Film and Media Production MA

at Coventry University

Why you should study this course
 

The course places emphasis on experiential learning and offers a creative space in which experimental and innovative ways of working can be accommodated. It is based on critical practice and invites you to respond to the problems of media production now and how it has been shaped by key historical practitioners.
 

• The course has been instrumental in exploring software which is then introduced to the school and campus as a whole. The most successful iteration being the introduction of Klynt which is being used now by Media Production and Digital Media amongst others.
   

• All student work is outward facing; productions from every semester are shown publicly using our state of the art media base at The Tank. These regular screenings and actions ensure real life public reaction to the work produced that in turn influences practice in progress.
   

• You will have access to professional equipment via our dedicated Media Loan Shop and studios. The Media Loan Shop has state-of-the-art equipment including GoPro Camera kits, Cannon and Nikon Photographic and Video cameras (inc. DSLR), Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4.6K EF camera collection Edirol recorders, and a range of photographic lenses, lighting and filters (terms and conditions apply).
   

• Coming to study in a hugely diverse city which has been awarded the title of City of Culture 2021, meaning huge local investment, epitomised in the ten-year Cultural Strategy for Coventry.

What you'll study
 

The course seeks to enhance our understanding of filmmaking and related media practice in the context of new forms of production and exhibition, including new screen practices, moving image in the gallery, 360 cinema and Go-Pro aesthetics.
 

Seen through the lens of traditional analogue formats, the emergence of new technologies has been seen to put these in crisis. However, the centrality of filmmaking and narrative storytelling in a culture of streaming, fragmented exhibition, and glitching visuality has never felt so strong.

Modules
 

• Critical Media Practice - 20 credits
   

  The module explores emergent forms of media production and alternative strategies for project realisation in terms of subject matter, content, style, medium, scale, technical characteristics and impact. The module begins from the students’ current knowledge and practice, raising questions about their own processes of 'making'.
   

• Research Methods - 20 credits
   

  This module provides students with the theoretical, conceptual, investigative and practical tools needed to develop their own independent research and comprehend which methods will best support their response to a particular research project.
   

• Entrepreneurial Practice – 10 credits
   

  This CMI module1 aims to provide students with a framework of knowledge and understanding of how to effectively lead and develop people in a strategic and entrepreneurial way whatever the Master’s degree of specialisation they elect to follow.
   

• Collaborative Social Challenge Project - 10 credits
   

  This project module aims to allow students to develop their independent and collaborative working skills through a focussed application and response to a specific context. Working with peers from within School of Media & Performing Arts MA courses and/or external partners, students will develop an interdisciplinary response to a live brief generated by addressing and engaging with a social challenge.
   

• Emerging Media Practice - 20 credits
   

  This module focuses on a range of contemporary experimental approaches in combining audio with moving image creatively with new media interfaces. The module requires the students to experiment with forms, conventions, techniques and practices and critically formulate how their own work can develop and extend into these new forms.
   

• Final Project (Research and Planning) - 30 credits
   

  The aim of this module is for students to develop a body of research-informed work in a specialism of their choosing, which demonstrates a critical awareness of current developments and trends in their area of practice/specialism. This work will form the basis of the student’s final project.
   

• Collaborative Community Project - 10 credits
   

  This project module aims to allow students to develop their independent and collaborative working skills through a focussed application and response to a specific context. Working with peers from within School of Media & Performing Arts MA courses and/or external partners, students will develop an interdisciplinary response to a live brief (subject to availability2) generated by engaging with a community issue with the support or guidance of a local group or organisation.
   

• New Media Narratives - 20 credits

  The module focuses on the construction of new forms of storytelling, through the combination of traditional screenwriting techniques with the affordances of digital technology. The module will introduce students to new possibilities of storytelling and new potential in hybrid forms that allow for alternative viewpoints, collaborative working and new forms of distribution and exhibition.
   

• Final Project (Production and Sharing) - 30 credits
   

  In this module, students will manage to completion a substantial piece of independent research practice that is informed by the wider contexts of their discipline, and is well-conceived, well-rounded, coherent and of a standard appropriate to Masters level.
   

• Collaborative Enterprise Project - 10 credits
   

  This project module aims to allow students to develop their independent and collaborative working skills through a focussed application and response to a specific context. Working with peers from within School of Media & Performing Arts MA courses and/or external partners, students will develop an interdisciplinary response to a live brief generated by exploring opportunities for enterprise within their practice. Students will explore potential routes to monetise their work and consider their roles as members of the future media and performing arts workforce.

How you'll learn
 

You will engage with a series of different learning activities and resources which include:
 

• Group critiques
   

• Artist talks and lectures
   

• Masterclasses
   

• Seminars
   

• Tutorials
   

• Workshops
   

This course can be offered on a part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary.

UK

Applicants to this Master’s degree should normally possess a good honours degree (2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. If the degree is in an unrelated subject, applicants need to demonstrate appropriate industry knowledge and experience in their application documentation.
 

Each applicant will be required to include a short statement regarding their interest in studying on the MA Film and Media Production course at Coventry University (300-500 words) and are invited to include a link to an online portfolio in order that the course team can get to know their practice. All applicants will be offered a videoconferencing conversation as part of the application where they will have the opportunity to meet with a member of the course team and ask questions about the programme of study.
 

Candidates with professional/industrial experience, and/or other relevant training and experience may be admitted with lower qualifications.
 

Non-traditional entry students are welcome: applicants without formal qualifications but professional/industrial experience may be admitted on the basis of interview and submission of supporting material.
 

Each application will be considered on its merits and the final decision will be made by the course director

English language requirements

IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5. 

International Tuition Fees:

£18600 per year

On successful completion of the course you will be able to:
 

• Demonstrate the ability to work creatively and effectively within a range of emergent media forms;
   

• Demonstrate the technical, organisational and creative skills required to function as an independent digital media practitioner in an international context;
   

• Think critically and reflexively about the full range of factors that impinge upon creative activities within digital media;
   

• Apply specialist knowledge in order to engage in new media practices in the field with communities of interest reflecting local, national and international concerns;
   

• Engage in radically challenging media practice through continuing innovative approaches of engagement and impact;
   

• Apply a continuing experimental approach to hybridity between conventional and new media forms to creatively interrupt entrenched conventions.
   

Preparing our Masters graduates for onward careers is central to our approach to learning and teaching on the course. This includes developing authentic assessment, collaborative opportunities, placements, and advice and guidance for onward study on PhD programmes here and internationally. Our three collaborative modules provide opportunities to work with students in photography, VR/AR, as well as media management and media/communication studies. You will be able to take advantage of cross-Faculty connections and collaborations, as well as placement and onward opportunities with the support of our Talent Team.
 

Where our graduates work
 

This course is part of the Media Cluster in the School of Media and Performing Arts. Our students have gone on to work in: digital music services in The Netherlands; as research posts at the Five College Women’s Centre, Massachusetts USA; in PR companies in Saudi Arabia; in government organisations and broadcasters in Africa; and as producers in TV stations in China. Our graduates also regularly go on to set up their own companies across the globe.