Film and Television Production (Hons)

Overview

Film and television are exciting, creative and rapidly evolving industries. 

They are consistently on the look-out for new ideas, new stories and new talent. Choose this highly creative and highly practical course to learn the latest techniques for producing exciting film and television content. You'll also gain analytical skills that will allow your imagination to flourish in a professional industrial environment.

You will have access to professional-standard single and multi-camera facilities from the outset. With the guidance of expert staff, many of them film and television professionals, you will develop the directing, editing, camera-operating, writing and recording skills you will need to tackle a range of genres and a range of professional disciplines. Over the three years, you will have the chance to imagine and make your own dramas or documentaries and your own studio programmes and to hone your specialist skills in large-scale group productions.

This ScreenSkills accredited Film and Television Production (Hons) programme at University of York was developed with input from practising industry specialists. The teaching staff come from a range of media and academic backgrounds and include documentary and feature film-makers, broadcasting executives, scriptwriters and technical practitioners alongside media historians and theorists with national and international reputations.

Careers and skills

You will graduate with the practical, technical and creative skills and the experience needed to enter a variety of media industries or to begin a career in independent film and TV production.

While many of our students choose a career in film or television, our course is also designed to offer you a range of transferable skills that are relevant to the media, the wider world of work or to further academic study. For more information on our graduates take a look at our graduate achievement page.

Career opportunities

The majority of our graduates move into staff or freelance roles in the film, television and video industries. Recent roles include:

• Directors and producers
• Writers and researchers
• Cinematographers and camera operators
• Visual effects artists
• Sound designers and picture editors
• Production designers and production managers
• Vision mixers.