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MA Filmmaking (Producing)

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    1 year full-time

Course Description

The MA Filmmaking (Producing) will provide you with a thorough training in all aspects of producing – from the conception of an initial idea through to development, financing, production and release.

This Masters, a pathway of the MA Filmmaking, provides excellent training for a successful career as a producer. As part of the programme you’ll have the opportunity to specialise in either development, where you will work with writers and directors to develop new ideas, or line producing, where you will focus more on how to run a production and a crew, and how to also take a production manager or assistant director role.

The programme is housed in a new purpose-built media facility equipped with state-of-the art teaching spaces including film and photography studios equipped with Arri lighting and Greenscreen, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Film Editing, Animation, Digital Special Effects, Pro Tools Audio Postproduction and Foley suites. Our studio spaces, and extensive production facilities and informal rehearsal and meeting spaces create an environment where you can discuss and collaborate with scriptwriters, actors, directors, other producers and your shoot team. We also have established relations with casting directors, agents, production designers and other professionals who will both advise you and provide their skills to enhance your productions.

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 producing alumni have gone on to win awards at major international film festivals (including a nomination for Best Short Film Oscar) and are active in the film, media and cultural industries around the world as fiction and documentary producers and production managers.

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 

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

Screen School options 

As well as your Editing specialism, you will choose three 15-credit option modules to enhance your other skills and critical approaches.

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