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Edinburgh Napier University
Advanced Film Practice (MFA)
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This one year course gives you the chance to develop, produce and complete a short cinema film to professional standards. In parallel with this you will develop your creative and professional skills through practical exercises and master classes with leading industry practitioners. You will be working in a busy filmmaking hub in the culturally vibrant city of Edinburgh. We offer great scope for collaboration, with more than 200 students engaged in film activities – from cinematography and editing to documentary and animation.
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| Duration |
1 year full time |
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MA |
| Cost |
To be confirmed. |
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| As an aspiring screenwriter, director or producer, you'll be aware of the importance of hands-on experience that leads to finished projects. Apart from acquiring practical skills, you'll create projects that can form the basis of your portfolio. In this course, you'll develop your existing skills to a near-professional level, collaborating with students and working practitioners alike to create a fully funded short film, documentary, feature film script or similar finished creative product. Through visiting speakers and industry-based teaching staff, you'll make contacts that will help you navigate your way into this highly competitive industry. Your qualification carries Screen Academy status, the only film qualification in Scotland to offer this, and one of only a few throughout the UK. On entry into this course, you will already have demonstrated advanced skills in production, direction or screenwriting. By graduation, you will have honed these skills and added to them, exiting the course at a level that approaches professional standard. You'll learn techniques that will allow you to further develop your creative voice, plus the production skills necessary to bring a film project to completion. As you will be working on a project of your own, with a real budget and collaborative team, these skills will be consolidated through practical experience. |
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Requirements |
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Usual requirements for admission to the MFA Advanced Film Practice programme are an honours degree and a Masters in a film-related discipline. We may consider candidates who possess professional or semi-professional experience equivalent to formal qualifications.
All applicants must submit a portfolio of work that best shows their abilities as a screenwriter, producer or director. Please see the list below:
A full CV and personal statement highlighting what you consider to be your most significant experience and achievements in education, work and life, why you want to undertake the MFA-AFP and what you hope to achieve in your career in film (maximum two pages).
Tangible evidence of your achievements: for writers, a completed short or feature film script - preferably of a film that has been produced (in which case, please include a copy of the film) - together with short extracts from other scripts (maximum additional 20 pages in total) for producers, a show reel of projects already produced plus a two-page summary of projects in production/development; for directors, one DVD (or VHS tape) of a completed (preferably short) film and showreel of other work. A proposal outlining the type of projects that you envisage writing, producing or directing if your application is successful (maximum two pages). Please identify a writer / producer / director whose work you particularly admire and tell us why. List your strengths and weaknesses as writer/director/producer and identify which aspect of your discipline you want to develop and improve during the programme. If your native language is not English, you must have IELTS level 7.0.
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Modules |
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Project Preparation: This module will enhance your skills in identifying, researching and developing viable screen ideas, and develop your storytelling, pitching and presentation skills. You will then develop your professional planning and collaboration skills through pre-production of a live project. The module enables you to refine your technical and craft skills, and develop originality of vision within your own film specialism, conceptualising your own practice in relation to historical and comparative movements in cinema. You will also develop your understanding of specific professional film production roles, including your own specialism and how they are integrated into the overall production process. Creative and Critical Practice: This module enables students to refine their technical and craft skills, and develop originality of vision within their own film specialism. It provides an opportunity for students to learn and draw from other related disciplines in the development of their own creative practice. And it enables students to conceptualise their own practice in relation to historical and comparative movements in cinema. Professional Practice: This module is designed to develop to an advanced level students' understanding of specific professional film production roles and practices and how they are integrated into the overall production process. Students will learn how to undertake their chosen specialist role in an effective and professional manner, to analyse their chosen specialist role in a professional context and observe how it is integrated into the overall production process. Project Development and Preproduction: This module is intended to enhance students' skills in identifying, researching and developing viable screen ideas, and develop students' storytelling, pitching and presentation skills. Students will then develop their professional planning and collaboration skills through pre-production of a live project. Project Production and Post Production: This module provides students with an opportunity to realise an advanced creative film project (and additional script in the case of screenwriters), and develops students' creative, technical and collaborative abilities to a professional level through their application to a live film project. Students also have the opportunity to reflect critically and analytically on the process, outcome and professional development implications of their project and its associated activity.
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Contact Information |
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Edinburgh Napier University
School of Design and Media Arts
Craig Lockhart Campus
Edinburgh, Scotland
EH14 1DJ
Tel: +44 (0) 131 455 2572 (Screen Academy Enquiries)
Fax: +44 (0) 131 455 2538
www.courses.napier.ac.uk/courses.aspx?ID=%2fAdvancedFilmPractice_W54709.htm
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| Department: |
Screen Academy Scotland |
| Contact Name: |
Paul Holmes Programme Leader, MFA Advanced Film Practice |
| Contact Email: |
screen@napier.ac.uk / p.holmes@napier.ac.uk (Paul Holmes) |
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