Course Overview

This course allows you to combine practice and critical and creative work. You will acquire advanced knowledge and skills in digital production, screenwriting, and directing and develop your understanding of film, moving images and broader film culture. You will analyze and reflect on film and documentary. Practice-based learning framed by the study of film concepts and current industrial practices will encourage you to become creative and critical practitioners with highly developed audio-visual literacy – valuable employability skills for the media and creative industries sector.

If you’ve always wanted to turn that film that’s in your head into a reality or develop a deeper understanding of how films tell our stories, then this is the degree for you. This exciting course will provide you with all the tools and knowledge that you will need to make a profession of your passion and forge a career in film.

Our Film degree will provide a theoretical grounding and historical understanding of visual culture, as well as equip you with a broad range of production skills within different areas of the media, including documentary filmmaking, screenwriting, and short film production.

This course will also equip you with a solid grounding in the technical and practical skills required to make you a sought-after professional in these fields.

Lecturers who teach the Film Studies degree have a range of interests including American Cinema, British and European film, gender, the body and film, film and history, digital technology and film, screenwriting, film-making, media and film in Wales, acting and performing, language and film, blogging and podcasting, computer games and film, film stars and film on television. Many members of staff in the School are practicing professionals and consultants.

The school is also home to a dynamic and vibrant community of professionals and students who want to make and study films. Nestled in a breathtaking location between the Snowdonia National Park and the Irish Sea, Bangor’s location has brought HBO, Netflix, the BBC, S4C and a host of major film companies to shoot here. Recent productions include Watchmen at Penrhyn Castle or The Crown at Caernarfon Castle.

General Eligibility

We accept students with a wide range of qualifications and backgrounds and consider each application individually.

All students need to have good basic skills and the University also values IT and communication skills.

As part of the University’s policy, we consider applications from prospective disabled students on the same grounds as all other students.

UCAS Code - W610

Part Time Work Details

The 20 hours is total hours. It is not per job. If you hold multiple part-time jobs then the total hours of all the work you are doing added together.

Language Requirement

• Bangor University also recognizes Non-SELT Tests and Online Tests as mentioned below for direct entry to its degree programs.  

  Also, scores lower than the IELTS 6.0 equivalent in any of these non-SELT and Online tests.