Producing

Overview

The producing course is designed to be skill specific (budgeting, production management, raising finance, idea development, pitching) and interdisciplinary (group productions, brainstorming, team building). Threaded through the programme are opportunities for you to meet and collaborate with students on complementary pathways and to build your own professional profile. We want you not only to understand your own role, but to get the bigger picture – how do others think, how does industry work? 

Why take the course?

• Practical: Producers lead teams of directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, and editors on a variety of projects. Networking and pitching skills are also developed throughout the course, with students pitching to high-level film industry professionals, TV commissioning executives, and business investors. 
• Comprehensive: During their time on the course, students are given opportunities to visit major film festivals and companies. Past examples include festivals like the Berlinale, Cannes, or London, and companies such as Disney, World Productions, Sky Television, Channel 5, and The Imaginarium. 
• Industry-facing: Some of our guest tutors have included: Victoria Pile (Creator – Green Wing), Tony Orsten (CEO – The Imaginarium), Dr. Jo Twist (CEO – UKIE), Zai Bennett (Managing Director, Content – Sky Channels) and Caroline Levy (Director of Current Drama, BBC Television). 
• Real-life Experience: Students find and produce content for external industry clients, with previous examples including HM Treasury, Transport for London, Time Out, Nespresso, DHL, Mind, and Stonewall. 
• Professional tutors: Many of our teaching staff are currently working in the industry as: TV and film directors, broadcast journalists, producers, writers, and more.