Study Details: MA 1 year full-time
Visualise and create stories for screen. Combine art and science, theory and practice to explore all aspects of cinematography for single-camera film and television production.
While learning the technical, practical and aesthetic principles of lighting and camerawork, you'll work with industry-standard equipment, in our creative and supportive environment. You’ll gain theoretical and technical experience and will develop and shoot your own project to high professional standards.
We'll teach you through a mix of workshops, lectures, screenings and masterclasses with leading academics and industry professionals. Our focus on practical group projects, with hands-on work, will prepare you for a career collaborating with others on set and on location.
You'll develop essential expertise for meeting the challenges of a career in film and television. Our graduates have gone on to roles in British and European film industries, and in film, TV and commercial production in China, Latin America and the Middle East.
2:2 or equivalent, and evidence of professional experience or a commitment to film making.
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A large number of TFTI graduates have made striking progress in their careers since completing their course. There’s a wide variety of possible career paths open to you after completing this MA, both across industry and academia. While you train to be a professional in television and film you’ll also develop skills that are useful in any industry.
You’ll study 5 core modules, including an extended individual project over the Summer period.
Our modules will give you an aesthetic and technical grounding in visual storytelling, for both fiction and non-fiction productions, developed with the skilled use of our ARRI, RED and Sony camera systems on your core Digital Cinematography I and II modules. All our modules stress the importance of creative and technical collaboration within the creative process, and provide you with opportunities to work closely with like-minded students developing original content.
Core Modules:
Digital Cinematography I
Digital Cinematography II
Grading, Effects & Finishing
Group Projects
Individual Project
Option modules:
You will also study one option module each semester.
Directing for Film and Television I
Business of Production and Postproduction
Spatial Audio & Surround Sound
Audio Production and Postproduction Workflows
Storytelling and Cultural Communication in Film and Television
Some option module combinations may not be possible. The option available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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