Filmmaking (Screen Documentary) MA

**This MA will develop your skills and creative vision in documentary production. It enhances your understanding of the historical context and contemporary modes of documentary production against a backdrop of the wider issues in media production.**<br/><br/><br/>- This Masters, a pathway of the MA Filmmaking, will encourage your understanding of the politics, aesthetics and ethics of documentary production, and the nature and diversity of documentary practice in contemporary society.<br/><br/><br/>- The programme is housed in a new purpose-built media facility equipped with state-of-the-art teaching spaces including a range of digital cameras, Avid Media Composer, and Adobe Premiere Film Editing suites, Digital Special Effects, Pro Tools Audio Postproduction suites.<br/><br/><br/>- You will be able to make your own documentaries, learning and refining research, interviewing, self-shooting and editing techniques. The programme encourages you to develop your own distinctive authorial voice and gain a range of skills that will make you highly employable.<br/><br/><br/>- You work on at least two films during the year, culminating in a major production towards the end of the degree. In addition you can attend classes in related disciplines such as Cinematography and Editing. This framework is designed to provide you with a breadth of filmmaking knowledge combined with a high level of expertise in your chosen filmmaking discipline.<br/><br/><br/>- The MA encourages you to develop:<br/><br/><br/>an awareness of documentary production techniques, ethics and aesthetics<br/>specific filmmaking and production management skills<br/>technical skills (including camera, lighting and sound editing)<br/>an understanding of the workings of the media and their broad cultural and social impacts<br/>- The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies has been ranked second in the UK for world-leading or internationally excellent research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings for communication and media studies.