MA in Screen Documentary
Carolina, MA in Screen Documentary
1 year full-time.
Deadline: 1 March for entry the following September. If you're applying for funding, you may be subject to an earlier application deadline – 14 February is the deadline if you're applying for AHRC funding.
You should submit a short (1-2 page) Treatment of a documentary idea with your application, which gives an indication of style as well as content. When submitting your application, please also submit (upload under 'additional') an example of your recent work in a related field, or include links to a page hosting that work. Failing which, please post an example of that work 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. Please see ‘Returning your work’. Web links to online portfolios and moving-image samples are acceptable for this programme.
We 'batch' applications for this programme. This means that we'll wait until the closing date and then assess all applications together, to make sure they receive equal consideration. Therefore you won't receive a decision from us until after the closing date.
Applications received by the deadline are guaranteed consideration; we will consider later applications if there are vacancies.
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.
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As well as an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a related subject, 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. Find out more about our English Language requirements.
The Department of Media and Communications may offer fee waivers for this programme. Check the most up-to-date information on our departmental awards page.
Find out more about funding opportunities for home/EU applicants, or funding for international applicants.
Please see Tuition fees.
References - our departmental preference is for referees to upload a confidential reference to the on-line admissions system. Please make sure to select the option for your referees to be automatically notified of the need for them to submit a reference on your behalf.
Please see Staff research interests.
Contact Tony Dowmunt
This MA develops your skills and creative vision in the field of screen documentary production, and your understanding of the historical context and contemporary modes of documentary production, against a background of the wider theoretical issues raised in media production.
It encourages a practical and theoretical understanding of the politics, aesthetics and ethics of documentary production and the nature and diversity of documentary practice in contemporary society.
Our former students have gone on to win awards including:
- Best Documentary at the Exposures Film Festival
- Postgraduate Factual Prize at the Royal Television Society Student Awards
- Best Documentary at the No Limits Film Festival
They've also launched their own film festivals, worked on critically acclaimed films and documentaries, and have had their work screened at the London International Documentary Festival, National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival and Open City, the London Documentary Festival.
What you study
A mixture of production and theoretical components cover:
- the skills required to research and develop documentary programme ideas, and to take them through to a completed programme
- the development of the documentary, including contemporary issues and problems surrounding the form (placed within the context of different genres, modes of production, and the work of particular directors and producers)
- the relationship between theory and practice in the context of debates about postmodernism
See further information on the history of the course and former students.
Skills
The MA encourages you to develop:
- production management skills
- technical skills (including camera, lighting and sound editing)
- an awareness of documentary production techniques
- an understanding of the workings of the media and their broad cultural and social impacts
- specific practice skills to a high level
- an understanding of the pleasures of media consumption
Careers
Graduates of this programme have gone on to work in television, radio, broadcasting, the press, publishing, and film-making.
Our former students regularly win awards, have their films screened at festivals, and get involved with critically acclaimed work. Find out more on our alumni news page.
Assessment
Coursework, exercises and short projects; an original television production of approximately 20 minutes; two essays.
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