MA Creative Digital Film Production in Luton United Kingdom | University of Bedfordshire

This program equips you with specialized expertise to thrive in the rapidly changing world of digital film production. You'll delve into cross-media storytelling, screenwriting, production development, digital filmmaking, post-production techniques, and film theory. Every student collaborates with industry clients on real-world projects. The Creative Enterprises module helps launch your career by refining your portfolio and CV, connecting you with professionals, and exploring freelance and studio opportunities.

What You'll Learn
Our MA in Creative Digital Film Production provides professional-level filmmaking experience, preparing you for success in this dynamic field. The curriculum covers storytelling across media platforms, production planning, digital film techniques, editing workflows, and cinematic theory. Aspiring filmmakers deepen their craft through advanced theory and practical application, developing their creative voice in both fiction and nonfiction formats.

Career readiness is central to this program. The Creative Enterprises module includes live industry projects while examining employment prospects across film and television sectors.

Through Film Analysis, you'll develop sophisticated critical thinking skills, examining cinematic forms from historical to contemporary perspectives while understanding how films create meaning. The Fiction Film Production unit offers hands-on workshops where you'll master production fundamentals - from shot sequencing to continuity systems - while collaborating with cast and crew to bring concepts to life.

The Truth and Telling module challenges you to create factual films, exploring documentary and experimental storytelling while examining how cultural and technological factors shape cinematic meaning. Your final project lets you produce an original film (documentary, fiction, or hybrid) with accompanying critical analysis, or alternatively, complete a 12,000-word dissertation on a film-related topic of your choice.

Career Prospects
Ideal for those pursuing film production, programming, marketing, or administration roles, this course examines filmmaking within both commercial and cultural contexts globally and in the UK.

Graduates have entered the industry as editors, filmmakers, and crew members, while others have launched production companies. The degree also qualifies students for MPhil and PhD research programs.

Study Options
Full-time: 15 months
Part-time: Typically 30 months