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MA Film Making is ideal for you if you want to return to university, possibly with a first
degree or with experience of some kind of film making behind you or if you're moving
from an undergraduate course, and that can be a wider course than one would normally
expect, we have film makers who come from all sorts of disciplines, from media and photography
and film to law, science... you name it, we have students who are included in all fields.
All of our MA film makers have access to the base room which is where most of the auditions,
workshops and classes take place. And they're a tight unit and they use the space to work in,
rehearse in, film in; it's almost a living space for them. They also use a lot of the
mac labs upstairs. Some people edit in-house, some people don't. They have access
to the loans room which has a variety of equipment in it from very, very basic kit
which is shared with some of the BA up to 4 kit cameras. New equipment is coming
in at the moment all the time.
All the modules on the MA course are core, you have to do everything with us in order
to pass muster as a film maker, because what we're making here are people who are individual
film making units, everybody should come out and be able to do everything to a degree.
So we work on fiction films, we work on documentaries, we touch on experimental work. Over the summer
the students in their dissertations will make usually their own film if they don't opt to
work several roles on other people's films. So all methods are employed and we touch on
virtually all kinds of film making. The key is that they have to master the short form
before they think about doing anything else, going on to PhDs or going onto longer works.
We tailor our MA to fit into two days a week for a full-time student. A part-time student
would usually come one day a week. We do run other classes on occasions on a Wednesday,
for instance, or another day of the week, which are additional workshops, but that is
only taught time. And those two full-time days or one part-time day is a very intense
day; you'll do two classes, there'll be one technical class, there'll be one theory or
film making class, and they are full-on days so they're quite hard work. But that's before
you make any films, that's classroom time. To make films you'll be making them outside
of that time and the truth is you could be doing that three other days a week, you could
be doing that at the weekends - it depends on the group of students you work with and
the flexibility that's allowed amongst you. So it's very difficult to say entirely how
much time you will spend making your films. The truth is, the more time you spend, the
better film you'll make.
Our MA is designed for people who want proper hands-on practice, who are independently thinking
film makers and who want to experience a wonderful multicultural environment in London and soak
up the best of both worlds, what we have to offer as a place and what we have to offer
as a course. If you come to Kingston you will leave equipped to make film for the rest of
your life.
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