BA (Hons) Film and Television Production with a Placement Year
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Key Details
- Award
- Degree of Bachelor of Arts
- UCAS Course Code
- W6PP
- Course Length
- 4 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2025
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Course Overview
How do you produce film and television content that people will actually watch? And more importantly, how do you make a career out of doing it?
On our BA Film and Television Production with a Placement Year degree, you'll learn how to tell great media stories through hands-on film production experience. You'll also learn how to navigate the creative media industries and acquire a powerful mix of creative, critical, technical, and industry skills to launch your career. These skills will be put into practice on your placement year, where you’ll gain real-world experience in an industry setting.
During your time studying Film and Television Production with us, you'll build up a portfolio of creative outputs including films, documentaries, television programmes, scripts, podcasts and digital video content. Your creative development will be nurtured by our friendly and supportive teaching team, whose real-world industry experience and world-leading research expertise will help you take your filmmaking to the next level. You’ll also have full access to our professional facilities and equipment - including our newly updated Television Studio, Editing Suites, Recording Studios and a full range of industry standard camera, lighting, sound gear and software - for your coursework and personal projects.
UEA takes pride in being the ultimate hub for aspiring filmmakers and television creators. While studying with us in Norwich - the creative centre of the East of England – you’ll build up a strong network of likeminded creatives on your course and beyond. You’ll expand this network when you undertake your industry placement in your third year, gaining real-world experience that complements your course and enhances your career prospects.
Our students have interned at a range of local and national media production companies as well as at the East Anglian Film Archive, working and networking with industry professionals in the process. We also have close links with the British Film Institute in London and with film festivals, including the Norwich Film Festival. Our graduates have gone on to success as film industry executives, media managers, producers, and creative directors, or gone to work in film heritage. Your future in film and television production begins at UEA.
Placement Year
This version of the degree gives you the opportunity and support to greatly enhance your employability by securing and undertaking a 9-12 month placement in the third year of your degree. You'll be expected to source your own work Placement with the support of UEA's CareerCentral Service and your School.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity on our Placement Years in Arts and Humanities page.
Study and Modules
Structure
Through compulsory first year modules, you'll learn essential, hands-on skills in filmmaking, live television production and media writing by creating a range of film and television content. Making extensive use of the university’s professional film and television production facilities and equipment, you'll develop the technical and storytelling abilities needed to make engaging media, as well as how to manage and structure a creative project. You'll also develop your skills in media literacy (i.e. how to watch film and television to make film and television) and your core knowledge of the media industry.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 20)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Over the course of your degree, you'll be taught by experienced film and television practitioners, who draw upon their real-world professional practice across media production to hone your creativity and prepare you for industry. Alongside this, world leading researchers in film, television and digital media will deepen your knowledge of how and why media is made. You'll have regular contact with your tutors through timetabled learning and teaching sessions, as well as through dedicated office hours where you can come and seek additional advice and guidance on a one-to-one basis. Our dedicated team of skilled technicians will also offer hands-on support and advice with the technical and logistical aspects of your creative practice projects, and you’ll also be assigned an adviser who can support you through your studies by providing academic and career guidance.
In the first year, you'll learn your craft through workshops and seminar sessions. In workshops, you’ll get hands-on training in the key practical elements of film and television production (camera, lighting, sound, editing, etc.) and then put these into practice under the guidance of your tutors. These sessions make extensive use of our professional practice facilities including the television studio and media suite. In seminars, you’ll explore the creative and logistical side of your filmmaking practice and explore the big questions around film, television and media through group activities, tutor led discussions, discussions and debates.
Assessment
Our assessments are designed to prepare you for work in the media industries by developing your creative and critical thinking and giving you skills that are valuable to future employers.
In your core Film and Television Production modules, you'll be assessed on the creative projects (films, documentaries, television programmes, scripts and digital media) that you produce. This will take the form of group or individual work depending on the module or assignment. Other assessments that you may undertake include critical reflections, individual or group presentations, written analysis, critical commentaries, video essays, reports and podcasts.
Structure
Your second year gives you opportunities to develop your skills in fiction and non-fiction filmmaking, post-production, script development and screenwriting. You'll advance your technical abilities in camera operation, sound and editing, hone your visual storytelling and deepen your knowledge of media history and industry through optional film and media studies modules. Over this year, you'll produce more refined – and increasingly showreel ready – film and television projects. This year also has the option of a placement module.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 40)Optional B Modules
(Credits: 40)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
You'll continue to develop your skills through workshop and seminar sessions which will build upon the creative, technical and logistical skills that you explored in year one. You'll explore more specialized areas of film and television pre-production, production and post-production through your learning sessions and independent study.
Assessment
You’ll be asked to reflect on your placement by, for instance, offering a self-appraisal of what you’ve learnt and demonstrate your broader commercial awareness of your placement’s sector.
Structure
Your third year will be spent on your placement, providing you with the opportunity to experience industry while applying the skills and knowledge you’ve developed during your first two years of study.
Compulsory Modules
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
You’ll spend your third year on a placement. You’ll be responsible for securing the placement, supported by UEA’s well-established connections throughout the UK and beyond. During your placement, you’ll be supported by a placement mentor, who will regularly monitor and review your progress with you, and you’ll have access to remote support from UEA, too, to make sure everything is going smoothly and that you’re getting the most out of your experience.
Assessment
You’ll be asked to reflect on your placement by, for instance, offering a self-appraisal of what you’ve learnt and demonstrate your broader commercial awareness of your placement’s sector
Structure
In your final year, you can follow your passion and explore the area of film and television production that you’d like to work in. On optional modules with a more specialist focus, you'll hone specific skills and prepare for work in the media industries. These areas may include fiction and non-filmmaking, live broadcast television, sound post-production and online video content. You also have the option to deepen your creative voice and take charge of your own independent creative project.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Min Credits: 20, Max Credits: 60)Optional B Modules
(Min Credits: 20, Max Credits: 60)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Through workshops and seminars, you'll hone the specialist skills that you’ve already begun developing with an eye to entering the media industries. In this year, you’ll also have the option to undertake a creative dissertation, drawing upon the skills you’ve learned across the degree and putting you in control of the creative, logistical and technical aspects of a creative project.
Assessment
In your final year, you’ll also have the option to write, direct or produce a creative project of your choosing. Core modules will be assessed on creative outputs and other assessments that you may undertake include critical reflections, individual or group presentations, written analysis, critical commentaries, video essays, reports and podcasts.
Employability
After the Course
You’ll graduate with the skills to work in the film and television and media industries, both in the UK and elsewhere in the world. You’ll be prepared for roles in production, press and publicity, publishing (newspapers, books, and magazines), cultural heritage and archives, social media, and arts festivals. Alternatively, you’ll be able to continue your academic passion with postgraduate study at UEA.
As well as your subject-specific knowledge and skills, you’ll graduate with many transferable skills including high-level communication skills, teamwork, and self-management, all of which open doors to a wide variety of careers. At our annual event, ‘Working with Words’, you can meet and hear from a wide variety of successful UEA alumni from across the creative industries.
Careers
Examples of careers you could enter include:
- Film and TV production
- Media and game production
- Event management
- Marketing and publicity
- Journalism
- Publishing
Discover more on our Careers webpages.
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.
You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.
- English and Mathematics
All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or grade C.
In place of Mathematics GCSE we can also consider Functional Skills Level 2 Mathematics.
We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies page.
- Contextual Offers
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes.
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
A levels
BBB
Contextual offer: BCC
BTEC
Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM
Contextual offer: DMM
Combinations of BTEC and A levels
Extended Diploma: DDM
Contextual: DMM
Diploma: DD plus B at A level.
Contextual: DD plus C at A Level
Extended Certificate: D plus BB at A level.
Contextual: D plus BC at A Level.
BTEC in Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration are all excluded from our BTEC offers
Access to HE Diploma
Access to Humanities and Social Sciences Pathway. Pass Access to HE Diploma with Merit in 45 credits at Level 3
T levels
Obtain an overall Pass including a B in the core of the T Level and a Merit in the Occupational Specialism.
Any subject is acceptable.
Foundation Year options:
If you do not meet the academic requirements for direct entry, you may be interested in one of our Foundation Year programmes such as - Film and Television Production with a Foundation Year.
- Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements
International Baccalaureate
31 points overall
Irish Leaving Certificate
2 subjects at H2, 4 subjects at H3
Scottish Highers
AABBB
Scottish Advanced Highers
CCC. A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable
- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.
You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.
- English and Mathematics
All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or grade C.
In place of Mathematics GCSE we can also consider Functional Skills Level 2 Mathematics.
We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies page.
- Typical International Entry Requirements
We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. For specific details about your country, view our information for International Students.
A levels
BBB
BTEC
Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM
Combinations of BTEC and A levels
Extended Diploma: DDM
Diploma: DD plus B at A level.
Extended Certificate: D plus BB at A level.
BTEC in Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration are all excluded from our BTEC offers
International Baccalaureate
31 points overall
- INTO UEA
If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, INTO UEA offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components)
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study.
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- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
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Scholarships and Bursaries
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Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of other course-related costs.
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