Film, Photography and Media

Film, photography, and media each have their own histories, conventions, and technical vocabularies, but in contemporary creative practice they increasingly work together, and understanding the connections between them is as important as mastering each individually. This degree takes that convergence seriously, preparing you to work across moving image, still photography, and digital content production while giving you the critical framework to think about why visual media matter and how they make meaning.

At the University of Leeds you will blend creative and technical skills across three years of full-time study, exploring filmmaking, photographic practice, and media production alongside the theoretical and historical contexts that shape them. You will examine how images work aesthetically, how media industries are structured, and how digital technologies have transformed the production and distribution of visual content. Theory and practice inform each other throughout the programme, so that your critical thinking deepens your creative work and your practical experience gives your analysis concrete grounding.

The programme includes a sandwich year, giving you the chance to spend a period in professional placement and gain direct industry experience, and there is also a year abroad option that broadens your international perspective. Work placement opportunities are built into the structure, strengthening your readiness for graduate employment in the creative industries.

You will develop skills in storytelling through multiple media, learning to make decisions about form, composition, editing, and platform with intention and craft. Collaboration is central to much of the work, reflecting how the media industries actually operate, and you will learn to contribute to creative teams as well as to develop independent projects.

Graduates from this programme go on to work in film production, television, digital content creation, photojournalism, advertising, brand communications, and cultural institutions. Some pursue postgraduate study in film, media, or practice-based research. The creative and analytical combination the degree provides is valued across the full range of the creative economy.