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Anglia Ruskin University

UCAS Code: P316 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Entry requirements

GCSE/National 4/National 5

3 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above, including English.

UCAS Tariff

96

We accept A Levels, T Levels, BTECs, OCR, Access to HE and most other qualifications within the UCAS Tariff. Must include an Art, Design or Media subject at A level or equivalent level.

About this course

Course option

4years

Sandwich | 2026

Subjects

Film production

Television production

**Turn a passion for filmmaking into a career by joining our acclaimed BA (Hons) Film and Television Production degree course at ARU.**

- Study on a course industry-recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based industries, with the ScreenSkills Select quality-mark for courses best suited to prepare you for a career in the screen industries.

- Develop your skills in script, cinematography, editing, producing, and directing, in studio and on location.

- Benefit from support from award-winning lecturers whose work has been screened on all the major UK television networks, as well as at multiple international film festivals.

- Join a course whose students' films have won awards in the regional and National Royal Television Society Student Awards over many years.

- Get hands-on in our specialist film facilities, with full training from our technical team.

- Take advantage of our links with local and national organisations, which will help you make contacts, find work placements, take part in "live briefs", and even give you the opportunity to show your films publicly at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

- Join our organised trips to Sheffield Documentary Festival, Camerimage in Poland and Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York.

Join the award-winning students on our BA (Hons) Film and Television Production degree and develop your skills in script, cinematography, editing, producing and directing in studio and on location. If you don't want to just watch film and television, but make it, this is the course for you.

As a production course, this is all about the filmmaking. Your modules will be around 80% practice-based to 20% context and research.

Over the three years you'll gain key skills, from ideas development and scripting to pre-production planning and shooting, through to post-production skills in editing and colour grading. You can choose to keep a broad skillset or start to specialise in particular craft areas like producing, camera or editing.

You'll shoot on digital formats from HD to 4K and analogue 16mm film. By the final year, you and your crew will be working with feature film industry level equipment like our new Arri Alexa Mini cameras.

You'll learn from highly experienced filmmakers, television producers and technical officers in our specialist facilities. With an emphasis on collaborations, you'll have opportunities to work with students from all the year groups as well as your lecturers on this small, focused and friendly course.

Whether your career aspirations are to crew on high-end TV drama or film, work in post-production, set up your own company as a videographer, create stunning cinematography or innovative online content, reinvent what television is, or use film to make change in the world, the skills you learn on this course will set you up to start that journey.

As a BA (Hons) Film and Television Production student at ARU, you'll be supported by award-winning, lecturers whose work has been screened on all the major UK television networks, as well as at multiple international film festivals. They have won Emmys, HUGOs and BAFTAs and continue to make films and programmes.

You'll produce a range of programmes and films that may be as prize and film festival-worthy as our other recent student work.

Our students’ films have been very successful in the regional Royal Television Society Student Awards. In 2024, the film Eternity’s Grace won both the Drama and Camerawork categories, while Therapy won first place in the Entertainment and Comedy Drama category in 2023. In 2021, Lidia Bieniarz won the Best Short Form Film category as well as the top prize – The Sir Lenny Henry Award, while Agata Kazmierczak won best editing.

You’ll also have the chance to join our organised trips and take part in live briefs with partner organisations.

Modules

Year 1 Core modules: Screen Skills; Film Language; Film Drama: Production and Practices; Screen Skills Intermediate; Television Production and Practice. Year 2 Core modules: Documentary Making; Advanced Screen Skills 1; Fiction Filmmaking; Advanced Screen Skills 2; Ruskin Module.Year 2 Optional modules: Independent Cinema: US and Beyond; Filmmakers on Film; Theorising Spectatorship. Year 3: Placement. Year 4 Core modules: Film and Television Production Major Project; Graduation Films.Year 4 Optional modules: Commissions and Collaborations; Working in the Creative Industries. Modules are subject to change and availability.

Assessment methods

You will be given verbal and written feedback at key stages of each module, for example, on project proposals, scripts, works in progress. You’ll be assessed via assessment on group projects; contribution and engagement; presentations; reports; written critical reflections and contextual analysis; essays – written and visual; scripts, proposals and written pitches; portfolios, including final programs and films; individual research workbooks or research files and material; production documentation; marketing materials; and showreels.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,535
per year
England
£9,535
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,535
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,535
per year
Scotland
£9,535
per year
Wales
£9,535
per year

The Uni

Course location:

Cambridge Campus

Department:

Cambridge School of Creative Industries

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What students say

How do students rate their degree experience?

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Teaching and learning

72%
Staff make the subject interesting
79%
Staff are good at explaining things
69%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
72%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

75%
Library resources
74%
IT resources
76%
Course specific equipment and facilities
48%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

77%
UK students
23%
International students
65%
Male students
35%
Female students
76%
2:1 or above
6%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

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B

After graduation

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Average annual salary
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Employed or in further education
55%
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Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

23%
Artistic, literary and media occupations
19%
Other elementary services occupations
13%
Other administrative occupations

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