MA Filmmaking
Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 22,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
In the changing world of contemporary filmmaking, there is an increasing range of possibilities for future storytelling across different media and platforms. The School of Digital Arts (SODA) MA Filmmaking course explores filmmaking within a wide range of professional contexts. This includes a distinctive focus on short-form filmmaking, spanning narrative, documentary, artistic and technological practices across a range of platforms.
You will be encouraged to develop an authorial voice using a wide range of creative, conceptual and technological approaches to communicate your ideas and observations. Working with established techniques and experimental and disruptive production processes, you will have the opportunity to develop specialist skills whilst exploring a range of interdisciplinary and collaborative working methods within SODA.
Features and Benefits
- You will join a course that fosters interesting and diverse engagement with external partners within Manchester, the region, nationally and internationally.
- You will become an integral part of SODA - home to a creative community of interdisciplinary research staff with expertise in diverse fields of practice such as animation, filmmaking, photography, games art, immersive arts and sound design.
- You will have the space, guidance and technical resources to enable you to develop your independent practice, whilst taking advantage of the transdisciplinary activities provided by our offer of option modules and Co-Labs.
- You will have the opportunity to extend and develop your experience in the professional sphere by being introduced to our close links with national and international educational partners, research communities and strong links with the creative and digital sectors across the UK.
- By joining SODA at Manchester Met, you will become a part of the University’s dynamic research community within a city that is one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in Europe with a burgeoning arts scene and creative industries sector.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course information
On this course you will investigate the storytelling and expository potential of cinematic and immersive content through both traditional and emergent forms. Supported by a specialist team of professionals with industry experience in filmmaking, you will develop the critical perspectives and approach that will help to define your practice.
Year 1
Core Modules
- Interdisciplinary Practice 1 (Filmmaking)
- Interdisciplinary Practice 2 (Filmmaking)
- Independent Project
Option Modules
- Co-Lab 6 (Filmmaking)
- Critical Study
- Perspectives
- CG Industry Pipeline
- Sustainability and Digital Arts
- Digital Art Activism
- Spaces in XR Storytelling
- Professional Practice
- Exploration in CG
- VFX Group Production
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Career prospects
Courses at the School of Digital Arts have been developed with leading industry partners to ensure that you attain the industry-ready skills and technical abilities you'll need to gain experience, build a network and launch a career in the creative media, arts and digital tech industries.
Program delivery
Study
- Full-time 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 0% placement; 80% independent study
- Part-time 20% lectures, seminars or similar; 0% placement; 80% independent study
Assessment
- Full-time 100% coursework; 0% practical; 0% examination
- Part-time 100% coursework; 0% practical; 0% examination