First Year
• Film-making, writing and production
• Script writing
• Digital production skills
• Moving image production, camera, lighting, sound and editing
• Super 8mm film
• Lighting and Sound for theater
• Theatre Production
• Working with clients on live briefs
• Short films and digital content
• How the creative industries work
• Visual culture and how it inspires your work

Second Year
• Your specialist area of study
• Film-making working with 16mm/super 8mm film, digital production, live streaming/broadcast content
• Work for festival, competition or digital distribution
• A more theoretical approach to creating moving image content
• Your ideas for your dissertation
• A professional pathway in your chosen specialist role
• Theatre production
• Devising with Actors

Final Year
• A minor exploratory or experimental TV project
• A final negotiated project in film or theatre production
• A Portfolio that spans traditional and social media routes
• Work for Exhibition and Distribution
• Your Dissertation

Our graduates have gone on to pursue careers in film making, television production and theatre industries including:

• Scott Mann - Director & Producer: Final Score
• Heist (with Robert De Niro)
• The Tournament
• Tom Marshall – Director: Famalan
• Chewing Gum
• Wasted
• Sarah Gledhill - Production Management Assistant: Secret Britain
• Flog it!

As well as having access to a brand new television and film studio and 129 seat theatre space already in use for students. A new 30,000 sq ft commercial film and television sound stage facility and studio complex ‘The Northern Studios’ is currently in development. Which will provide on the doorstep access to the only television and film studio in the North East.
These facilities will allow students from our stage and screen degree an extraordinary opportunity for access to industry guest speakers and the possibility of work experience on professional film and television programmes, as well as industrial links within both the worlds of stage and screen.

Your portfolio is a visual statement it says a lot about an applicant and their practice. The advice below is not meant to be restrictive but rather offers some simple advice to help you prepare for your interview.

What we like to see
Evidence of some of your own moving image or recorded media be it visual, sound, or edited material either in college, or under your own initiative, e.g. a Youtube or Vimeo Short Films or a theatre production you may have been involved with. Show that you think about film and theatre and/or write about it. You may want to show us some script ideas, which you are developing too.

Photography
We are aware that it is not always easy to demonstrate theatre involvement but photographs are a good alternative to bring if you are unable to show us your own moving image or theatre productions. This enables us to see how you see through the lens and how you frame and select shots.

Written work
May include film/programme reviews, scripts.