Film and Screen Production University of Derby

Overview

Build your experience and network

If you are a scriptwriter, you will be encouraged to enter international script competitions and compete for grants. We also have links with national development agencies such as Creative England, the BFI, and BBC Writers' Room. Uniquely, the University owns Derby Theatre, a professional producing and learning theatre, so you will also have an opportunity to work alongside theatre professionals here.

Careers

This MA in Film and Screen Production is designed to prepare you for a wide range of roles in the film and screen production industries, from entry level production assistants to producers, directors, writers, cinematographers, sound recordists and postproduction specialists.

You will also be able to move on to study at MPhil/PhD level, particularly if you opted to take the Advanced Research Project in the final trimester of the course.Finding work in the film and broadcast industry is notoriously challenging, but we will guide you. We have a network of professional contacts, including production companies and national screen agencies that support emerging film and screen content makers.

Film graduates from our undergraduate programme have set up their own production company, Goldbox, which produces video work for high-profile individuals such as Bear Grylls. Meanwhile, graduates from our previous scriptwriting MA, Writing for Performance, have won industry scriptwriting commissions for film, television and radio and are successfully developing careers in writing.

As a graduate from this MA, you will also be valued by employers because of your high-level transferable skills in communication, technical processes and methodologies, research, and creativity. You will also possess curiosity and imagination, alongside excellent problem-solving skills.