BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies with Placement Year Bachelor's degree at Brunel University of London

With the central aim of developing your creative and technical skills, this module will introduce you to the vocabulary, concepts and equipment needed in film production. You will work collaboratively with your peers to train with our technical and academic staff. From directing to producing, cinematography to editing and sound recording and sound designing, you'll be introduced to professional practices and industry workflows as you develop your own craft.

This module aims to engage you in your own professional development with workshop sessions on activities like CV workshops and networking simulations. Throughout the module there will be an emphasis on developing professional behaviours such as timekeeping, attendance, participation, organisation and communication.

This module examines how film developed in terms of sound, colour, the development of the classical Hollywood system, and where we are today in terms of industry models. We will also look at television from the broadcast era through to contemporary streaming services today.

Studying culture demands that we think about identity and, of course, representation. It's important in the film and television industry to consider whose stories are being told, who is in creative roles behind the camera and how people are being represented. This module will explore identity politics and consider theory such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism and disability studies, among others.

This module – spread across two terms – focusses on what is needed to prepare a creative project before you begin filming it. You will study how projects are developed in the industry and will develop your own original short film idea.

Uncover some of the core skills in analysing and reading film and television texts. This module focuses particularly on how we might understand film and television in terms of the context of its production and reception. We will carefully consider the importance of social, cultural and political contextual relationships with film and television products.

This module uses classic and more recent critical frameworks in film studies to provide readings and interpretations of film and television. Influential theories – such as the 'gaze', ideology and affect – will be explored in relation to particular film and television examples. Students will learn to debate the rival claims of different perspectives.

This module is a key element in the employability strand that runs through every level of our programme. It focuses primarily upon the British context but it also pays careful attention to where the film and television industries in the UK are located in relation to the wider global nexus of production, distribution and exhibition. Designed to prepare students for careers in the creative sector, it explores the challenges of negotiating a job market in which freelancing is the dominant mode of e

Exploring a range of examples from distinct periods of filmmaking history, this module will also allow you to create your own experimental film. You will also examine connections between the economic, formal-aesthetic and social-political aspects of these alternative practices.

Genre as a cultural category is central to the production, consumption and analysis of films and television shows. This module explores a range of genres in film and television, some of them specific to one medium and others found across both. It examines how genre has been variously theorised and considers how we might approach genre from a range of different perspectives, including the industrial, the formal/stylistic, and the socio-cultural. Case studies include the Western, science fiction,

Interested in exploring the dynamic relationships that exist between different cinemas from different places? We will consider a range of world cinemas from the Global South, Asia and beyond. We will consider global art and alternative cinemas as well as more mainstream practices, considering films in terms of globalisation and the transnational, as well as the regional and the national.

Firstly, this module will allow you to explore the medium specificity of animation, the range of techniques available, as well as different industries and their development. We will then go on to teach you a range of animation production skills which will allow you to create your own short form animation in a style and medium of your choosing.

Postcolonial writing often comes out of difficult circumstances. Its writers sometimes risked everything to publish what they needed to say. These are the new pioneers of Literature in English, whose works would inspire and define the writings of the future. In this module, we get to grips with key concepts encountered in postcolonial studies, which have been developed to investigate phenomena including colonialism and resistance, multiculturalism and globalization, racism, and Islamophobia.

This is a single term version of the two-term Advanced Filmmaking module to be taken by students studying abroad in the second term, or for students who are on the Film & Television studies degree pathway.

The module introduces students to the professional practice and theory of screenwriting for film and television. Although the short film is the main focus of study, the classic, feature length narrative fiction film, television drama, and films from alternative and non- narrative traditions will also be considered. The module is substantially practice-based. All students will write an original screenplay to a maximum length of 10 pages. Students will also produce supporting documents, such as a

This module is unique in our portfolio in that it requires students to complete a 70-hour placement with a company/organisation in which they can apply the skills they have acquired over the course of the programme and to reflect critically on their experience. With a taught component that is structured around the contributions of a range of industry speakers, it also gives students the opportunity to begin building professional networks and to hone their understanding of employment practices in

The final-year written dissertation allows you to research a topic you are passionate about in order to produce an independent study project.