MA Film and Television Production
Key Details
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Arts
- Course Length
- 1 year
- Course Start Date
- September 2025
Course Overview
Develop your creative skills, technical knowledge, and critical thinking with the MA in Film and Television Production. Learn through a mix of practical film and TV production workshops and projects, as well as classes that give you an in-depth understanding of these global industries. If you’re brimming with ideas and want to take your creativity to the next level, then this MA is for you.
You’ll be joining UEA’s highly reputed centre of learning in Film, Television, and Media. Our world-leading researchers, industry experts, and media technicians offer you an outstanding learning experience. Together, they’ll support you as you learn how to interpret as well as make film and television, and as you master the technical skills needed to realise your own vision.
Through the course, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the creative process in the media industries. Learn how to develop your ideas for different media forms and in film and video production. You’ll also take classes looking at key topics, genres, social and cultural issues, or facets of the media industries. In your final project you can focus in depth on a subject that inspires you.
Throughout, you’ll have access to our state-of-the art Media Suite and dedicated, on-campus television studio. Known as BLOC, our media production facilities are where you’ll find the technology and technical support you need for success, from cameras to editing suites, sound equipment to digitisation equipment. Our first-class team of media technicians offer training and guidance throughout your studies. UEA is home to the East Anglian Film Archive too, a unique collection of films and TV programmes and amateur home recordings. This archive is available to you to explore as you go looking for inspiration for your own projects. We have close links with the British Film Institute in London, and to the Norwich Film Festival, which takes place right here. As well as being located within reach of the capital, Norwich is a dynamic and well-connected centre of the media industries.
When you graduate, you’ll be poised to enter the media industries, equipped with creativity, technical know-how, and an understanding of the industry. Perhaps you want to become a writer, producer, or director, or a media executive. Perhaps you want to refine your creativity as a way of understanding film and television before you take your transferable skills in communication, teamworking, and self-management into a career in marketing, advertising, the charity sector, or other business pursuit. Or perhaps you’ll build on your MA studies and pursue a PhD. Whatever direction you choose to take, this MA will be the start of an exciting journey.
Study and Modules
Structure
You can take the MA Film and Television Production as either a one-year full-time course or a two-year part-time course.
You’ll have the opportunity to refine your existing critical academic and practical production skills through a series of core modules, which will be followed by a choice of optional modules, allowing you to specialize in the areas that interest you most and align with your career goals.
As a full-time student, you’ll begin by exploring the methods and theories commonly used to study media topics, and the scholarly approaches to studying television’s connections to society. You’ll get hands-on with a compulsory module on video production.
You’ll choose two theory-based modules to tailor your course to your own interests and career goals. On a more practical note, you’ll also learn how to pitch ideas to industry through a module on the business of film and television.
You’ll spend the summer producing an audio-visual project supported by a written portfolio. For this, you’ll develop an academic question, which you’ll then answer using your production and research skills – for example, by making a documentary on your topic of study.
Your dissertation is the perfect way to combine your intellectual and theoretical knowledge with your practical skills.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 60)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
You’ll learn from world-leading academics in many different ways – from the more traditional lectures, tutorials and seminars to regular film and television screenings, workshop-based teaching, production modules and practical assignments. You’ll also have access to our Media Suite, full of cutting-edge media technologies including editing, camera and sound equipment. So, prepare to get hands on with these to develop essential skills for the job market and a deeper understanding of how film and television content is produced.
We’ll support you to become a fully independent scholar by the time you submit your dissertation. Up until that point you’ll work around 30 hours a week on your MA – with the majority of that time spent on independent research and reading.
You’ll work under supervision during your dissertation, and over time you’ll take more and more control over the direction of your study. Your dissertation is your opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the area that you’re most passionate about.
Assessment
We know that every student has different strengths, so we use a range of individual and group assessment methods – from essays to presentations and assessed discussions. All these assessments help strengthen your critical thinking and give you skills that are attractive to future employers.
We also use formative assessments, which do not contribute to your overall mark, but do prepare you for the assessments that do. These offer an excellent opportunity to test the knowledge you’ve learned through your modules and strengthen the chances of better marks at the end of them.
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
Degree classification
Bachelors degree - 2.2
Degree Subject
Any subject area
- Additional Entry Requirements
Applicants are expected to have experience of using editing software and professional level cameras. Details of the cameras/editing software that have been used should be listed on the relevant section of the application form.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
- Typical International Entry Requirements
Degree classification
UK Bachelors degree - 2.2 or equivalent
Degree Subject
Any subject area
- Additional Entry Requirements
Applicants are expected to have experience of using editing software and professional level cameras. Details of the cameras/editing software that have been used should be listed on the relevant section of the application form.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
-
IELTS: 6.0 overall with minimum 6.0 in Writing & Speaking and 5.5 in Listening & Reading
Test dates should be within 2 years of the course start date.
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:
-
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2025/26 are:
-
UK Students: £10,675
-
International Students: £22,700
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students).
We estimate living expenses at £1,136 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here.
Scholarships and Bursaries
The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships; please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.
How to Apply
How to apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form.
Further information
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk
International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students section of our website.
Employability
After the Course
MA Film and Television Production graduates go on to a wide variety of fields. Some have chosen to work in the film, television, and media industries, both in the UK and elsewhere in the world, in roles in production, press and publicity, publishing (newspapers, books and magazines), cultural heritage and archives, social media, and arts festivals. Many also continue their academic passion through PhD study at UEA.
As well as subject-specific knowledge and skills, you’ll develop many transferable skills on this course, including high-level communication skills, team working, and self-management, all of which open a wide variety of careers. At our annual event, 'Working with Words', you can meet and hear from a wide variety of successful UEA alumni from across the creative industries.
Careers
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
- Film and TV production
- Publicity officers
- Cultural heritage and archives
- Arts festivals
- Social media
- Publishing (books, magazines, newspapers)
Discover more on our Careers webpages.