Film and TV Production Ulster University

Overview

The overall aim of the Film and TV Production programme offered at Ulster University is to enable students to develop the advanced screen production, leadership and research skills required to facilitate the next generation of film makers, producers and researchers.

This programme aims to build upon your existing skills and knowledge of media production, audiences, and culture. The course is designed to help hone your research, technical and craft skills, building an industry-relevant portfolio of work and developing culturally engaged and thoughtful production work that engages in the ‘politics of making’. This is an inclusive, forward-thinking programme, creatively applying theory and practice, open to broad conceptions of storytelling and interdisciplinary approaches to film and TV production.

Career opportunities:

The screen-based sector is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Northern Ireland economy. This new programme has been developed with industry partners to ensure that the provision addresses current and future skills gaps in the sector and helps to create entrepreneurial and creative graduates who can not only address current skills deficits but also develop new businesses to grow the local sector. Illustrative graduate roles include:

• Directors, producers, showrunners

• Screenwriters for Film, TV and streaming media

• Cinematographers and camera operators

• Production designers

• Vision mixers.

• Production Management

• Virtual Production Supervisors