core practical filmmaking, you will take two optional modules from a range of modules offered in the Public Anthropology section of the department. These modules will support you to develop further practical skills from audio production to feature writing or pursue more academic interests from an introduction to social theory to the history of documentary cinema and will enrich your appreciation and understanding of factual storytelling in different contexts.
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