BA (Hons) Film Bachelor's degree at Westminster

This module provides induction and understanding of creative research practice, assessment processes and group working required for creative practice subjects. You'll be challenged to experiment individually, undertaking contextual and practical research, which will contribute to a significant group project where you'll be allocated creative roles in groups working collaboratively. This will introduce you to the peer assessment framework required for future collaborative projects.

This module provides an introduction to documentary in which you will develop a range of skills required to make, contextualise and evaluate documentary films. Key movements, theories, styles and approaches to storytelling in documentary filmmaking are introduced along with the ethical implications of the form. Throughout the module, your creative, practical and technical work is in dialogue with your developing knowledge of documentary filmmaking more broadly. This culminates in the collaborati

This module offers an introduction to film and television practices and theoretical study in which you undertake a range of practical projects, supported by lectures and seminars, encouraging you to consider how ideas can be communicated through these media. Focus will be placed on collaborative group work and developing a critically reflective approach to practical filmmaking.

This module introduces students to screen criticism across film, television, and digital media. It explores how screen content is analysed, evaluated, and discussed in different contexts and for different audiences – from written reviews, critiques and recaps to podcasts, YouTube video essays, and TikTok takes. It considers the centrality of screen criticism to screen industries and cultures, from journalistic reviews to fan critiques to affiliated media (such as official TV series podcasts). Th

This is a practical module that develops knowledge of production design techniques in terms of practice and concept. The completion of a design handbook will enable a variety of skills from script breakdown to pre-visualisation. There is an emphasis on critical analysis of both your own work and that of professional designers.

This module is designed to meet the growing demand for producing content for moving image in related creative industries. The module focuses on practices, techniques and technologies relating to the areas of moving image, animation and compositing. At the same time, this module looks at the role of visual artists, focusing on developing their understanding and knowledge of the key concepts, principles and tools that promote clear communication of ideas for producing moving image content for digi

This module recognises that, from the very opening frames of any screen drama, audience engagement depends on believable performances from actors. Because simply knowing what is wanted from actors on screen does not equip directors to achieve the desired results, students are introduced to the craft of acting along with a range of techniques for effectively working with actors and non-actors in developing characters and scenarios, casting, rehearsals, and directing actors on set.

This module develops skills specific to drama production in a single-camera, studio-based environment. While the module works towards a collaborative, studio-based short film, it also examines the structure of story through a critical and theoretical context. This theoretical component requires you to focus on formalist film elements (eg camera, lighting, sound, set design, edit) which contribute to genre conventions and styles.

This module develops skills in film production specific to two parameters: drama (fictional) and location shoot (not in studio). The skills required for this module are practical and creative, with the semester culminating in a collaborative short-film production shot on location.

This module is designed to prepare you for life after graduation and for working and building sustainable careers in the television industry. It helps you develop career skills such as effective self-presentation, and interview techniques, with a view to helping you apply for a work placement. As part of the module you'll source, secure and complete one (or more, depending on the length) work placements in a media production environment and compile a report to reflect on your experience. A suppo

This is a practical module in which you'll immerse yourself in the art and craft of Cinematography. Week by week you'll look at camera and lighting skills, combining creative expression with technical expertise. You'll work collaboratively to shoot exercises and investigate a range of industry-standard equipment and techniques. The completion of a 'camera and lighting scrapbook' will enable a variety of skills and will allow you to research specific areas of interest within lighting and camera d

This module will focus on specific traditions, geographies and filmmakers and will investigate the shifting theoretical and pragmatic notions that lie behind the concepts of transnational, world, global, art and independent cinema. The module will explore traditions and aesthetic innovations that situate contemporary world cinemas. It seeks to move away from a national cinema framework as well as limited notions of world cinema that take the West as the centre. Adopting a transnational framework

This module takes an intersectional approach to race, ethnicity, gender and class in film and TV. The module will pay attention to the interconnected nature of these identities. You'll look at how you shape lived experiences of people and how moving images participate in this process. You'll explore how film reproduces or subverts existing norms and privileges, and discuss topics such as gender, sexuality, diversity, agency, tokenism, LGBTQI representation, critical race theory and whiteness. Th

This module offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection between psychology and the moving image. Tracing key ideas from Freud and Lacan, to contemporary thinkers Metz, Mulvey, Kristeva and Caruth, this module investigates how psychoanalytic concepts such as the unconscious, human developmental phases, language, trauma, affect and memory inform our understanding of screen-based narratives. Students will critically examine the ways psychoanalysis can inform the interpretation of film and te

Short Form Film and Video is designed to meet the substantial demand for short form media content which is consumed across multiple personal devices (including desk-top computers, laptops, tablets and smart phones) and distributed across multiple platforms (including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok). The module seeks to arm you with the skillset and confidence to work as an 'all-rounder creative' - an individual who generates shortform content without the multi-person crew and high-end e