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MA Filmmaking (Editing)

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    MA 1 year full-time

Course Description

This MA will enhance your narrative skills as an editor of fiction for film and television. This Masters is a pathway of MA Filmmaking, so that in addition to your specialised training you will collaborate with students across all specialisms on a variety of film projects. Experienced tutors and guests provide expert guidance designed to enhance the flow of your individual research, experimentation and artistic achievement. You will complete your degree by working in your specialist role on a major production in the final term.

The programme is housed in a new purpose-built media facility equipped with state-of-the art teaching spaces including a film studio equipped with Arri lighting and Green Screen facilities. Edit suites are equipped with Avid Media Composer and tuition is offered, giving the opportunity to gain Avid Certified User accreditation (Media Composer 101 and 110). Edit suites, screening rooms and sound studios are linked via Avid’s industry standard ISIS storage area network.

You will work to professional standards using high-end digital formats. You will also learn sophisticated postproduction workflow techniques, gaining a wealth of experience in off-line editing and an understanding of how this fits in with on-line editing, visual effects and picture grading.

Entry Requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a relevant/related subject as well as a level of practical experience from work in the arts or the media.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Our alumni are active in the film, media and cultural industries around the world as fiction and documentary editors.

Module Details

In your first two terms, you will spend a full day a week in specialised contact with your specific programme convenor. These sessions include: 

  • practical demonstrations and exercises 
  • lectures 
  • screenings 
  • small group seminars 
  • workshops 

You will also take three option modules, taught through practical workshops and hands-on experiences, as well as critical discussion and essay writing. 

The third term will be taken up with your final substantive project and you will take part in a series of progress and feedback meetings. 

Screen Lab 

You will advance your collaborative skills by working in teams with fiction and documentary producers and directors, cinematography and sound students, on a variety of projects and at least three scheduled films across the year. 

Compulsory modules 

  • Editing: Specialist Skills 30 credits 
  • Contemporary Screen Narratives in Practice and Theory 15 credits 
  • Final Project 90 credits 

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