Advanced Film Practice - MFA - Full Time

This one year course gives you the chance to develop, produce and complete a short cinema film to professional standards. In parallel with this you will develop your creative and professional skills through practical exercises and master classes with leading industry practitioners. You will be working in a busy filmmaking hub in the culturally vibrant city of Edinburgh. We offer great scope for collaboration, with more than 200 students engaged in film activities – from cinematography and editing to documentary and animation

As an aspiring screenwriter, director or producer, you'll be aware of the importance of hands-on experience that leads to finished projects. Apart from acquiring practical skills, you'll create projects that can form the basis of your portfolio. In this course, you'll develop your existing skills to a near-professional level, collaborating with students and working practitioners alike to create a fully funded short film, documentary, feature film script or similar finished creative product. Through visiting speakers and industry-based teaching staff, you'll make contacts that will help you navigate your way into this highly competitive industry. Your qualification carries Screen Academy status, the only film qualification in Scotland to offer this, and one of only a few throughout the UK. On entry into this course, you will already have demonstrated advanced skills in production, direction or screenwriting. By graduation, you will have honed these skills and added to them, exiting the course at a level that approaches professional standard. You'll learn techniques that will allow you to further develop your creative voice, plus the production skills necessary to bring a film project to completion. As you will be working on a project of your own, with a real budget and collaborative team, these skills will be consolidated through practical experience. Film maker Professionally accredited by: This course has been awarded the Creative Skillset Tick, the industry kitemark of quality, following a rigorous assessment process by experts working in the Creative Industries. The Creative Skillset Tick is awarded to practice-based courses which best prepare students for a career in the industry. See the Screen Academy Scotland website for more information. View Full Screen

What's involved

Requirements at a glanceEntry to the courseUsual requirements for admission to the MFA Advanced Film Practice programme are an honours degree and a Masters in a film-related discipline. We may consider candidates who possess professional or semi-professional experience equivalent to formal qualifications.All applicants must submit a portfolio of work that best shows their abilities as a screenwriter, producer or director. Please see the list below.A full CV and personal statement highlighting what you consider to be your most significant experience and achievements in education, work and life, why you want to undertake the MFA-AFP and what you hope to achieve in your career in film (maximum two pages).Tangible evidence of your achievements: for writers, a completed short or feature film script - preferably of a film that has been produced (in which case, please include a copy of the film) - together with short extracts from other scripts (maximum additional 20 pages in total)for producers, a show reel of projects already produced plus a two-page summary of projects in production/developmentfor directors, one DVD (or VHS tape) of a completed (preferably short) film and showreel of other workA proposal outlining the type of projects that you envisage writing, producing or directing if your application is successful (maximum two pages).Please identify a writer / producer / director whose work you particularly admire and tell us why.List your strengths and weaknesses as writer/director/producer and identify which aspect of your discipline you want to develop and improve during the programme.Fees TableFees 2012/132013/14 Home/EU£15,000tba Overseas£15,000tba Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.