Film, Television and Digital Production

In the first two years, you'll gain a grounding in the core elements relating to film, television and digital production. As you progress, you'll have the opportunity to specialise, and create an individualised programme of work tailored to your interests.

You'll develop practical and creative projects highlighting your technical and craft skills. Alongside this you'll demonstrate critical and theoretical understanding. Throughout the course, you'll have opportunities to work on group and individual projects, enhancing your skills and creative ideas.

You'll learn skills for working life, such as decision making in complex and unpredictable contexts, working in groups, and making use of technical and creative resources.

You'll become a socially engaged global citizen, with intercultural and global understandings and perspectives, and an awareness of innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Year one
In the first year you'll study three pathways; single camera production, TV studio production and digital production. Within these pathways you'll engage in contextual work, including film and TV theory and formats, narrative theory and socially conscious social media content creation.

Year two
You'll continue your work in single camera production and advanced TV production. You'll create fiction and non-fiction content, working collaboratively in studios and on location. You'll begin to work towards specialising in specific roles such as cinematography, sound or editing. The optional module system will then allow you to begin to define your chosen pathway and might include areas such as visual effects, motion graphics, screenwriting or global cinemas.

Year three
Your final year will be project-led. You'll have the opportunity to engage in collaborative productions, undertake in-depth post-production activities, and complete individualised practice-based projects. In these projects you'll benefit from close staff supervision. You'll also develop your skills for industry including developing your CV, showreel, and preparation for approaching employers.

This film and TV production degree is delivered primarily through practical workshops. These are supported by lectures, seminars and tutorials.

You'll work individually and in groups, encouraging you to work effectively as a collaborative group member. You’ll also get the chance to lead – as a director or producer. You'll be taught how to manage your time effectively. You’ll also be shown how to use industry standard planning documents and approaches to project management. You'll benefit from visiting industry speakers and practical industry workshops.

To find out more about how we teach and how you'll learn, please read our Learning and Teaching Delivery Statement.

Assessment is through coursework. This will be a combination of project and group work, practice-based portfolios, seminar presentations and individual essays.

As part of your degree, you could study abroad on a placement at one of Bath Spa’s partner universities.

You’ll have amazing opportunities to film in a variety of locations in the region as part of your single camera work. We also visit commercial TV studios.

Previous students have filmed in a variety of historic and cultural areas such as Bath and Bristol city centres, and in beautiful rural countryside in the West of England.

There are opportunities throughout the programme to embark on work placements, subject to your interests and availability.

The broad nature of the course has facilitated a wide range of employment opportunities for our students.

Our students have gone on to work at:

• BBC
• ITV
• Netflix
• Framestore
• Marvel
• Bristol Bears
• Films@59
• Sky
• OneTribeTV
• Studio Lambert.

They have worked in varied roles including:

• Production managers
• Editors
• Social media content creators
• Assistant directors
• Motion graphics artists
• Production coordinators.

We also have students who have started their own companies and businesses.

If you’re a full-time undergraduate student starting your first year at Bath Spa University, you can apply for the Certificate in Global Citizenship, which you’ll study alongside your degree.

You’ll gain global awareness and add an international dimension to your student experience, and funding is available. On successful completion of the programme, you’ll be awarded a Certificate in Global Citizenship. This is in addition to your degree; it doesn’t change your degree title or results.

The Professional Placement Year (PPY) provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.

By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.

Before your PPY, you'll work to identify roles of interest and secure a placement. The Placements Team will support through timetabled sessions and 1:1 appointments.

As well as completing a minimum of 900 placement hours, you will complete two assessments demonstrating your skill development, growth in professional behaviours and how the PPY has impacted your future career aspirations.

You'll be taught at Newton Park campus. Your learning will take place at a variety of facilities and locations, which could include:

• Commons building
• TV and post-production studio
• Live locations
• Newton Park library

The Newton Park studio complex provides two TV studios and a gallery which allows for live vision mixing. The studio has a number of HD digital cameras and a variety of lighting rigs.

In addition there is a series of TV production suites consisting of post-production rooms for editing video clips such as news bites or other video inserts for inclusion in live, multi camera, studio-based programmes.

For location based, single camera shooting, you can hire out equipment using SISO, Bath Spa University’s free equipment loan service.