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BA Film Practices

Newcastle University

Institution
Newcastle University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Film Practices
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
P313
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA (Hons) Photography, focused on documentary filmmaking and non-fiction film practice. Students work both independently and in film crews across individual and group projects, with a student exchange semester available. A Film Practice Project module provides a capstone experience, and graduates produce a portfolio of documentary and experimental non-fiction films.

Modules

  • Film Theory for Practice
  • Academic Skills for Film Practice
  • Introduction to Film Technologies
  • Introduction to World Cinema: Ideas, Art, Cultures
  • Starting out in Filmmaking
  • Introduction to the Documentary: From documentation to non-fiction film
  • Film Theory for Practice 2: Filmmakers and Manifestos
  • Filmmaking: Ideas to Screen
  • Making a Short Documentary
  • Creative Documentary Practices
  • Intersectional Approaches in Media & Cultural Studies
  • Student Exchange: Semester 1
  • Film Industry and Alternative Practices
  • Popular Culture: Futures & Fictions
  • Conflict and Crisis Reporting
  • Cities in East Asian Cinema: Culture, History and Identity
  • Observational Filmmaking
  • Film Practice Project
  • Popular Culture: Futures & Fictions
  • Conflict and Crisis Reporting
  • Youth, Identity and Contemporary Media
  • Memory Matters: Mediating Present Pasts for the Future
  • Storytelling and Collective Psychology
  • Digital Politics, Communication, and AI
  • Feminist Approaches to Media Analysis
  • Digital Discourses and Identity
  • Material Media: Bodies, Technology, Culture
  • Cities in East Asian Cinema: Culture, History and Identity