BA Digital Film and Television
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The BA Digital Film and Television programme combines theoretic and practical classes to develop students’ creative skills and to offer a grounding in the film and TV industries based upon industry contact and specialist delivery.
Students explore the visual, dramatic, and technical challenges film makers face by way of writing, producing, directing, and editing films. The collaborative nature of the film-making process is taught in lectures and through practical crew experience and working with other creative students within the Academy.
The students work in a professional capacity on fiction/factual short form production for the traditional and new media screen platforms and are mentored by industry practitioners who also deliver workshops in areas such as cinematography, direction and production management.
The Digital Film Television programme offers students the opportunity to gain an understanding of all the creative and technical aspects of content creation reaching over a diverse number of platforms and broadcast formats including film and television, advertising, mobile technology and the web.
Students work in a professional capacity on fiction and factual short-form production and are mentored by industry practitioners who also deliver workshops in areas such as cinematography, direction and production management. Students receive extensive, expert tuition from a range of award-winning industry professionals all of whom are focused on realising potential.
Students have access to actors, musicians, production designers and performance directors and performance directors; they also have that collaborative experience built into the heart of their course and their thinking.
The programme aims to produce innovative graduates equipped to produce content for existing and, most importantly, emerging and future platforms.
The success of recent short films (see below) has established the DFTV programme as the dynamic, creative deliverer of undergraduate film and broadcast training in Scotland
The Immeasurable Joy of Healthy Living, Winner Best Screenplay, BAFTA Scotland 2005
Hikikomori, Winner Best New Work, BAFTA Scotland 2006, Nominated for Best Short Film at the British Academy Film Awards 2007
Bathtime, Runner up, BBC Three New Film Makers Award 2007
Adam McIlwaine
Head of Production Technology
