Master in Film Practice
Arts University Bournemouth
Key Information
Campus location
Poole, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 8,000 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* UK: £8,000/year full-time, £4,000/year part-time; EU/non-EU/Channel Islands and Isle of Man: £18,500/year full-time, £9,250/year part-time
Introduction
MA Film practice is for talented and emerging filmmakers seeking to learn through making, to look beyond the short film, to define themselves as artists within film practice and to gain that vital experience demanded by the industry.
MA Film Practice
MA Film Practice offers you the chance to develop your independent practice, specialist prowess and creative potential, within a unique filmmaking culture that is supported by experts with a wide range of skills. You'll also have access to high-quality technical resources.
This course is part of Bournemouth Film School, along with BA (Hons) Film Production, MA Animation Production, BA (Hons) Animation Production, as well as BA (Hons) Visual Effects (VFX) for Film and Television. Together we make up the largest film school outside of London.
Course Duration
- 1 year (full-time, 45 weeks)
Course Leader
Andrew Vallance – Course Leader
PhD, Royal College of ArtMA (distinction), Royal College of Art; BA (1st Class), Kent Institute of Art and Design
My research concerns memory and film, how it can show and write memory and History, through examining what is its cultural and experiential effect.
Course Philosophy
“It doesn’t have anything to do with the budget of the film. It has to do with the scope and scale of ambition, and the skill that people brought to it to realize that ambition.” James Schamus – Producer.
Studying alongside the seminal and celebrated BA (Hons) Film Production course, as well as the award-winning courses BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design, BA (Hons) Make-up for Media and Performance, BA (Hons) Animation Production, BA (Hons) Acting, BA (Hons) Modelmaking and BA (Hons) Creative Writing, the MA Film Practice course offers a unique learning environment.
MA Film Practice is driven and inspired by a broad understanding of film practice. On this course, you will be inspired to create and hone your craft as well as developing new skills to a high level, all in an environment that empowers students to collaborate with other emerging artists and filmmakers that can extend beyond the course and into the industry.
You’ll be given the opportunity to propose a project where you will define your own research questions and methodologies, consider subject-related developments and engage with relevant contextual and critical discourses. This programme of study will result in a bespoke portfolio of work you will be able to use to take you into the next stage of your career.
Your interview and portfolio
As part of your application, we’d like to see a portfolio of your work.
Application Deadline
Applications are open for 2021 entry.
You can apply from November and there is no set deadline for applications.
It’s worth remembering that overseas applicants who pay the full tuition fees by 1 August will receive a 10% discount.
We encourage you to apply early so that you have time to organise accommodation and to arrange for a visa (if required) before you enrol.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course Outline
MA Film Practice represents an exciting opportunity for students to challenge and build on their previous achievements and to study at an advanced level. Students deepen their knowledge and their ability to focus on their chosen field in relation to the key aspects that inform it.
This uniquely positioned specialist programme offers the opportunity for students to develop and realise their creative ambitions through practice-based research. The course is underpinned by a team of specialist tutors who are experienced practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of film practice modes.
You’ll be inspired to create and hone your craft as well as developing new skills to a high level, all in an environment that empowers students to collaborate with other emerging artists and filmmakers. MA Film Practice is based on our 180 credit MA framework. The awards attainable are a Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits) and a Masters (180 credits).
This uniquely positioned specialist programme offers the opportunity for students to develop and realise their creative ambitions through practice-based research. The course is underpinned by a team of specialist tutors who are experienced practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of film practice modes.
Unit 1, Strategies for Practice: Identification
This unit consists of film exercises, workshops and seminars that relate to the fundamentals of film and further develop your contextual framework and the conceptualisation of your practice.
The unit encourages you to develop more authorial focus, through independent study and group collaborations; a process that emphasises and focuses analytical and critical awareness. Experienced filmmakers, whether working in narrative, documentary and/or artistic traditions, will be challenged to assess and articulate all that constitutes their practice. And if your first degree was in a subject other than film the unit’s components offer developmental opportunities, the acquisition of new technical comprehension, subject appreciation and practice related application.
Throughout this unit you will be engaged in practice-based research, identifying the appropriate method and methodology (relevant processes, ideas, works, theories), which will aid the generation of new understanding and work (audio/visual exercises and experiments that will aid the development of form and content for your Masters Project). As the unit progresses, you’ll reflect on your intentions, refine your project’s objectives and design its outcome (which could be a documentary, fiction, experimental or sound work etc.) in preparation for the next two units, Masters Project 1 and 2.
Masters Project 1: Research
The second unit concerns the further focusing of your research and the practical development of your specific interests. This unit brings together the first unit’s taught progress with your practice related intentions and will determine your study’s final manifestation. The application of research methods, the interrogation of contextual and conceptual issues, the planning of project production, will lead into the next unit, Master’s Project 2: Resolution. This process will be augmented by specialist tutorials and presentations and critiques with both staff and students. The unit will require you to articulate and formalise your visual and sonic intentions (e.g. film, soundscape, material experiment, performance) and how they will be realised in a Learning Agreement.
Masters Project 2: Resolution
In the third unit, you’ll implement your project plan, which has been identified in the Learning Agreement, producing a completed work. You’ll also evaluate your progress and assess the project’s means of presentation (e.g. single screen and/or installation) and dissemination (e.g. festival and/or digital platform) resolving the outcomes of your project in ways that communicate to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Gallery
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarships and Bursaries for EU & International Students
At AUB we aim to have a diverse student environment with the best creative talent and have a large number of bursaries and scholarships available, ranging from £2,000 to £20,000. These are awarded for every year of your course, giving you financial support throughout your time studying with us. All applicants are automatically considered. Find out more here.