Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Film Production University of Staffordshire - Stoke-on-Trent Campus, UK

Do you want to see your story ideas on the big screen or produce inspiring content for your favourite brands or musicians? Our intensive film production course will give you the expertise to influence and inspire future audience and turn your passion for film production into a successful career.

Our multi award-winning film production course aims to develop your creative, practical, and technical filmmaking skills and enable you to link theory to your practice. This course is practice focused, so you’ll learn about film production by making films. Working as a multi-disciplinary practitioner your will learn how to research, develop, write, produce, direct, shoot, edit and promote your own short films.

You’ll engage with practical film production projects and build a portfolio of creative work that supports your future career aspirations. You’ll join a creative community of students who are passionate about developing careers in the film production industry. You’ll work collaboratively across the Department of Creative Industries, fulfilling key crew roles on creative projects and broadening your film making experience. You can tailor your filmmaking practice and specialise on a chosen field including short drama and documentary films, music videos, experimental films, branded content, and client based commercial projects.

You’ll get hands on with industry leading film production equipment right from your first week of your course. Much of your time will be spent working on location or in our professional film production studios and post-production facilities.

To enrich your academic and practical studies you can engage with field trips to art galleries, film screening and leading UK film festivals. You will have the opportunity to visit some of the UK's leading production facilities and attend a residential film shoot in places such as the Lake District.

Right from your first semester and throughout each stage of the course, you will also develop a range of entrepreneurial and business skills essential for employment. You will build a network of industry contacts and engage in periods of work experience, with the option to undertake placements as part of the course as well.

You can gain a range of additional certifications during your studies to support your career aspirations. These cover Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop, as well as AVID and DaVinci Resolve. You'll also have the opportunity to undertake CAA-compliant drone pilot certification. Our training course allows you to complete both the ground school and practical flying hours to obtain a full commercial drone pilot licence.

The course is also a member of NAHEMI (National Association in Higher Education of the Moving Image), a group of leading educators, who organises the exhibition of our student work at places such as the British Film Institute’s cinema in London and Aesthetica Film Festival in York.

Students studying this course are also eligible to apply for Royal Television Society bursaries which pay £1000 (terms and conditions apply) per year to support with living and study expenses as well as providing the recipient with networking opportunities, masterclasses, and access to an industry mentor.

Graduates from this course go on to become directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, sound designers across a wide range of film and media productions. Our graduates worked on productions such as Harry Potter, Avengers, James Bond, Mission Impossible and TV shows such as Game of Thrones, Black Mirror and Dr. Who as well as music videos for people such as Ed Sheeran, Aitch, Stormzy and Little Mix.

Check out our YouTube Channel to watch over 100 films that have been made by students during their time studying this course. Many of these films have won awards and screen at film festivals all over the world.

We also offer a Foundation Year in Creative Media Production that is a progression route to BA (Hons) Film Production, for those who might not have attained the entry requirements for direct entry onto the degree.  The Foundation Year in Creative Media Production will prepare you for Level 4 study, and allow you to work on BA (Hons) Film Production related projects.  Contact our advisors for more information about our Foundation Year entry.