This degree offers you the opportunity to study in a Department that has a thriving and internationally recognised research culture, which includes creative practice in Writing and Film. The combination of these two subjects offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of film and enable you to develop your creative and professional writing skills.
Film Studies offers an excellent balance of theory and practice, allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to a range of films and to apply those creatively to a range of practical projects. You will benefit from access to industry standard facilities, including TV studios, multimedia studios plus digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites. The Writing programme at Anglia Ruskin has strong links to regional networks for poetry, dramatic writing, screenwriting, fiction, music and performance. Teaching is carried out by published writers and critics, and by practitioners from writing-intensive careers such as journalism and playwriting.
The course provides opportunities to present your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.
Students take half their degree from Writing and half from Film Studies.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Introduction to Imaginative Writing (compulsory)
Language and Criticism for Writers (compulsory)
Writing to Entertain, Inform and Persuade
Film Reviewing
Introduction to Film and Cinema (compulsory)
Visualization, Research and Storyboarding
Introduction to Video
Film and Genre
History of Cinema
Year two modules:
Writing Short Fiction (compulsory)
Writing for the Web
Screenwriting: The Short Film
Screenwriting: Script to Screen
Creative Writing
Writing at Work
News and Feature Writing
Writing Drama
Theorizing the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema (compulsory)
Film, Identity and Globalization
Independent Cinema: US and Beyond
Documentary Film Theory
Video Documentary
16mm Filmmaking
Animation
Introduction to European Cinema
European Cinema and Identity
Year three modules:
Major Project in Writing or Film Studies (compulsory)
Portfolio
Writing Poetry
Writing for Radio
Creative and Professional Non-Fiction
Screenwriting: Adaptation
Film Journalism
Film Art
Avant-Garde Film and Experimental Video
Film, Modernity and Post-modernity
Multiplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema
Creative Practice in Film & Video 1 & 2
Working in Film
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200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level English or English Language or English - Language & Literature at grade C Non-Academic Conditions: Samples of written work required GCSE(s) Preferred: English, grade C For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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