A levels, ABB
Access to Higher Education Diploma, 30 credits at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher
BTEC National Extended Diploma, DDM
Cambridge Pre-U, D3, M2, M2
European Baccalaureate, 75% overall
International Baccalaureate, 34 points
If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:
IELTS (Academic and Indicator), 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component
C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, 176, with a minimum of 169 in each component
Duolingo, 110 overall, with a minimum of 100 in each component
GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language), Grade C
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT, B2 Communicator High Pass with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component
PTE Academic, 61, with a minimum of 55 in each component
TOEFL, 87 overall, with a minimum of 21 in each component
Trinity ISE III, Merit in all components
Develop the leadership and entrepreneurial skills to manage and inspire the UK's creative industries. Combine advanced business knowledge with practical production and insight into film, television, theatre and interactive media.
The creative industries are a major UK success story. Together film, television, theatre, games and music contribute £110 billion to the national economy every year. These industries are always on the look-out for talented graduates with business skills to continue the UK's growth as it develops new international partnerships and enters new creative markets across the globe.
Drawing on our expertise and our extensive industry contacts, with teaching that intersects with production-oriented activities, you'll develop the experience required to successfully initiate, drive and manage creative projects and businesses in this exciting area. You can explore your own creative potential - on screen, stage, or in interactive media - while acquiring the knowledge of leadership, marketing, finance and the law that is in high demand in creative sectors across the UK and the world.
You'll graduate with the expertise to become a creative business leader ready to work with talented actors, writers, directors and designers. Your possible career paths may include becoming a producer, TV or film commissioner, or event programmer, or working in advertising or marketing and distribution within the creative industries.
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Year 1
Your first year will give you a detailed overview of how the creative industries are structured from organisational, financial and policy aspects, together with some introductory insights into the creative objectives and practices of our key industrial focuses: film and TV, the stage, and the worlds of games and interactive media.
Core modules
You will take core modules, which may include:
Business for Screen
Content Development
Story
Creative Materials
Introduction to Screen Production Methods
Business for Performance
Year 2
You'll work on advanced business skills relating to the creative industries: the projection of creative leadership, the management of creativity, the financing of innovative creative work, the policy and industrial contexts in which creativity develops and finds its opportunities, the workflows and technologies that allow creative work to achieve its ambitions.
You'll take option modules that allow you to explore your own commercial, cultural and creative enthusiasms. You'll be able to take option modules from our Department of Music also.
Core modules
You will take core modules, which may include:
Creative Business Leadership
Creative Business Methods: Finance, Planning and the Law
Creative Business Strategies
Option modules
You will take a selection of option modules, which may include:
Theatre Texts and Contexts
Filmmaking
Political Theatres
Current Issues in Film & Television
Current Trends in Theatre: New Writing, New Practices, New Contexts
Theatre Design and Production
The Discipline of Genre
Interactive Media and Society
Studio Production
Programming for Digital Media
Gaming: Industry and Culture
Global Producing Contexts
Creative Producing
Options from the Department of Music
Year 3
You'll study a number of core modules and will explore brands, marketing and contemporary convergent promotion and development strategies. You'll take part in a group project which will develop your collaboration skills, essential for the creative industries. This project can be taken with other creative business, film and television or theatre students and you'll be able to apply your entrepreneurial and creative expertise to the work.
You’ll specialise with an option module and take an individual project. You can tailor this project to your own interests, such as writing a business portfolio, developing a screen, stage or interactive project or completing a dissertation. There will be essential sessions on how to design and develop your research, and you'll have one to one supervision with an academic or industry specialist throughout your project. You'll be able to choose from option modules offered by our Department of Music also.
Core modules
You will take core modules, which may include:
Brands and Marketing
Research Skills for Creative Industries
Individual Research Project
Group Project
Option modules
You will take a selection of option modules, which may include:
Directing for Theatre, Film and Television
Esports Content Production
Theatre Design and Production
Theatre Texts and Contexts
Current Issues in Film & Television
TV Research Skills
The Future of Story: Storytelling in the Digital Age
Interactive Media and Society
Advanced Budgets and Schedules (with Movie Magic)
Creative Producing
Global Producing Contexts
Options from the Department of Music
The majority of our graduates move into staff or freelance roles in the film, television, video and interactive media industries. Likely roles include:
Producer in film, theatre, television or video games
Film or TV commissioner, scheduler, event programmer
Executive in leading creative institutions and media companies
Marketing, distribution
Advertising
Creative business leader
Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year
