BA (Hons) Film (Full Time)

The BA (Hons) Film at Southampton Solent University is one of very few degrees to offer practical production units in film, digital film-making and screenwriting, alongside an exciting and stimulating programme of academic study. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and to see your production work exhibited at our graduate screening.

Focusing on critical argument and research, the degree incorporates three strands of study: theory, history and practice. You will be taught by experts in their fields including screenwriters, producers, directors and academics with an excellent range of published work.

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During your studies you will have access to professional digital video, high-definition and 16mm film-making production equipment in our suite of newly refurbished industry-standard studios. The library offers extensive resources for the research and study of film and houses the unique Ken Russell archive.

Your studies will equip you with a wide range of employability skills and provide excellent career prospects. The degree enables graduates to enter employment in a variety of fields – both inside and outside of the media and film industries – as well as going on to study at postgraduate level or entering teaching.

Industrial focus

A visiting-speaker programme and masterclasses with industry professionals are key features of the course. Students are given the opportunity to gain work experience on outside projects such as Glastonbury, Cowes Week and sporting events. Field trips are organised to film festivals at home and around the world including Rotterdam, New York and Berlin.

Course content

Year 1

Five core units:

• Issues in Film History
• Reading the Screen
• Film, Culture and Industry
• Digital Video Production
• 16mm Film Production.

Year 2

Five core units and one option unit:

• Theories of the Text
• Spectators and Audiences
• Creative Production 1: Documentary
• Creative Production 2: Drama
• Classical Hollywood Cinema 2.

Options:

• Directing and Editing
• Cinematography and Sound Recording
• Crime and Noir
• The Western
• Screenwriting
• 16mm Film Production
• British Television Genre
• Screen Adaptations
• Gender and Sexuality on Screen
• Solent Live Level 2
• Guerrilla Film-making
• Short-Story Cinema
• Cult Film and TV
• World Cinema
• The Body
• Curriculum Plus.

Year 3

Three core units and one option unit:

• Contemporary British Film Culture
• Contemporary Cinema
• Major Dissertation/Major Screenwriting/Major Production.

Options:

• Stars and Performance
• Visualising War
• The Director
• Hollywood Musical
• Feminism and Film
• Film and the Holocaust
• The Time Machine
• Cinefantastic
• Sex on Screen
• Queer Cinema
• The Researcher
• Tortured Cinema
• Solent Live Level 3
• Curriculum Plus.

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Why choose Solent?

Students will gain a wide range of valuable career skills such as creative-thinking, organisational, communication, research and presentation skills that are highly valued by employers. They will enjoy opportunities to collaborate with musicians, actors, designers, animators and technicians from across the University and take advantage of exciting extracurricular opportunities.

• The staff team are experts in their fields, including academics, screenwriters, producers and directors.
• An excellent range of professional-standard facilities including film studios, screening rooms, editing suites and television studios.

Assessment

Coursework in the form of essays, research papers, reports, seminar presentations and film production. There is one exam in Year 1.

Projects/work experience

You have the opportunity to present your own work at the graduate screening in the final year. There is also the chance to work with external clients via Solent Creatives and Solent Productions (in-house production company and agency).

Key career skills

Writing, creative thinking, problem solving, presentation, research, self-evaluation, teamwork, communication.

Graduate quote

Georgius Misjura

“I had an amazing experience and gained a lot of priceless information about film and the industry at the University.”

Key info from UNISTATS