BA (Hons) Filmmaking Bachelor's degree at East London

Develop the skills you need to confidently navigate your future career. You'll engage in real-world professional activities like networking simulations, mock interviews, and digital branding exercises, supported by industry guest speakers and career coaches.

Build the academic and professional skills you need for success in the creative and technology industries. You'll develop key study techniques, including effective note-taking, research, academic writing, and digital communication.

Strong numeracy and data-handling skills are vital in creative industries. In this module, you'll learn how to interpret graphs, solve problems using digital tools like spreadsheets, and present numerical information clearly.

Understanding how media messages are created and interpreted is essential in today's digital world. This module introduces you to key frameworks for analysing visual media, while also building your ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively.

You'll harness new technologies and creative approaches to complete a practical project that mirrors real-world challenges in the creative industries. Through group work, independent development, and targeted workshops, you'll sharpen leadership, collaboration, and technical skills.

This is an introductory module, inducting students into the technical aspects of film and sound recording, lighting for film, along with editing techniques. The class will also go over planning and writing for documentary film.

This module introduces and develops key skills for screenwriting to professional industry standards. Students will be presented with a guided learning programme of increasingly challenging screenwriting exercises designed to progress their learning and storytelling voice.

This module provides essential knowledge and understanding of the language of cinema and the elements of film style (cinematography, mise-en-scene, sound, and editing).

In this module students will examine forms of narrative and storytelling in the context of film. They will watch and analyse case studies of short films and learn about narrative theory, such as the conventions of plot and character development.

This module will introduce students to the history of film, from its very beginnings to the present day. The module will chart the rise of Hollywood, as well as explore significant film movements from around the world.

This module is designed to help you develop the essential skills needed for both university success and your future career. Think of it as your toolkit for personal growth – helping you understand yourself better and build the key skills that employers value beyond technical knowledge.

This module aims to encourage students to develop their practical filmmaking skills and coherency of the equipment through varying outputs, experimenting and developing a creative and critical approach to a range of filmmaking technologies.

This module explores innovative techniques and experimental approaches creating unconventional narrative form through film. From experimental cinematography to atypical editing styles, students will analyse and experiment with various forms of visual expression.

The module is designed to involve students with the history and theory relevant to the development of 1 to 2 cinematic genres, building on knowledge gained in Language of Cinema and Film History.

This module provides the opportunity to develop film narrative skills in a more advanced and professional context. Students will develop more complex projects that enable more intensive collaborative practice.