BA (Hons) Filmmaking Bachelor's degree at Huddersfield

This module introduces you to a range of moving image specialisms and filmmaking/entertainment workflow across genres and sectors: how those departmental specialisms operate and integrate in the professional world of the moving image, and best practices for adapting those norms to student filmmaking. Discussion of above-the-line roles will anchor a wider exploration of departmental specialisms as students assemble into filmmaking project groups. This film project serves as a bridge to the more f

This module is the springboard for your longer-term exploration of postproduction skills and techniques including picture cutting, sound design, colour grading, and the application of artificial intelligence in the creation of film and video. The aim is to achieve foundational competence in postproduction practices as you discover your greatest strengths and passions therein.

This module introduces you to vital debates on the production and reception of contemporary visual culture. Interdisciplinary in nature and approach, you will explore the subject with reference to a wide variety of images and artefacts, applying your learning to your subject specialism. The module introduces you to the importance of independent research, critical thinking and informed opinion. You will learn to recognise and appraise key conventions and contexts and apply that knowledge to your

The module introduces you to foundational and experimental creative practices in image-making and filmmaking: mentored time and space in which to make multiple pieces of work that expand your frame of reference as a budding moving image professional. Evaluation of your work is a regular formative part of the module, and of your final summative submission. The individual and collective aims are to build upon your existing aptitudes, discover new strengths, challenge prior assumptions, and solidif

This module aims to broaden and strengthen your grasp of moving image specialisms and professional practices through the creation of a short fiction film. Working in a production group, you will conceive, propose, and refine a project for production. Intensive film genre and specialist role research will support the preproduction, production, and postproduction of the collaboratively completed short fiction film: a proving ground and catalyst for your creative, technical, and professional develo

This module introduces you to ways of developing ideas and formats across unscripted television genres. Learning focuses on both gaining knowledge and applying it through group projects using industry-style facilities and techniques. You will critically examine processes of creativity and development as you study television pre-production. You will take on different roles in non-scripted programme development as the module facilitates group project work. This will allow to move your format ideas

This module aims to expand and enrich your capacities across multiple departments in documentary and commercial short form as you progress through your moving image specialisation journey. Through the collaborative development and production of a short nonfiction film project – documentary or commercial short, the choice is yours – you will explore new contexts and skillsets, e.g. crafting documentary and commercial treatments and pitch decks, writing incisive and narratively cohesive interview

As you progress toward your final year, this module aims to help you refine your professional practice and evolving suite of individual moving image specialisms through the creation of your project intended for external (e.g. film festival) audiences. Following a pitching and greenlighting process, you will collaborate with a production group on said film across research and development, preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution strategy.

This module is your sandbox for creative exploration and constructive risk-taking. You will investigate current and historical experimental techniques, aiming to develop a well-informed lens through which to anticipate and apply emergent moving image practice. The goal is to consciously pursue challenges beyond your current comfort zone to serve your wider development as a moving image professional ahead of your final undergraduate year.

Building upon your first undergraduate year exploring the moving image, this module aims to help you chart your bespoke course for creative and professional development on and off campus. With support from staff and student colleagues, you will decide upon a set of potential long-term specialist career routes. Craft and industry research will complement active industry engagement and pursuit of entry-level work experience opportunities. You will complete the module with a flexible, industry-info

In this module you will examine contemporary cinema as a global media industry, with a particular emphasis on the processes of globalisation and circulation that allow film texts to become meaningful far outside the contexts in which they were made. While the global dominance of Hollywood is central to this, cultural influences, values and meanings flow in multiple directions. You will develop knowledge of key theories in film and global media studies, including theories of globalisation, cultur

The placement year is your chance to gain hands-on experience and build on the skills you've developed in your first two years of study. You'll spend up to 48 weeks (minimum 36 weeks) in a graduate-level role, sharpening your professional skills, exploring career options, and boosting your future job prospects. During your placement, you'll reflect on your performance, develop real-world skills, and learn to approach your role with a critical eye. Your placement will be monitored, and you'll be

This module aims to: provide the skills, facilities and support to enable students to set up and run their own business or freelance service during their sandwich year; enable students to apply and test their knowledge and skills (including both creative and personal skills) as developed through their studies to date; give students experience of working in a self-employed capacity in their chosen industry as appropriate to their pathway; provide opportunities for personal development in a self-e

This module is the culmination of your growing industry engagement and related moving image specialisation across your undergraduate years: a mentored environment in which to build a bridge your professional future. You will propose an individual programme of moving image work experience, placement(s), and/or external client projects to be executed across the academic year. Lectures, seminars, and specialist/sector working groups will help you navigate this external engagement with an eye on cur

This module is the creative engine room of your final undergraduate year. With your specialisms honed, and your collaborative relationships with your colleagues firmly in place, you will develop and deliver excellent short form cinema of any genre that can engage external audiences (e.g. film festivals) and serve as a calling card for all students involved. Following the selection of projects for production, you will negotiate your role(s) in discussion with academic staff and the rest of your n

This module will introduce advanced concepts, theory and practical skills in the use of a broad range of equipment used for recording and mixing sound for Film and Television. The focus will be on Sound Design, Foley, Sound Effects, Dialogues recording and editing, track lay, and mixing in stereo and surround. Practical experience of location sound recording will be gained and will form an integral part of the module and its assessment. You will develop your ability to track lay, synchronise and