MA Wildlife Filmmaking

at University of the West of England

Modules
 

• Creating the Story
• Mastering the Business
• Preparing for Production
• Future Documentary
• Professional production

Usually applicants will have an undergraduate degree. Previous media skills may be helpful, but are not essential.  We are looking for highly motivated individuals who can demonstrate their ability to come up with documentary ideas and the potential to develop their technical, editorial and organisational skills.
 

Applicants will be asked to provide the below for review:
 

• A programme idea for short-form wildlife documentary (no more than a single side of A4)
• A list of ten documentary titles you have seen, and a paragraph on each giving us your thoughts. These need not be all wildlife documentaries.
• A sample of something you have made. This could be film, photography, written, illustrations, or another creative form.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an online interview for which you'll need to provide a show reel or concise portfolio of previous work. This may include audio, film, video, photography and writing.

English Language Requirement

• International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).

International Students
£17250 / year

Students have worked on BBC series, produced films for the Festival of Nature, The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, the RSPB and the Zoological Society of London - some of the UK's top wildlife and conservation organisations.
 

We also have an ongoing partnership with Wildscreen, the award-winning wildlife conservation charity and Encounters, the Bristol-based international short film festival. Students have been highly commended in the British Wildlife Photography Awards HD film category and were nominated in the Wildscreen Panda Awards. Graduates have also secured internships and employment with the BBC and other organisations such as Discovery, Icon Films, RDF and Tigress Productions.