Film

With emphasis on collaboration, this Film course from Edinburgh Napier University has been designed to help you embark on a career as a professional fiction filmmaker in one of the following disciplines:

• producing
• directing
• cinematography
• editing
• location sound recording and design

Teaching is through a combination of collaborative shared modules and modules that focus on individual disciplines. The two core practice-based modules, Creative Practice and Collaborative Techniques, complement each other, concentrating on professional practice within the framework of the industry crew structure.

Coursework consists of a large number of practical exercises, workshops and short film projects that allow students to deepen their own technical, creative and professional filmmaking skills. The course also includes academic research and reporting in your chosen discipline, and theoretical modules including critical film study. The course is approximately 60% practical and 40% theoretical.

The year's work and study culminates in a major project module in which students continue to work collaboratively, in their chosen disciplines, on one or more short scripted dramas.

Career opportunities:

• Director
• Assistant Director
• Producer/Production Management
• Location Manager
• Cinematographer
• Editor
• Assistant Editor
• Location Sound Mixer
• Sound designer

This course is industry recognised by ScreenSkills

Courses include:

• Collaborative Techniques in Film
• Creative Practice for Cinema
• Creative Practice for Film and TV
• Critical Film Study
• Masters Film Project