All You Need To Know About Movie Production: BA (Hons) in Film & Television Production

Course Summary

Delivered by highly respected professionals, using industry-standard equipment, this four-year honors degree is practically based, designed specifically to prepare you for the workplace and to advance your skills to the highest level. The course is over 60% practical and allows students to specialize in areas such as TV Studio Production, Documentary Film Production, and Drama Production for Film and Television. It also includes an industry work placement in Year 3. Over 90% of our students are in work or further study after graduating

Course Description

This course aims to produce Film & Television Production professionals with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies to work within the Film and screen industries in Ireland and abroad. This program produces high-functioning generalists and remains at the forefront of new techniques and technologies.

This 4-year honors degree includes a work placement and allows students to specialize in areas such as TV Studio Production, Documentary Film Production, and Drama Production for Film and Television. Practical modules are complemented by a range of theory-driven modules – including Film Studies, Writing for Film and TV and Television Studies.; Students in the 3rd and 4th year of the course also have the opportunity to compete for the Annual John Moore Film Award.

Director John Moore began his relationship with the school in 2011, when Blaine Rennicks, a fourth-year film student won an internal competition for an internship on the set of A Good Day to Die Hard in Budapest. Access to film and television industry professionals is a core feature of the course & lecturers continually invite Industry Professionals to deliver master classes and guest lectures and evaluate project pitches from students.

Graduates of this course are recognized as being uniquely situated to work in the film and television industries in Ireland and abroad and have found work in companies such as Big Mountain Productions, One Productions, Vision Independent Productions, Click Media, Egg Post-Production, Setanta Sports and Tailored Films. 

Based in the state-of-the-art Carroll’s building on Campus, students undertaking this course have a unique opportunity to create ambitious and outstanding work. Previous work by students has been screened at a wide variety of film festivals both nationally and internationally.

Career Options

Graduates of this program will be equipped with the core competencies to engage in any of the following careers, amongst others:

• Director
• Assistant Director
• Camera Operator
• Editor (on/off-line)
• Focus-Puller
• Lighting Cameraman/Director of Photography
• Colorist
• Location Manager
• Producer
• Production Co-Ordinator
• Production Assistant
• Scriptwriter
• Sound Recordist/Mixer

Graduates thus far have gone on to work in the Film & Television industry in Ireland and abroad, in a range of roles such as:

• Facilities Manager, Promenade Post Production
• Production Manager, Big Mountain Productions
• Head of Audio Visual, One Productions
• Editor, Vision Independent Productions
• Online Video Producer, Click Media
• Digital Media Designer, BoyleSports
• Co-founder, Election Training Ireland
• Camera Operator, aerialfilming.ie
• Transmission Controller, Setanta Sports
• Editor, Tailored Films
• Production Co-Ordinator, Exposure Films Ltd.
• Freelance Assistant Editor/ Writer/Camera Operator

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For Inquiries & Applications

For detailed information and application, please, contact Donnish Hub Educational Limited at +234 817 973 0282 or email admission@donnishhub.com.ng. You can also download our brochure at www.donnishhub.com.ng