BA (Hons) Film Bachelor's degree at Leeds Trinity University

You'll develop teamworking skills through creative challenges, taught sessions, profiling and self-understanding. You'll work on team presentation and develop a professional persona through attitude, commitment and effective communication. In the second semester, you'll look at enterprise and sector analysis. You'll develop your solo presentation and pitching skills. We'll cover the creativity and skills needed to start, maintain and grow your production streams as independent creators. We'll he

You'll be introduced to the process of professional film and audio production. Get a practical understanding of basic videography, lighting, audio production and post-production. You'll use film production equipment appropriate for relevant distribution platforms. Develop your production and creative skills while getting to know specialist equipment, techniques and practices.

You'll get an introduction to scriptwriting through theoretical and practical work. You'll explore ideas generation and development, narrative structure, character development, synopses, treatments and One-Page pitches. You'll also learn the appropriate professional layout and format.

Analyse the form and style of motion pictures and how they can be seen as culturally and industrially significant products. You'll develop core vocabulary and skills for analysing film form and style, focussing on mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound and narrative. You'll consider conventions and norms within films and filmmaking practices, from mainstream productions to art cinema and independent film. You'll also explore core concepts and approaches to studying film. You'll apply thes

Develop your professional skills to help with your CV, interviews, networking, self-marketing, and industry-specific employability skills. You'll have talks from external speakers and industry contacts as well as internal expertise, preparing you for your first external placement. Develop your skills in creative problem-solving, idea generation, project management and enterprise through creative productions. This will also develop freelancing skills and equip you to be flexible and professional

You'll get an introduction to the contemporary film industry and how movies are produced and consumed. We'll look at the production, distribution, exhibition, marketing, promotion, advertising and diversity and representation of contemporary films. Looking at institutions such as the BFI, BBFC and Screen Yorkshire, you'll study funding, public policy, markets, audiences, festivals, regulation and censorship. We'll focus on the impact of the internationalisation and globalisation of the film indu

You'll study ways to theorise and research film. You'll learn how to critically discuss documentary and fiction films, focusing on a range of examples, historically and within various movements and sub-genres. You'll apply this learning to the processes of production in other modules. You'll learn how to identify research topics and think about ethics. We'll also explore relationships between theory and practice.

You'll get an introduction to professional film and audio production. You'll get a practical understanding of basic videography, lighting, audio production, post-production and using film production equipment. You'll find out how to light a set, shoot on location and work with scripted materials.

Develop your production and story-telling skills, working as a team to produce a seven-minute short film. You'll learn the process of development, research, production, post-production, and the crucial role of narrative structure. We'll explore the ethics behind the creative treatment of actuality, and provide a theoretical understanding of the role of non-fiction media products and their historical development.

Get a history of special visual effects production for film and television. Examine the visual use of practical and physical effects, motion graphics, visualisation and computer-generated digital effects. You'll explore technical production using visual, digital or studio activities. We'll discuss creative possibilities within film, TV and associated media, along with the constraints of budget, skills, production time, facilities and location. You'll apply theory to practical production and use

You'll produce a piece of critical writing or media artefact, taking the form of a dissertation, research by practice or creative project. You'll conduct detailed research with appropriate levels of supervision. The topic will reflect your interests, enabling you to explore an aspect of study in more depth and build on your studies across the levels.

You'll take on a work-based project or intervention, or an alternative professional development project. You'll negotiate a project with your employer or placement provider that meets their needs as well as the university. You'll have a series of seminars to outline the challenge, followed by tutorial support to chart progress and help you towards your assessment. As a negotiated, self-managed module, you'll receive initial support to establish the learning outcomes and appropriate assessment me

You'll put your knowledge and technical skills into practice to produce work for your portfolio. Thinking about briefs, treatments, scripts, storyboards, logistics of location recording, camera crew roles, single camera techniques and editing, you'll produce work in small groups. This'll culminate in a presentation of completed films, followed by critical peer appraisal in preparation for your final submission.

You'll devise, research and produce a ten-minute documentary film. In sessions, you'll get a theoretical understanding of the nature, impact and role of contemporary documentaries as well as practical aspects of production. This includes devising and researching programme ideas, finding key contributors, preparing and executing single-camera location filming and story-telling in the editing process. In an intensive period of self-directed team-based production, you'll create a professional-quali

Get a collaborative digital studio experience of the creative production workflow for film, TV and creative visual effects production. In a studio environment, you'll produce a digital visual effects sequence using practical effects, motion graphics, visualisation and computer-generated digital effects. You'll have weekly technical production meetings to direct and delegate the development and progress of the digital studio activities. You'll produce media artefacts within the available workflow

Pursue your own area of interest to produce work in an appropriate format to reflect broad engagement and understanding of your chosen field of study. For example, if you are producing a film in another module, you could use this module to research, outline and produce a PR campaign for it. You'll work with a tutor to come up with a project agreement.

Explore science fiction across literature, film, TV, graphic novels and interactive narratives, from different historical and contemporary cultural contexts. By exploring how the genre developed through science, technology, progress, future and past, you'll study how sci-fi has survived many mutations, from the radiated adventurers of superhero fiction to the clockwork mechanisms of steampunk. We'll consider how some of the movement's most significant works include science fiction as allegory an

Explore contemporary cult film and television drama productions made in the UK, USA, and Europe, but marketed, distributed, and screened globally. We'll discuss issues related to production, such as industrial, technical, and aesthetics. You'll look at cultural, political, and societal themes related to the contemporary nature of textual content. You'll also explore critical and theoretical concepts related to scholarly definitions of cult film, television drama, narrative, storytelling, and cul

Explore and interrogate contemporary forms of intertextuality - the relationship between texts. Drawing upon theories of adaptation, transmedia, remakes, series, franchises, intertextuality and paratextuality, you'll analyse ways intertextuality functions in relation to presold media products. You'll consider intertextuality in production, including adaptation, updating, recontextualisation, rebooting, extension and expansion through spin-off content and transmedia storytelling. You'll contextua