Film and Television Production

Film and television production is the craft and discipline of making moving image content, from the initial idea through scripting, shooting, editing, and finishing to the final product seen by an audience. It requires both technical competence, across camera, sound, lighting, editing, and production management, and creative vision, in storytelling, direction, and the ability to bring a concept to life on screen. The field encompasses drama, documentary, factual programming, animation, and digital content, and it sits within a media landscape that continues to change rapidly as platforms multiply and audience habits shift.

At the University of York, this three-year full-time programme combines practical creative and technical work with engaged theoretical study, ensuring you understand not just how to make films and television programmes but what screen storytelling can do and how it relates to history and theory. You will build skills in storytelling, learn to use professional production tools, and engage with screen theory and history as you progress through the degree. You will create your own dramas, documentaries, and studio productions, taking ideas from script to screen and developing a professional portfolio in the process.

The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, providing exceptional professional and international experience before you graduate.

York's combination of creative ambition and theoretical depth is what distinguishes the programme, and the breadth of structural opportunities in the degree means you leave with real professional experience as well as a strong academic foundation.

Graduates from film and television production programmes go on to careers in broadcasting, independent production, documentary filmmaking, digital content, post-production, and the wider creative industries. The degree also provides a strong foundation for postgraduate study in film, television, or screen media.