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Welcome to the University of Northampton.Film and Screen Studies.
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Film and Screen Studies.
Why study at Northampton?
• Employability: 95% or more for five years running*
• Teaching excellence
• Research
• Social impact – UK’s first Changemaker Campus**
• Location
• More than just a good degree
* Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2014/15. July 2016
**Ashoka U
*Modules available subject to staffing and student numbers
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Course overview.
• Small group lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Workshops
• Independent and group study
• One-to-one supervisions
Entry criteria.• A typical offer is around BCC at A Level, DMM at BTEC
• We may also accept Foundation diplomas or equivalent
Teaching style
Learning and Teaching atWaterside.
Our Learning Hub, the heart of Waterside Campus
combines resources, staff and learning spaces that
would traditionally be separate.
You’ll study in small interactive group sessions,
enhanced by the latest developments in technology.
Waterside has been designed to give you a personalized
learning experience, excellent opportunities to develop
your academic experience and life skills.
• Film and Screen studies (Joint Honours)
• Multimedia Journalism
• Multimedia Sports Journalism
• Creative Film, TV and Digital Media Production
Courses we offer:
Joint Honours.
• Advertising
• Economics
• Popular Music
• Psychology
• Education Studies
• English
• Law
• Marketing Management
• Business Entrepreneurship
• Criminology
• History
• Human Geography
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• Creative Film, TV and Digital Media Production
• Sports Studies
• International Development
• International Tourism Management
• Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Multimedia Journalism
• Social Care
Courses that can be studied alongside Film and Screen studies.*
The course provides a broad understanding of the cultural significance, history, and theory of the screen media that surround us in contemporary society.
About the course.
• You will learn new ways of looking at media formats and platforms.
• You will investigate the new technologies and modes of engagement considered essential in today’s creative industries.
• You will develop a critical and creative understanding of how screen media influence our daily lives and shape peoples’ values and attitudes.
Course overview.
Special features.
• Use of broadcast recording equipment, studios and editing facilities
• Free mandatory UK site visits and trips
• One of the only degree programmesin the UK teaching students in a working independent cinema
• Tuition fee waiver for placement and study abroad modules
• Master classes with industry practitioners
Trips & excursions
Course structure: stage one.
Core Modules:• Film Analysis
• Studying Television
• Media and the Creative Industries
• You will look at the history and development of screen media, as well as how society and scholars have sought to understand the content, industry, and audiences of popular media.
Introduces the theory and practice of screen media, including film, television, video games, online and transmedia content.
Course structure: stage twoFocuses on specific areas of screen media including global cinema or TV drama, and develops your knowledge of how film and screen media operate in the field of popular culture and its various industrial contexts.
Core modules:
• Screen Storytelling
• Media Convergence
• Global Cinemas
• Scriptwriting
• Television Drama
• Researching the Media
Course structure: stage three.
Allows you to work more independently, pursuing specialised interests, analysingparticular genres, such as horror, or specific on a topic of your products and practices, as well as undertaking a written dissertation choice.
Optional modules:
Cult MediaGlobal TelevisionHollywood and BeyondFilm and Screen Studies Long Dissertation (40 credits)Film and Screen Studies Short Dissertation (20 credits)
Past topics chosen by students:
• Disney princesses
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Gender and video games
• Television documentaries
• Heroism and the Walking Dead
• Representations of Disability
• The politics of South Park
• YouTube users
Dissertation.
Recent graduates have secured jobs with:
• BBC
• Channel 4
• their own media production companies
As well as going on to work in:
• web design
• management
• publishing
• teaching
Careers.
Employability.
Skills you will acquire: • Communication
• Critical thinking
• Group work
• Interpersonal
• Organisation
• Creativity
We aim to equip our graduates to pursue careers in all areas of professional employment – not just screen media production or analysis.
Student success stories Lilles Whitby.
It’s great as I’m meeting the right people all the time with directors and producers coming and going for meetings through our office every day.
Paid Summer work experience, Midsomer Murders and Family tree.
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This led to work on Thor: The Dark World and Pan.
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Promoted to VFX assistant coordinator for a location shoot in Tenerife with Universal studios.
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Most recently working at Pinewood Studios on Jurrasic World: Fallen Kingdom.
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Our Academics.
Dr. Lorna Jowett
Reader in Television Studies.
Dr. Michael Starr
Programme Leader / Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies.
Dr. David Simmons
Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and English.
Our teaching team are research active and have a large range of publications.
Abigail Weber
Lecturer in Journalism and Film & Screen Studies / Professional Scriptwriter
In the past year Film & Screen Studies staff have presented papers at the Fan Studies Network conference, the Women’s Film and TV History conference, the American Popular Culture Association’s annual conference, and the Cine-Excess conference and festival.
• As the Cult Film Club we also host monthly screenings at the local cinema.
• Students are encouraged to get involved with programming and running these events.
• Screenings have included Akira, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Galaxy Quest.
Cult film club.
• Colette Foster, Joint Managing Director of Remarkable Television (Endemol),
• Michelle Lipton, writer for BBC Radio 4, Hat Trick Productions, and BBC One′s daytime soap Doctors.
• Paul Ashton, head of development at the BBC Writers’ Room, author of) The Calling Card Script: A Writer's Toolbox for Screen, Stage and Radio (2011).
• Critically acclaimed BAFTA winning Film and TV director, Kenny Glenaan, who works across independent film and high profile TV series.
• Jude Winstanley, freelance Channel 4 Production Manager and coordinator of The Unit List – a source for entry level jobs in the media industries.
• Nik Powell, former Chairman of the BAFTA film committee and former director of the National Film and TV School, and multi-award winning Film Producer (Company of Wolves, The Crying Game, Little Voice ).
• Director, writer and producer Jeremy Wooding (Bollywood Queen, Blood Moon )
• Award-winning cinematographer Robert Shacklady (feature films, drama, commercials, documentaries)
• Bob Skrzynski, stop motion animator (Shaun the Sheep, Postman Pat)
Visiting speakers.
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Personal Tutor.
• You will be allocated a personal tutor at the start of the year
• They are there to help you with every aspect of university life
• They’ll be in touch at various point in the academic year
• You can arrange to meet them at any time
Money Matters.
• A range of scholarships and bursaries to support you
• Financial Guidance Team on hand to help you with any money queries from student loans to financial hardship, and budgeting to loans
Accommodation.
• Halls of Residence on campus, in the town centre and BoughtonGreen Road
• Private Sector Officer to give advice and guidance if you’re looking to go into private sector accommodation
Health.
• Doctor’s surgery on campus
• Counselling and Mental Health Team
• Additional Needs and Disability Support (ASSIST)
• Residential Life Team are there to support and advise students living in halls
Support.
We are here for you.
