MA Film Producing

Essential Info

If you work freelance, in a media production company, or want to set up your own creative business, this film producing course will develop your skills and subject knowledge to the high level required to succeed.

Glamorgan’s film producing course will give you the skills to set up your own production company and offers valuable assistance to enter the film, television and media industry. You will consider the creative role of the producer throughout the production process, from working with the writer during development, the director and heads of department during pre-production, production and post-production, and the producer’s role as fund-raiser and financial manager of the entire production.

You can study full-time over one academic year or part-time over two years. There are two exit points before the full MA Film Producing award for extra flexibility. Successful completion of Stage One leads to a Postgraduate Certificate in Film Producing and Business Management, and successful completion of Stage Two leads to a Postgraduate Diploma. You need to complete a final project for the full Masters qualification.

Skillset accredited

Glamorgan’s film producing course is part of the Skillset Media Academy Wales, a partnership of the leading film and media schools in Wales, offering an exceptionally high standard of education that is endorsed by industry. Students on our animation degree will benefit from close contact with the Academy’s Industry Panel, access to professional masterclasses and workshops, networking, jobs and work placements, and the opportunity to promote work through an exclusive online network.

If you choose to study on a postgraduate course at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, you will also benefit from being part of a vibrant international student community.

What You Will Study

The MA Film Producing includes the following modules:

• Understanding Producing
• Business Planning
• Understanding Film Finance
• Aspects of Film Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
• Media Entrepreneurship
• Research Methods (optional)
• Histories and Theories (optional)
• Masters Project

Common Modules

The Faculty understands the importance of a strong grounding in research knowledge and skills, enterprise and innovation as part of a balanced postgraduate education.

We also recognise that each student has different requirements of their postgraduate experience.

You can choose to study one of the following three, 20 credit common modules. Each of these has a different focus, enabling you to select the module that will be most beneficial to you.

Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship

This module aims to develop your knowledge of the methods to identify, develop and manage enterprise and innovation in the creative sector. It will then help you apply this to your own entrepreneurial project.

Research and Practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries

The focus of this module is on the development of research knowledge and skills, while also encouraging critical engagement with approaches to creative practice. You will also explore ideas, debates and issues in the creative and cultural industries.

Research Paradigms

This module focuses on research paradigms and their theoretical underpinnings. It also looks at key conceptual tools drawn from a wide range of subject areas relevant to postgraduate research in the creative industries.

How You Will Study

Each module is delivered by lectures and seminars, and you need to spend a substantial amount of time reading and preparing for assessments. The style of coursework, set at 6000 words or the equivalent, varies for each module, ranging from portfolios, presentations to research-style papers or essays. The Masters involves overseeing an actual production project (a short film).

Learning Through Employment

Learning Through Employment is a University of Glamorgan framework that offers students who are already in employment the opportunity to gain credits towards a postgraduate qualification.

The programme is structured so that the majority of learning takes place through active and reflective engagement with your work activities, underpinned by the appropriate academic knowledge and skills.

All postgraduate courses at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries offer students the opportunity to undertake a 60 credit Learning Through Employment Research Project as an alternative to a traditional final dissertation, major project or production.

The focus of the project is an individual, organisational problem solving, knowledge-based approach.

As such, it has been is designed for practising professionals to provide them with the tools to succeed in the workplace.

This truly flexible approach means that projects can be based on an agreed area of work, benefitting students and employers, and because the majority of the project is carried out in the workplace, it can potentially be undertaken anywhere in the world.

For full details, visit our Learning Through Employment pages.

Possible Career Options

Glamorgan’s MA Film Producing degree will give you the skills to set up your own production company and offers valuable assistance to enter the film, television and media industry

Facilities

Our purpose built ATRiuM campus in Cardiff features state-of-the-art facilities for audio and video production and editing, graphic design, studio recording and more. The building is an engine room for the next generation of media practitioners and thinkers. Read more on our facilities page