Film Production and Theatre Brunel University of London

Overview

Your Film Production and Theatre degree course delivered by Brunel University of London , is a part of the BAFTA albert education partnership. This accreditation provides students with exclusive access to the industry’s BAFTA albert carbon calculator, a tool used by Netflix, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, UKTV and Sky when producing their content. Participating students will work towards creating environmentally-friendly, sustainable content.

In addition to your theatre coursework, you will have the opportunity to make short films whilst studying on a range of modules that focus on how screen media have been variously theorised. You will have the flexibility to map your own route through the programme by combining theory and practice modules in a way that work best for you, and this joint degree can be as hands-on as you make it! On the theatre side of the programme, you will explore a wide variety of specialisms ranging from acting, applied drama, theatre making, musical theatre, physical theatre and playwriting.

As a joint Theatre and Film Production student, you will have access to camera, sound, lighting and editing equipment through Brunel’s Media Teaching Centre. Training on the technology is embedded into this degree programme and as a student you have access to this equipment both in and out of term time. Finally, as a joint student, you can take advantage of the Film and Television’s partnerships with ScreenCraft Works and the BAFTA albert programme, among others.

Our editing suites have up-to-date production software such as Adobe Creative Cloud; Avid Media Composer; Avid ProTools, and others. We also have a range of high quality camera (including a Netflix approved 12K camera), sound, lighting, and grip equipment for you to use throughout your degree – whether that is for course work or for your personal projects outside of the classroom. For more information, visit our Film Studies and Film Production Facilities page.

Put your learning into practice with the option of doing a placement year between your second and third year of study. With the support of our award-winning Student Development team, you can secure work experience that is a good fit in terms of your professional aspirations. If that’s not for you, though, you’ll still have plenty of opportunities over the course of your studies to hone your career.

Careers and your future

With one of Brunel’s film degrees, you can head out into the world of work secure in the knowledge that you have access to multiple avenues of opportunity – and that there is no single route you must follow.

Many of our students go on to take up production and post-production roles in the film and television industries in the UK and beyond: amongst our alumni there are TV presenters, newsreaders, screen actors, production managers, editors, camera operators, and award-winning independent filmmakers.

As well as gaining a firm grounding in the theoretical and practical aspects of film and television while you are a student with us, you will enhance your transferable employment skills. You will develop your written and spoken communication, presentation skills and your ability to work productively and efficiently in a team.

We encourage students to think expansively in terms of how they might apply their skill set and we have developed close links not only with film and television production companies but also with post-production houses, charities, marketing companies, corporate video producers, and podcasting studios. In recent years our students have completed short placements with Scott Free Productions (Napoleon), Shondaland (Bridgerton), IMG Sports, the British Red Cross, Rex Brown Studios, NextShoot, Antonia Claudie, CaviarTV, and the National Theatre.