Course General Description

Practical experience in directing, camerawork, sound and editing is gained in order to explore how every aspect of film can be a means of creative expression. The course's team strives to work as a film community across years and encourage cross-fertilisation between different technologies and conventions. You will learn the creativity necessary to enter the film and television industries with a freshness of approach both to changing technologies and the cinematic ideas that they embrace. You will benefit from workshops and masterclasses from internal and visiting staff, who all work and exhibit internationally in film and television, and from sessions provided by Edinburgh College of Art's (ECA) Scottish Documentary Institute. The students of this course graduate primarily as directors, having made several films during their time at ECA, but we also encourage all to have a secondary practical skill to help gain work in the industry.

School General Description

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and ranked 18th in the QS World University Rankings 2019. Its entrepreneurial and cross-disciplinary culture attracts not only students, but also staff from some 137 countries, which creates a unique Edinburgh experience. We provide a stimulating working, learning and teaching environment with access to excellent facilities and attract the world's best, from Nobel Prize winning laureates to future explorers, pioneers and inventors. They offer a range of ways to study, from on-campus taught programmes to online part-time study. The university is the largest provider of online distance learning in the Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities, and offer more than 60 online programmes.