Creative Film, Television and Digital Media Production

Creative film, television and digital media production is a discipline that trains you to make content as well as understand it, combining the craft skills of production with a critical awareness of how moving image media functions in contemporary culture. Filmmaking, television production and digital content creation have converged in significant ways in recent years, with the same stories and ideas now distributed across cinema, broadcast television, streaming platforms, social media and online video. A degree in this area prepares you to work fluently across those formats, understanding both the creative possibilities and the technical requirements of each.

At the University of Northampton, you will study this programme over three years full time. The programme develops practical skills in screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, sound design and post-production alongside critical studies in film and television history, theory and contemporary media culture. You will work on production projects at increasing levels of ambition and autonomy as the programme progresses, building a portfolio of work that demonstrates your abilities across different formats and genres.

The typical entry tariff for this programme is around 104 UCAS points.

Northampton's production facilities give you access to the equipment and environments needed to develop professional-level practical skills. The programme's approach to creative production encourages you to develop your own voice and aesthetic sensibility rather than simply replicating existing models, while the critical studies component gives you the analytical framework to understand how media industries operate and how screen texts work on their audiences.

Graduates of film, television and digital media production programmes move into a wide range of roles across the screen and digital media industries. Production roles including directing, editing, producing, camera operating and sound recording are direct applications of the practical skills developed during the degree. Others move into content creation for brands and organisations, digital marketing, broadcast journalism, post-production, visual effects or games production.

Many graduates work as freelancers, building varied portfolio careers across multiple formats and clients. Postgraduate study in filmmaking, screenwriting, documentary or screen industries is an option for those who want to develop a specialism.