Film & Broadcast Production
Film and broadcast production is the practical discipline of creating screen content for cinema, television, and digital platforms, and the industry it prepares you for encompasses everything from feature films and broadcast news to documentary series, corporate video, and digital content for online audiences. The craft requires technical fluency with the tools of production, including cameras, editing software, sound recording, and post-production workflows, alongside the creative and critical understanding of storytelling, visual language, and audience that separates competent technical work from compelling screen content.
At Edge Hill University, the BA (Hons) Film and Broadcast Production is offered on a part-time basis, making it accessible to students who are building their practice and professional lives alongside their studies. The programme is built around live briefs, practical projects, and research across a range of film and broadcast platforms, giving you experience of the kind of real-world contexts you will work in as a professional. It includes a sandwich year, a year abroad option, and a work placement, providing structured opportunities to develop professional experience, international perspectives, and the portfolio that employers and clients in the screen industries are looking for.
Edge Hill's close proximity to Liverpool and Manchester, two of the UK's most active production centres, gives the degree an excellent geographic context.
Graduates in film and broadcast production work across a wide range of organisations and roles. Television production companies, film studios, post-production houses, digital content agencies, broadcasters, and the growing online content sector all employ people with this background. Roles in directing, producing, editing, cinematography, sound, and production management are all accessible, and many graduates develop portfolio careers that combine several of these roles across different types of production.
The skills the degree builds also transfer into journalism, corporate communications, and digital marketing. Postgraduate study in film or broadcast production is an option for those who want to specialise further.