MA in Filmmaking
Enjoy a film school style experience in world-renowned arts university setting. The Goldsmiths MA in Filmmaking is housed in a new purpose-built media facility. All film projects are photographed on either super-16mm film or red.
This January-start programme aims to facilitate your creative and intellectual development whilst exploring your interest in the practice of contemporary fiction filmmaking. It is distinctive in that it focuses on the practical, analytical and creative aspects of filmmaking from a range of perspectives rather than solely from the perspective of the filmmaker as auteur.
Lois Jones, Filmmaker/Sound Designer
1 year full-time.
Please note this programme starts in January.
Deadline: 3 March if applying for funding (14 February if applying for external funding), otherwise 31 August.
When you are applying, please outline your first and second choice of specialist roles (see information in the column on the right). You should also emphasise your practical/theoretical experience in the arts or the media.
Once you have submitted an online application, please post an example of your recent work in a related field, any additional material to: Admissions Office, Goldsmiths, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK. Please make sure you include your application reference number (which you will receive when you enter your online application) and the MA degree title. Web links to online portfolios and moving-image samples are acceptable for this programme.
Please see ‘Returning your work’.
Due to the popularity of this programme we ask you for a deposit of £450 to secure any offer made to you after applying for the programme. The deposit will be credited against your tuition fees when you enrol.
Find out more about applying
As well as an undergraduate degree in the humanities, you should have a level of practical experience from work in the arts or the media.
If your first language is not English, you normally need a minimum score of 7.0 in IELTS (including 7.0 in the written element) or equivalent. If you have not yet achieved IELTS 7.0, you will need to inform us of the date of your upcoming IELTS exam. The deadline to achieve IELTS 7.0 for this January start programme is 1 October of the preceeding year. Find out more about our English Language requirements.
AHRC
Our students go on to pursue a variety of careers ranging across the media and cultural industries. A number also pursue further studies and occupy academic posts throughout the world.
We aim to help you develop yourself as a creatively and conceptually capable sound designer, editor, cinematographer, producer or director. In addition to practical filmmaking skills, we encourage you to develop a variety of transferable intellectual, organisational and communication skills to equip you for future employment.
Please see Tuition fees.
Please see further information about this course.
Please see Staff research interests.
Contact Gerry McCulloch (Sound Design, Cinematography, Lighting) or Robert Smith (Editing, Producing, Directing)
For this reason, the programme allows you to specialise in one of several filmmaking craft areas: Sound Design, Editing, Cinematography-Camera, Cinematography-Lighting, Producing or Directing. Innovation and the integration of film theory with practice are important components of the programme. The academic content of the MA concentrates on situating creative filmmaking within a wider enquiry into media practice as a cultural activity.
The MA is structured around the making of short films in small production teams. You work on at least one film per term in your specialist role, culminating in a major production towards the end of the degree. In addition to choosing a single specialist area on which to concentrate, you attend classes in related disciplines and collaborate with students across the specialisations on film projects. This framework is designed to stimulate collaborative practice by providing you with a breadth of filmmaking knowledge combined with a high level of expertise in one of six key filmmaking roles.
What you study
- Introduction
- Programme overview
- Time commitment
- Best Short Script competition
- Project costs
- Guidelines for applicants
- Film excerpts
Fee Waivers NOW AVAILABLE for 2012/13
Fee waivers now available for 2012/13 across all MA programmes to selected students. Whichever MA course you apply for this year, if you accept an unconditional offer you will automatically become eligible for the fee waiver scheme that will fund waivers equivalent in total to 13 full time home/EU fees.
Overseas students are also eligible for the scheme. Only applications received by the official deadline will be considered for fee waivers. Successful students will be notified by May 30 2012.
Assessment
Examination of finished film projects; examination of your reflections on the filmmaking process; examination of two formal essays.
Register your interest
If you register your interest in this programme we will keep you informed about open days and send you relevant further information. If you subsequently decide to apply for this programme you will be able to use the same login details to apply.
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