MA Film (Full Time)
Length: 1 Year
Course overview
If you are a visual arts or media graduate, or you work in the media, and you want to explore the creative and commercial possibilities of your work, then our MA Media Programme is ideal for you.
|The MA Media Programme includes the following awards:
Master's students will thoroughly develop their particular production specialisms (Directing, Producing, Cinematography, Sound, Post-Production) in an informed and dynamic creative environment. Utilising Standard Digital, High Definition or Film (Super16mm/35mm) formats, professional film and television practioners will afford a critical setting for students to experiment, test, and develop original ideas and concepts. A focus on aesthetic forms and contexts will frame filmic debates and practices with regard to script content and expression. Students have the latitude to define their own needs and to develop a range of formal methods.
We pride ourselves on the contact our staff have with students - which is much higher than on most MAs. What's more, staff have links with external media bodies, including Abbey Road Productions, the BBC and the Royal Television Society.
Using our extensive facilities, including a newly updated digital studio, you'll have an excellent forum for research and experimentation.
Course content
The MA is half taught and half by project or dissertation. Students may submit a studio-based piece, or a written dissertation. Students learn together on the four core taught units and then select the options unit and project work most suitable for their chosen pathway.
The course consists of four taught units on:
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Professional Development
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Perspectives on Media Culture
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Creative Practice Project
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Research Seminar
Further optional taught units are:
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Media Critiques and Moral Panics: Sex, Scandal and Celebrity
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Issues in Contemporary Film Theory
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Digital Studio
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Writing for Screen & Stage
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Persuasion in the Media Age: Writing for Integrated Marketing Communications
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Corporate Public Relations
The studio-based areas offered are:
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Media Writing
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Web Site Design
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Multitrack Sound and Music Production
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Video
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Film
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Interactive Media
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Photography
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Media-Related Installation and Site Work
Assessment
The assessment ranges from presentations of creative work through to written essays, project work and exams.
Entry level
An Honours Degree at 2.1 or above in Media Studies, Multimedia, Interactive Production, Media Production, Digital Media, Advertising, Journalism, Film, Public Relations, Media Writing or other related subject.
Or:
A HND or degree in a related subject combined with a minimum 2 years relevant professional experience.
Or:
Professional experience, together with a portfolio evidencing a skills base in a related area.
If English is not your first language then we request a minimum IELTs score of 7.0.
All applicants will be interviewed.
Special features
We believe we are the only MA Programme in the country that offers this level of choice in terms of pathways. Students all come together in the shared units to create an atmosphere of scholarship and broader understanding, then they separate into more focussed study in the options units through their selected pathways. When they have met the requirements they are awarded the title that reflects their focussed area of study, eg MA Media, MA Film, MA Media Writing, MA Interactive Production, Mprof Practice
This course is supported by five by five, part of the Lawton Communications Group.
Career opportunities
Most of our students are already employed in the media industries and are hoping to develop their skills to help them to qualify for promotion.
Graduates can pursue careers in television studies and production, magazine, print and broadcast journalism and screenwriting, as well as public relations and advertising. Applicants interested in entering the freelance market where opportunities for journalistic and creative writing feed to radio, TV and magazine markets will also benefit from the content of this course.
Attendance
The taught element of the course (full time and part time) will usually take place on Wednesdays and/or Thursdays. Students should plan to be available for the entire day to attend classes.
Special facilities
Extensive media-related digital studios and a dedicated MA study space.
Field trips
Opportunities to go on trips to Paris and Prague and maybe Los Angeles.
Fees
Fees for the 2010-2011 academic year are :
Full-time: UK and EU students - £3,485; Overseas students - £8,895
Part-time: UK and EU students - £1,745; Overseas students - £4,500pa
Contact
For further information on the course please contact the:
Faculty of Media, Arts and Society
Tel: 023 8031 9653
E-mail: fmas@solent.ac.uk|
International Students please contact the International Recruitment Office:
Tel: +44 (0) 23 8031 9129
Fax: +44 (0) 23 8031 9412
E-mail: international@solent.ac.uk|
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