Film and Screen Studies (Hons) University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

Within this Film and Screen Studies (Hons) BA programme from the University of the Arts London (UAL) you'll explore the rich global history of the moving image from the 20th Century, alongside contemporary immersive and interactive platforms.

Develop your critical thinking through an extensive programme of film screenings, delivered alongside contextual analysis. You'll explore film and screen narrative from the cinematic, historic, national, geographic, genre, ethnic and diversity perspective.

For your final graduation project, you will collaborate and curate a film or screen festival.

BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies aims to generate graduates who are insightful, analytical, commercially minded and ethically aware.

Why choose this course at London College of Communication

• You'll be taught the knowledge and skills for the current, emerging and evolving screen industries.

• The skills and practices taught include critical review, video essays, podcasting, distribution, curation and exhibition of film and screen. Please note: this course does not teach film-production nor the filmmaking roles through practical filmmaking exercises.

• You will explore an extensive programme of films and a broad investigative analysis, underpinning the intellectual core of your studies.

• The graduation project is a student-led film/screen festival. This offers you the opportunity to curate an outward, public-facing event.

• The course promotes an inclusive approach to the distinct diverse voices from the UK and the international filmmaking community.

• The course is modelled to generate graduates who are ethically aware, creative risk-takers, for film/screen distribution.

• Investigation and critical analysis is informed by contextual studies, practice and the technologies of a breadth of screen disciplines.

• Opportunities for furthering archival research around the Stanley Kubrick Archive and other film-based archives onsite at London College of Communication.

• You'll develop a critical and analytical approach to the moving image and problem solving and will learn the transferable skills of project management, marketing and public relations.

• The course is based in the heart of London – the centre of the UK’s film and TV industries. London College of Communication is located within easy reach of the IMAX, the BFI Southbank and the British Film Institute Library, as well as a large concentration of cinemas and venues in central London.

Career opportunities:

• Curating for film festivals, screen events or gallery installations.

• A range of employability skills either side of the traditional craft or production roles, with specific strengths in written or presentational work for commissioning editors, journalistic critical review, and marketing.

• Film, screen and moving image production.

• Working on archival or restoration projects.

• Postgraduate study.