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BA Film & Television

  • UCAS code
    W600
  • A level offer
    ABB
  • Year of entry
    2024/25 See 2023/24 entry
  • Course duration
    Full Time:  3 Years
  • Year of entry
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  • Course duration
    Full Time:  3 Years

Our BA Film & Television course brings together practical, hands-on film and TV projects with academic analysis, helping you to become a skilful, informed and thoughtful creator.

During the course, you'll look at films and TV programmes from a range of periods and cultural settings, and will have the opportunity to collaborate in the making of film and television projects.

Develop a wide range of professional and practical skills, including:

  • editing
  • sound and lighting design
  • screenwriting and directing
  • TV studio production.

You’ll also gain supporting academic knowledge, learning about the histories and meanings of films and TV programmes. The Department of Film, Theatre & Television’s expertise lies in bringing together practice and theory in a way that meets current industry demands. You’ll have the chance to undertake industry placements, professional collaborations and study abroad opportunities, to develop your practice in a range of contexts.

In the National Student Survey 2023, 90% of our students said that teaching staff were good or very good at explaining things (89.92% of respondents studying in the School of Arts and Communication Design).

This degree is based in the purpose-built, industry-standard Minghella Studios. Our studios are situated on the University of Reading’s green campus, a leader in sustainable practice across the higher education sector.

Albert Education Partnership logoArri Certified Film School logoFEST logoRabble Theatre logoReading Rep Theatre logoResource Productions logoSouth Street Theatre logo

Our department proudly subscribes to the industry-leading BAFTA Albert scheme, which supports film-and-television makers in their efforts to work sustainably and to limit their environmental impact.

The first year of the course will offer you an equal balance of foundational knowledge and supported practice, delivered by the lecturers, researchers and technicians who lead our core modules.

You will develop this understanding further in your second year of study, where you’ll delve into work within and beyond classical and conventional film and TV traditions and contexts.

Optional modules will allow you to expand your interests and investigate various areas in detail, such as:

  • authorship and genre
  • industry practices
  • key socio-political and cultural issues.

Throughout the year, you’ll engage in increased, group-based practical work in either film or television, enhancing key skills and developing more specialist technical and production proficiency. 

In your final year, you’ll enrich your expertise as a skilful and knowledgeable creator and critical thinker, culminating in a collaborative film or TV production, a written dissertation, or an individual creative research project. The course will give you the tools and independence to select your path with confidence by the third year of your degree.

Optional, research, and practical-based modules, built around our academics’ current world-leading research and practice, will deepen your knowledge of film and TV, and there will be opportunities to engage with communities and clients as part of your practice.

Overview

Our BA Film & Television course brings together practical, hands-on film and TV projects with academic analysis, helping you to become a skilful, informed and thoughtful creator.

During the course, you'll look at films and TV programmes from a range of periods and cultural settings, and will have the opportunity to collaborate in the making of film and television projects.

Develop a wide range of professional and practical skills, including:

  • editing
  • sound and lighting design
  • screenwriting and directing
  • TV studio production.

You’ll also gain supporting academic knowledge, learning about the histories and meanings of films and TV programmes. The Department of Film, Theatre & Television’s expertise lies in bringing together practice and theory in a way that meets current industry demands. You’ll have the chance to undertake industry placements, professional collaborations and study abroad opportunities, to develop your practice in a range of contexts.

In the National Student Survey 2023, 90% of our students said that teaching staff were good or very good at explaining things (89.92% of respondents studying in the School of Arts and Communication Design).

This degree is based in the purpose-built, industry-standard Minghella Studios. Our studios are situated on the University of Reading’s green campus, a leader in sustainable practice across the higher education sector.

Albert Education Partnership logoArri Certified Film School logoFEST logoRabble Theatre logoReading Rep Theatre logoResource Productions logoSouth Street Theatre logo

Our department proudly subscribes to the industry-leading BAFTA Albert scheme, which supports film-and-television makers in their efforts to work sustainably and to limit their environmental impact.

Learning

The first year of the course will offer you an equal balance of foundational knowledge and supported practice, delivered by the lecturers, researchers and technicians who lead our core modules.

You will develop this understanding further in your second year of study, where you’ll delve into work within and beyond classical and conventional film and TV traditions and contexts.

Optional modules will allow you to expand your interests and investigate various areas in detail, such as:

  • authorship and genre
  • industry practices
  • key socio-political and cultural issues.

Throughout the year, you’ll engage in increased, group-based practical work in either film or television, enhancing key skills and developing more specialist technical and production proficiency. 

In your final year, you’ll enrich your expertise as a skilful and knowledgeable creator and critical thinker, culminating in a collaborative film or TV production, a written dissertation, or an individual creative research project. The course will give you the tools and independence to select your path with confidence by the third year of your degree.

Optional, research, and practical-based modules, built around our academics’ current world-leading research and practice, will deepen your knowledge of film and TV, and there will be opportunities to engage with communities and clients as part of your practice.

Entry requirements A Level ABB

Select Reading as your firm choice on UCAS and we'll guarantee you a place even if you don't quite meet your offer. For details, see our firm choice scheme. 

Typical offer

ABB 

International Baccalaureate

32 points overall

Extended Project Qualification

In recognition of the excellent preparation that the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) provides to students for University study, we can now include achievement in the EPQ as part of a formal offer.

BTEC Extended Diploma

DDM

UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma

Merit

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5, with no component below 5.5

For information on other English language qualifications, please visit our international student pages.

Alternative entry requirements for International and EU students

For country specific entry requirements look at entry requirements by country.

Pre-sessional English language programme

If you need to improve your English language score you can take a pre-sessional English course prior to entry onto your degree.

  • Find out the English language requirements for our courses and our pre-sessional English programme

Structure

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Compulsory modules

Approaches to Film

Critically interpret film texts and discover the conventions of fiction and non-fiction cinema. Explore cinema as a diverse, global and transcultural medium, focusing on historical and cultural contexts.

Introduction to Filmmaking 

Explore the methodologies and working practices related to the creative production of film and television texts, learning about the relationship between development of meaning and creative decision-making in these forms. Gain hands-on experience of the practices and processes involved in planning, documentation and analysis of critically engaged moving image production, and use specialist equipment necessary for production work.

Introduction to Scriptwriting 

Develop in-depth knowledge of scriptwriting and analysis of creative works and enhance your own scriptwriting skills with creative and intellectual tools. You’ll explore personal storytelling in cultural and intellectual contexts, as well as following script development – from the final draft through to creative production. 

Approaches to Television

Gain a critical understanding of central issues in television texts and fiction and non-fiction programming. You’ll examine television forms and narratives, industrial contexts, digital platforms and new delivery technologies, as well as the role of the audience and public service broadcasting.

TV Studio Production 

Develop critically engaged film/television production, cultivating an understanding of the practices and processes of devising, planning, realisation and documentation. You’ll learn to apply systematic approaches to film/television practice, individual research and collaborative decision-making.

Optional modules

Radical Forms in Theatre and Performance

Discover the history, traditions, practices, and theoretical and analytical perspectives of radical theatre-making and experimental performance practice. You’ll learn to appreciate the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of radical experimentation in theatre and performances, and express critical understanding of creative practice and risk-taking.

Comedy on Stage and Screen

Gain insights into how comedy intersects with film, theatre and television through a series of case studies. You’ll learn how humour highlights critical issues such as identity politics (gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability), taboo, embarrassment, cult, cancel or outrage culture, and explore relevant production, industrial and socio-cultural contexts.

These are the modules we currently offer for 2024/25 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they're informed by the latest teaching and research methods.

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them.

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the University of Reading.

Compulsory modules

Professional Roles and Screen Industry Pathways

Gain lived experience of professional roles and industry pathways in film and television production. You’ll develop knowledge and skills in a specific department of production and have the chance to experiment and reflect on future career directions.

Film Forms and Cultures

Discover the rich variety of film forms and explore critical and conceptual issues of form, including theoretical perspectives, questions of form, and form’s meaning and politics. 

Optional modules

Placement and Employment Skills

This module provides you with an opportunity for reflective learning and intensive research through an industry role of your choice. You’ll reflect critically on your career development and acquire transferable skills for future employment.

Documentary

Develop skills to critically analyse and produce non-fiction films and television through close analysis of texts and engagement with various industrial and technological contexts. You’ll engage with critical debates and conceptual issues and put ideas into practice. You’ll understand documentary-makers' creative decision-making and their connection to ideological concerns.

Television and Contemporary Culture

Engage with issues of genre, globalisation, industry, and representation. You’ll examine the construction of critical and contextual frameworks that underpin television studies. Explore television’s international flows, build a picture of national industrial practices, and analyse digital media practices and platforms. You’ll develop a critical understanding of conventions and histories of selected genres and explore the implied impact of ideologies of representation.

Identity, Performance and Culture

Understand the construction, representation and performance of diverse modes of identity in theatre and in culture. You’ll develop skills of close textual and performance analysis, and learn how local, national and global contexts have influenced playwrights, theatre makers and theatre cultures. 

Reworking Shakespeare in Performance 

Understand Shakespeare as a powerful signifier of culture, explore adaptations of Shakespeare and learn how these relate to broader cultural and political contexts. You’ll learn about the practices and preoccupations that currently affect the interpretation of Shakespeare and gain the ability to make connections between social and cultural concerns and their presentation on stage.

Independent Critical Project

Apply your knowledge and research skills to an area of interest with an extended research project that includes a creative component. You’ll develop your research project independently under the guidance of your supervisor.

Creative Screen Practice

Understand how creative processes relate to research, critical analysis and industry practices. You’ll develop your skills in collaborative production by working on a short practical project. You will also critically analyse and evaluate theoretical issues that are crucial to filmic or television decision-making, and enhance your professional skills in the fields of film and television.

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2024/25 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them.

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the University of Reading.

 

 

Optional modules

Creative Research Project

Apply your previously gained knowledge and skills to a significant research-based project that includes a creative element and critical research and reflection. You’ll developed the project independently under supervision.

Dissertation: Film and Theatre

Apply the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired in the previous modules to a major piece of independent work around an area you are interested in. Independently initiate and develop the project under the guidance of a supervisor.

Performance and Design: Site, Scenography and Installation

Critically explore theatre and performance design by engaging with historical and contemporary scenographic practices. You’ll learn about the role of designers in shaping and reimagining theatre and performance. You’ll advance the ways you read, see and encounter the visual, aural, spatial, material and technological elements of design. Get involved in critical reading and discussions on a diverse range of international designers, methods and performance environments. You’ll gain exposure to professional contexts through visits to archives, talks or masterclasses from visiting designers and/or scholars.

Advanced Film/TV Project

Apply the knowledge and skills you’ve gained to a practical, research-based project, independently developed by you and your group under the guidance of a supervisor.

Development and Pre-production

Strengthen your understanding of film and/or TV idea development and pre-production processes. You’ll reinforce your knowledge of industry practices attained in prior practical modules while working towards the production of a substantial practical project. You'll reinforce the mutually beneficial relationship between critical thinking and creative practice.

Commercial and Community Filmmaking

Develop your filmmaking competencies and professionalism through a short film-based project. You’ll develop specialisms in film as well as a critical understanding of film, industry practices and community contexts. You’ll apply relevant knowledge to the practical project, creating a project that responds clearly to the needs of community partners or commercial clients. You’ll also engage with perspectives and practices in film accessibility, sustainability and social engagement as part of the project.

Other optional modules 

Adaptions across Stage and Screen

Advanced Scriptwriting

Screen Bodies

Musical Theatre

Film Festivals and Programming

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2024/25 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them.

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the University of Reading.

Fees

New UK/Republic of Ireland students: £9,250

New international students: £22,350

* UK/Republic of Ireland fee changes

UK/Republic of Ireland undergraduate tuition fees are regulated by the UK government. These fees are subject to parliamentary approval and any decision on raising the tuition fees cap for new UK students would require the formal approval of both Houses of Parliament before it becomes law.

EU student fees

With effect from 1 August 2021, new EU students will pay international tuition fees. For exceptions, please read the UK government’s guidance for EU students.

Additional costs

Some courses will require additional payments for field trips and extra resources. You will also need to budget for your accommodation and living costs. See our information on living costs for more details.

Financial support for your studies

You may be eligible for a scholarship or bursary to help pay for your study. Students from the UK may also be eligible for a student loan to help cover these costs. See our fees and funding information for more information on what's available.

Careers

Film and television play a vital role in how people understand and shape the world, and so sustainability, accessibility and social engagement are thoroughly embedded in our degree. As a critically informed film/TV practitioner, you’ll gain the employability and entrepreneurial skills needed to start your career in the creative industries.

Alternatively, you will be well equipped to undertake further critical study if you choose to move on to a postgraduate degree.

Graduates of this degree have gone on to work in:

  • film-making
  • production
  • performance
  • cinematography
  • teaching and education
  • fundraising and development
  • publishing and media
  • arts management and administration
  • advertising and marketing
  • film criticism.

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