Film - MA - Full time

Screen Academy Scotland is an active film making hub in the culturally vibrant city of Edinburgh. It offers great scope for collaboration, with some 200 or so students, at under-and post-graduate level engaged in diverse film activities. Students at the Screen Academy have access to a complete range of professional production and post-production equipment, including Arri Alexa, HDCam, Super 16 mm, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Pro-Tools and a fully equipped dubbing facility. And they can draw on support from tutors who themselves have significant experience in the industry. This course will advance your knowledge of your chosen specialist area as well as giving you a rounded understanding of other film making disciplines. The Screen Academy is a professionally equipped facility, and we expect student work to aspire to a level that is as close to an industry standard as possible. On completion of this course, we would expect graduates to be ready to take up an entry level job in the industry, or, in the case of outstanding students, set themselves up as an independent practitioner as either a director, producer, cinematographer, editor or sound designer. High achieving students on the programme who would like to continue and deepen their studies will have the opportunity to apply for the MFA Advanced Film Practice. This provides a further year of intense, project-based film-making. 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. View Full Screen

What's involved This course is studied on a full-time basis and lasts 1 year. You’ll learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshop sessions and independent study. Trimester 1 Teaching and project work that is specific to your chosen discipline, collaborative film-making involving all students, and detailed study in one other specialism (eg screenwriting). Trimester 2 Teaching and project work that is specific to your chosen discipline, collaborative film-making involving all students, and critical film studies. Trimester 3 A major fiction film project.

Requirements at a glance Entry to the course BA (Hons), or equivalent, plus Portfolio. Please make it clear in your application which of the five specialisms you are applying for: directing, producing, cinematography, editing or sound. Note on Portfolio: On your application form please include links to your film portfolio. As well as applicants whose BA or BSc is in film, we are also interested in graduates from related disciplines. It may be in this case that you have other materials, such as art work, stills photography, scripts, or sound work, which you would like us to see. Please include links to such work on your application form. We may consider applications for producing without a portfolio provided you have an appropriate background in arts administration, business or finance. We will not consider any other applications without a portfolio. As we are recruiting in five different specialisms, the number of students we are able to take in each pathway will be limited due to the need to ensure a balance of expertise within the programme. We anticipate that interviews for this programme will take place in April therefore applications should be submitted by 15th March 2013 in order to be considered.Fees Table 2012/3 2013/4 Scotland £3,750 £3,750 European Union £3,750 £3,750 Rest of UK £3,750 £3,750 Overseas £10,350 £10,760 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.