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MA Post Production Editing

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

  • Mirror industry practice and learn real-world skills while working in dedicated edit suites with extensive network support and access to cutting-edge technology.  

  • Learn from a range of guest speakers and academic staff who have a wealth of experience working on a wide range of major broadcasters and independent films across a range of genres  

  • Benefit from our alums mentoring scheme, where you can receive advice and guidance from an ex-student who is currently working in the industry  

  • Graduate with a product portfolio, develop your ideas beyond industry expectations, and produce evidence of your editorial approach, which will be your calling card to the industry  

  • Our Learning Partnership with AVID ensures graduates carry even greater relevance and credibility when finding employment, including the option of gaining AVID Certified User status.  

  • Take advantage of opportunities with RedBalloon, an award-winning professional production unit based in the Faculty of Media and Communication. 

General Eligibility

The standard requirements for embarking upon a postgraduate taught degree are:

  • A bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 or equivalent in any subject or equivalent

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week

What You'll Study

1 Core Units
  • Editing Practice & Debate: Investigate the history, theory, technology, and practice of editing in this series of lectures, workshops, and collaborative production. You will learn how to work effectively as a creative collaborator with students from other production disciplines and master the technological frameworks and expectations of the role. This leads to you developing your first portfolio of edits and your ability to analyze them in the context of the broader editing world. 

  • Storytelling: This unit aims to examine storytelling concepts across audio-visual formats, cultures, and production industries. You'll engage with practice research methodologies to critically engage with a diverse range of narrative forms and approaches. 

  • Editing Experiment & Enquiry: Learn how to analyze editing like a professional and develop your approaches to and theories of editing. Through lectures, discussions, workshops, exercises, and collaborative production work, you will research, experiment, explore, challenge, and extend the language of montage and your voice as an editor.

  • Approaches to Industry: An introduction to critical skills and knowledge you'll need for employment in the media industries. An opportunity to develop your ambitions and strategies for entering the creative industries wherever you choose.

  • Media Production Masters Project: This unit allows you to utilize the editing skills, knowledge, and professional competence you've gained in this course to work individually or in collaboration with a production team of other students to develop a portfolio and analysis of your editing work, or a separately or collaboratively written thesis. 

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (Academic) 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in writing, speaking, listening, and reading, or equivalent.

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