Film BA Honours

With access to professional facilities and strong links to London's film industry, develop your creative identity as a filmmaker on this highly respected course

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How to apply
Code
P303
Attendance
Full-time, Part-time
Start
September 2025
Fees
£9,250 (UK) | £16,600 (INT)
Duration
3 years full-time, 6 years part-time
Course Leader
Vesna Lukic
Study mode
On campus
Location
Hendon campus
Entry Requirements
112-128 UCAS points
Placement year
Optional
School / Department
School of Film
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Course overview

Why choose Film BA Honours at Middlesex?

If you want to work in the exciting world of film, you will need strong practical skills and solid theoretical knowledge. This highly respected course delivers both evidenced by the success of many of our graduates who have gone on to work on Star Wars productions, for Disney and the BBC, while some have set up their own companies or continued their studies at the National Film and Television School.

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What you will learn

You’ll have our state-of-the-art facilities at your fingertips to help develop your own creative identity and produce your best possible work. These include a TV production studio designed by Sony, post-production suites for editing, colour grading and sound editing, a sound dubbing studio for mixing Dolby Atmos, studios for recording ADR and foley, and a motion capture and greenscreen virtual studio. You'll also have access to our equipment loan store, The Kit Hub, where you can borrow a vast range of cameras, lighting and sound kit.

As we head up the UK-wide Creative Campus Network, you'll benefit from information and opportunities from our industry contacts. We're also partnered with Film London, ScreenSkills and the GLA Creative Academy to provide you with free access to additional industry-recognised resources and training.

Our partnerships with Canon, Avid, Blackmagic Design and others mean that you'll benefit from top equipment and development opportunities to help you with your future career. We've built strong partnerships with local film studios, allowing you to access work placement opportunities. Several of our students have worked at the London North Studios, as runners/marshals or set builders with Brandon B whose video work is seen by millions around the world.

By joining us on this course, you'll have a chance to:

  • Benefit from new industry-recognised assessment strategies that we're developing
  • Prepare for working life through our employability-focused modules across all three years
  • Learn to produce award-winning productions that are distributed across many short film festivals and industry events.

3 great reasons to pick this course

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Excellent London location

Our location in London gives us access to studios and links with the industry

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State-of-the-art facilities

As a student, you will have access to our fully-equipped Studio and Kit Hub

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Part-time study

Study at your own pace alongside work and other commitments and get the skills and knowledge you need to progress in your career.

When choosing a part-time course, you will study the same modules as the full-time course but over a longer period.

Find out more about the many benefits of studying part-time at Middlesex University.

About your course

About your course

Across the three years, you’ll learn about the complete film-making process by making films and cover a range of production roles, post-production, scriptwriting, cinematography, and direction, informed and/or co-designed by professionals working in the film industry.

This year provides a basic grounding in the technical, narrative, and theoretical skills involved in becoming a filmmaker. It also introduces you to some of the different kinds of filmmaking, including some that they may not previously have considered.

This module encourages you to apply and combine a spectrum of production skills, creative image-making techniques, and to explore individual and experimental processes. You will be able to effectively respond to set briefs through practice-based and problem-based learning and develop creative decision-making for a range of creative outputs in various contexts. Additionally, you will be empowered to cultivate resourcefulness and enhance organisational, research, and reflection skills. 

This module develops your knowledge and understanding of documentary production. It delves into the diverse forms of documentary and how different modes of address engage an audience. It also prompts critical examination of practical, ethical, and philosophical dilemmas inherent in documentary representation, particularly the responsibilities of creative practitioners in real-world scenarios. The module will emphasise the importance of narrative and its relationship to aesthetics in documentary practice, providing you with the tools to craft compelling work. The module inspires socially conscious practice, nurturing you as conscientious and passionate creators. 

This module introduces you to professional working environments and technical facilities, to build a foundational base for your creative practice. Through a structured sequence of practical workshops, you will acquire a diverse range of technical skills and practices to make you into a conscientious creator. The module will empower you to explore a variety of professional production roles and techniques, whilst developing fundamental graduate competencies. By focusing on practical exercises, you will develop understanding of creative processes, enabling them to respond effectively to production challenges and work within set deadlines and guidelines. This module will prepare you for successful integration into the professional world of creative production.

This module introduces you to the principles of aesthetic and narrative analysis to promote an audio/visual literacy. This will develop understanding of the different ways in which media are created and circulated. You will become familiar with different historical, cultural, global and technological contexts in which audio/visual media develop, and some of the key critical debates which frame them. You will learn how to analyse existing media in terms of specific aesthetic techniques, and how to carry out academic research successfully. The goal of this module is to inspire you to apply these critical insights to the development of your own creative practice.

This year culminates with you working collaboratively on an 8–10-minute drama or documentary film and focusses on the skills that will enable you to do this to a high standard. It also explores wider ideas of film in context, and the discipline of working to a brief. 

This module will guide you towards the proficient execution of live, client-centred, industry and community-facing briefs, emphasising the development, planning, and execution phases of a project output. It will equip you with the skills necessary to effectively work to a set brief, which will demonstrate your competency to potential employers. By engaging in client briefs and studio live productions, you can enhance your abilities to realise a client’s vision, in addition to navigating studio environments, while also diversifying your technical skills set. Additionally, the module underscores the importance of professional conduct, effective communication, and adept time management practices, to cultivate a well-rounded skill set tailored to the demands of real-world production scenarios and engagement in professional practice. 

This module fosters critical enquiry into the specific philosophical issues around filmmaking practice. It will motivate you to engage with current political, social, cultural, and ideological realities through your filmmaking work, and awakens the excitement of exchanging ideas through film language. It will create an environment where questions of representation and ethical production practices can be debated and discussed. Screen media will be considered as a tool to investigate and intervene in the world, and we will empower you to consider the capacity of film to challenge received attitudes and embedded assumptions. The module therefore positions screen practice as a mode of critical thinking. 

This module will teach you to apply the basic principles of narrative in both fictional and factual cinema to the creation of a short script or documentary proposal. It follows on from prior learning and skills acquisition at Level 4 and teaches how to apply these skills to the telling of a story. 

This module will equip you with the ability to creatively interpret briefs and produce high-quality filmmaking. It will help you develop in exploring the aesthetic potential of moving image work through the application of production and craft skills. By collaborating on projects, you will enhance your skills through specialist roles, tackle technical challenges, and deepen your understanding of film production. The module embeds the importance of effective teamwork and professionalism, developing understanding of pre-production, production, and post-production workflows. The module enables you to situate your practice within the broader context of moving image production and equips them with the skills necessary to excel in their chosen fields. 

This year focuses on your own final project, which may be a film, a screenplay or a self-directed project of another kind. It also covers the realities of working within the screen industries, and the skills that will be required of the students once they leave university.

This module will you with the critical understanding of the production cultures and working practices, and the industry organisation of the screen industries to prepare you for employment. It will also provide you with activities with a particular emphasis on the collaborative nature inherent in studio shoots. Through hands-on experience and participation in studio shoot activities, you will gain practical insights into teamwork, communication, and problem-solving within a professional production environment.

This module will provide a crucial step in your learning journey by fostering the high-level critical and practical skills necessary for navigating the diverse landscape of screen production processes. It aims to encourage creative, ambitious, and innovative approaches to creating screen media. By providing an environment that mirrors current industry processes and conditions, the module will help you gain practical insights into bringing major projects to realisation. Additionally, the module empowers you to develop and execute major projects with a clear understanding of the project’s purpose, intended audience, and contextual relevance. It also equips you with the skills and confidence to present your work effectively and professionally to others, both in its developmental stages and as a completed project, which will enhancing your readiness for professional engagement in the field. 

This module facilitates high-level critical and practical skills to explore film/tv/screen media in creative, ambitious, and innovative ways. It provides an environment that reflects current industry processes and conditions to enable authentic experiences when bringing a major project to realisation. Throughout the module, you will have the opportunity to develop your own major project, honing your ability to define clear objectives, identify target audiences, and understand the broader contextual implications of their work. Additionally, this module will foster your confidence and proficiency in effectively pitching your projects to others, preparing you for successful engagement within the professional domain. 

This module will excite you about the prospect of finding useful and fulfilling work in the screen industries. It also focuses on developing essential graduate skills necessary for employment. It will cultivate self-reflection, developing a personal brand and practical skills relevant to preparing students for employment or establishing a production-related business. It will also assist you in refining your skills for contributing to a major project, along with finalising your self-promoting and industry-engaging strategies, ensuring you are well-equipped to navigate the job market. Emphasising the importance of a realistic career plan post-university, the module will empower you to pursue your career goals with confidence and clarity. By providing opportunities for you to reflect on your skills and contributions, you will gain the ability to effectively communicate your value in professional settings. 

To find out more about this course, please download the BA Film course specification (PDF).

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Teaching and learning

Teaching

The course is taught through group and individual projects, group learning and workshops, specialist technical sessions, one-to-one tutorials, annotated screenings, and industry talks and visits. Teaching is supported by the specialist teaching and technical staff, as well as student learning assistants. The teaching and technical teams have a wide variety of specialisms and interests, so that you can find an appropriate mentor and guide within the team. Students are taught in clusters of 20-25, in both general teaching spaces and in our specialist spaces, including editing suites, digital media workshops, and filming studios.

During your first year, your weekly timetable will typically consist of:

  • 4 hours of annotated screening/discussion
  • 2 hours of seminars
  • 6 hours of practical workshops
  • 8 hours of fieldwork (production meetings, film shoots, postproduction activities).

Outside of teaching hours, you’ll learn independently through self-study which will involve reading articles and books, working on projects, undertaking research, and preparing for assessments including coursework, presentations and exams.

Your independent learning is supported by the library and study hub, laptop hire, and with online materials in MyUniHub.



Whether you are studying full or part-time – your course timetable will balance your study commitments on campus with time for work, life commitments and independent study.

We aim to make timetables available to students at least 2 weeks before the start of term. Some weeks are different due to how we schedule classes and arrange on-campus sessions.

Our excellent teaching and support teams will help you develop your skills from research and practical skills to critical thinking. Our Sheppard Library is open 24 hours a day during term time. And we offer free 24-hour laptop loans with full desktop software, free printing and Wi-Fi to use on or off campus.

Your learning will be assessed regularly and is made up of 100% coursework.

Assessments will include the film-making projects themselves, as well as the paperwork and production material associated with good professional practice. There will also be written work and group presentations, to demonstrate the reflection and self-awareness behind the work.  Assessments have been created to reflect good practice and skills required within the screen industries. 

Each individual module will have a maximum of two assessments within it, and these will be completed by the end of the semester. Feedback may be given either in written form online, or orally in tutorials, as appropriate to the assessment. 

To help you achieve the best results, we will provide regular feedback.

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Facilities and support

Facilities

The facilities, studios and workshops at our £80 million purpose-built Grove building on campus in North London are recognised as among the best in the country. With a wide range of digital media, equipment, software and library facilities on-site, you'll benefit from unique levels of access to both the latest forms of technology and traditional tools with expert support to help you develop your work.

Our production facilities:

  • Post-production suites for editing, colour grading and sound editing including hardware by Avid, Tangent and Blackmagic
  • Audio dubbing studio for mixing Dolby Atmos with Avid S6 Console & 7.4.1 JBL Cinema Speaker System
  • Motion capture & greenscreen virtual production studio.

Studio and location filming equipment:

  • Over 50 high-end 4K cinema cameras
  • Over 100 Canon & Sony DSLRs mirrorless kits with prime and zoom lenses
  • Arri, Kinoflo and Aputure lighting kits
  • Camera stabilisation systems including dolly tracks, motorised and manual sliders, GlideCam, mini jib arm and studio jib crane arm, EasyRig, gimbals
  • Atomos monitors and external recorders
  • Wireless video systems and wireless follow focus
  • Wireless timecode systems with digital slates
  • Sound Devices and Zoom sound recorders
  • Sennheiser shotgun, stereo and ambisonic microphones
  • Specialised location microphones including hydrophones, binaural, contact and boundary microphones
  • Sennheiser wireless kits and DPA and Sennheiser lavalier microphones.

Digital media workshops:

  • 80 iMacs and Mac Pro workstations
  • Colour grading monitors
  • Wacom Cintiq creative pen displays
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Avid Media Composer
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • ProTools
  • iZotope RX.

Student support

We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health, and disability support.

Additional needs

We'll support you if you have additional needs such as sensory impairment or dyslexia. And if you want to find out whether Middlesex is the right place for you before you apply, get in touch with our Disability and Dyslexia team.

Wellness

Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups and useful guides.

Work while you study

Our Middlesex Unitemps branch will help you find work that fits around uni and your other commitments. We have hundreds of student jobs on campus that pay the London Living Wage and above. Visit the Middlesex Unitemps page.

Financial support

You can apply for scholarships and bursaries and our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.

We have also reduced the costs of studying with free laptop loans, free learning resources and discounts to save money on everyday things. Check out our guide to student life on a budget.

Careers

Careers

How can the Film BA support your career?

We expect to build on our already excellent record in progressing our graduates into media industry careers. You can go into entry level positions such as runners in production and postproduction, kit hire providers, researchers, and assistant floor managers, sound assistants, assistant gaffers, standby props, set decorators, location assistants, etc.   
 
Graduates tend to move through the production hierarchies quickly, becoming junior production managers, production coordinators, camera operators, focus pullers, edit assistants, etc.   
 
You can go into diverse employment across the screen industries including broadcast, features, commercial, corporate, campaign, advertising, music videos, social media and streaming content. Our graduates have gone on to work at major institutions such as the BBC, Disney, Granada, Industrial Light and Magic, ENVY, Bandicoot TV, and ITV. Others have set up their own small businesses, attracting both commercial work and funded commissions, such as Speeding Films, Good Egg Media and Two Fresh Productions. We actively foster this network of alumni to support our current students. 

Several of our graduates have set up their own businesses in videography, social media, and visual marketing, examples include Speeding Films, Aquifer Film Studio.

Our alumni are close contacts and come back to tell us about working at the BBC, Channel 4, QVC International, ILM, Shine TV, the Venice Biennale, HBO, Netflix and Sky Sports.

MDXworks

Our employability service, MDXworks will launch you into the world of work from the beginning of your course, with placements, projects and networking opportunities through our 1000+ links with industry and big-name employers in London and globally.

Our dedicated lifetime career support, like our business start-up support programme and funding for entrepreneurs, has put us as a top 10 university for producing CEOs – Novuana, 2023.

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Want to be your own boss? You'll have the chance to pitch your business to gain mentoring and grants of up to £15,000.

Global network

You’ll study with students from 122 countries who’ll hopefully become part of your global network. And after you graduate, we'll still support you through our alumni network to help you progress in your chosen career.

Placements 

You are supported/encouraged to find opportunities on your own and/or supported on group briefs to deliver for industry or community partners. Opportunities will also be offered through the staff team who, through their industry and community connections, can assist students in linking up with placement partners, freelancing opportunities and/or in-house work experience that can be assessed.

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Hi, I'm Karla, and I studied film at Middlesex University. I first heard about script supervising through a master class during my second year in uni. When I was on my final year and this opportunity came my way of script supervise, a feature.  

And it was an amazing opportunity. Through the entrepreneurship module, I managed to be in touch with a production company that were doing this feature called Burmansey Tales. It was a collaboration between this production company and Middlesex.  

One of our lecturers suggested the idea of actually bringing students as part of the crew. Amongst them, it was me as a script supervisor. Having the chance to be able to experience this whilst having access to active feedback throughout the entire course, it was really a great opportunity.  

Overall, everyone that jumps into a course like this wants to grab onto something that will secure a position in the industry afterwards or to see that there's a way to achieve what we've been working on for the past three years.  

Another thing that I really loved about this university is how many people you get to meet. I'm an international student. I come from Spain. I very quickly felt very included. London is such a big, open city.  

So it genuinely feels like anything you might want, you could do. I'm slowly getting a foot into the industry. It is all about networking and you just need to want to do it. And if you really want to, it will eventually happen. 

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Entry requirements

Entry requirements

At Middlesex, we're proud of how we recognise the potential of future students like you. We make fair and aspirational offers because we want you to aim high, and we’ll support you all the way.

Qualifications

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Access requirements
Overall pass: must include 45 credits at level 3, of which all 45 must be at Merit or higher
Combinations
A combination of A-Level, BTEC and other accepted qualifications that total 64 UCAS Tariff points

We accept T Levels for entry onto this course (and our extended courses with a foundation year) with GCSEs in line with UCAS tariff calculation.

We’ll always be as flexible as possible and take into consideration any barriers you may have faced in your learning. And, if you don’t quite get the grades you hoped for, we’ll also look at more than your qualifications. Things like your work experience, other achievements and your personal statement.

If you have relevant qualifications or work experience, we may be able to count this towards your entry requirements.

Our entry requirements page outlines how we make offers.

Transfer courses?

If you have a qualification such as a foundation degree or HND or have completed terms at another university, you may be able to join us in year two or three. Find out how to transfer courses.

Mature students (over 21)

You can apply at any age, even without formal qualifications, provided you can demonstrate relevant experience and ability.

We welcome students from the UK and all over the world. Join students from over 122 countries and discover why so many international students call our campus home:

  • Quality teaching with top facilities plus flexible online learning
  • Welcoming north London campus that's only 30 minutes from central London
  • Work placements and networking with top London employers
  • Award-winning career support to get you where you want to go after university.

Qualifications

We accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the accepted qualifications on your country's support page. If you are unsure of the suitability of your qualifications or would like help with your application, please contact your nearest international office.

English language

You will need to meet our English language requirements. And, don’t worry If you don't meet our minimum English language requirements, as we offer a Pre-sessional English course.

Visas

To study with us in the UK, you might need a Student visa. Please check to see if this applies to you.

Please apply via UCAS using this UCAS code P303.

Need help with your application? Check out our undergraduate application page.

Personal Statement

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Interviews

You won't be required to interview for this course. 

Fees and funding

Fees 

The fees below are for the 2025/26 academic year:

UK students1

Full-time: £9,250

Part-time: £77 per taught credit

International students2

Full-time students: £16,600

Part-time students: £138 per taught credit

Additional costs

The following course-related costs are included in the fees:

  • A free electronic textbook for every module
  • All printing and copying required for your study
  • Self-service laptops available for loan for a maximum of 24 hours
  • Audio-visual equipment available for loan, including digital stills cameras, digital video recorders, digital audio recorders.

The following course-related costs are not included in the fees and you may be required to purchase these to complete the course. The costs are approximate and may change due to changes in pricing at the retailer.

  • Your filmmaking expenses, for example, location rental, transportation, catering for cast and crew, props and set decoration materials, etc. The amount you may spend – to be shared by the core filmmaking team – varies year by year. You will generally spend more money on your films as you progress through the course, but increasingly raise your budgets through fundraising activities, including crowdfunding
  • Additional books that you wish to purchase
  • External hard drives for your filmmaking projects. These vary widely in price, but you will want to buy good quality drives (eg, G-Tech) to protect your work. You must plan to back up everything to at least one other drive – preferably two.

Scholarships and bursaries

To help make uni affordable, we do everything we can to support you including our:

  • MDX Excellence Scholarship offers grants of up to £2,000 per year for UK students
  • Regional or International Merit Awards which reward International students with up to £2,000 towards course fees
  • Our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.

Find out more about undergraduate funding and all of our scholarships and bursaries.

Fees disclaimers

1. UK fees: The university reserves the right to increase undergraduate tuition fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions. The tuition fees for part-time UK study are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

2. International fees: Tuition fees are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

Any annual increase in tuition fees as provided for above will be notified to students at the earliest opportunity in advance of the academic year to which any applicable inflationary rise may apply.

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