Photography and Film (Hons)

Overview

At Wrexham Glyndwr University, students will:

• discover a range of skills including how the lens can be used creatively as a tool for storytelling, specialist and experimental camera techniques, lighting for studio and location work, editing and post-production
• be encouraged to acquire unique approaches to the photography and film disciplines
• develop and research their own ideas in relation to project briefs, learning transferable skills needed to work as an imaginative professional
• generate and produce ideas through location and studio work
• be guided in making submissions for international galleries, expositions, festivals, drama, documentary, advertising, music media and other forms of digital imagery and visual effects
• have the opportunity to study abroad through the Erasmus Scheme 

Career opportunities

The Photography and Film (Hons) BA programme offered by Wrexham Glyndwr University has a strong vocational and academic ethos that aim to ensure graduates acquire a range of vocationally relevant skills. Integral to this ethos is the responsibility to ensure that our graduates have a portfolio of abilities and attributes which will allow them to thrive in the 21st Century workplace. It takes into account the fact that the future needs of the creative industries are likely to be very different. It therefore aims to prepare ‘independent learners’ who on completion of their studies are able to flourish within increasingly diverse professional contexts.

At this Photography and Film program, you will gain a high level of realistic and practical experience of working in the professional creative environment whilst you are on the programme. Students are encouraged to initiate, organise and participate in off-site projects and engage in professional opportunities including commercial activities that have the potential to launch their career in Photography or Film and the boundaries that straddles these two disciplines.

Many Photography and Film graduates go on pursue careers as:

• Independent film-makers, directors, photographers in large or small companies,
• Freelancing or setting up in business.
• Independent art practice
• Teaching in further or higher education or in primary and secondary schools
• Gallery or other forms of exhibition work, or as education officers.
• Researchers