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Film and Television Production

BA (Hons)

Film and Television Production

Film and TV

Do you want to make films and TV programmes? Do you have ambitions to become a director, producer, editor, or camera operator? This course can help to realise your ambition.The main aim is for you to develop the skills needed to create and produce films and television programmes in a variety of existing and evolving contexts for viewing and distribution, including broadcast television, online, and in cinemas.

This course will extend your understanding of the reach, responsibility and influence of content, the means of production, and distribution. It has a particular emphasis upon the sensibilities of social action and inclusion that underpin global citizenship and that could shape the entrepreneurial and employment landscape that production graduates will enter - and influence – when they complete their studies. This course is genuinely inclusive and nurturing of local talent, and we have helped many students to produce award-winning work and gain employment with major broadcasters and production companies. 

This hands-on, highly practical production course will see you engage in a wide range of film and television practices that will prepare you for employment in the creative industries or in other industries where media production and authorship play a part.

Technological developments and social change mean that film and television production is an ever evolving, innovative and exciting field of study. Right from the start of the course you will work on project briefs grounded in professional production. These briefs may be imagined, ‘live’ (from real clients), or facsimiles of real-world commissions. Researching, coming up with ideas, designing responses, pitching and actually rehearsing, shooting, editing, screening and then distributing short film and television programmes will be your daily experience on this course. The practical projects, lectures, and investigative tasks promote an awareness of the need for adaptation and change, and emphasise the experimentation, authorship, and leadership that engenders innovation in content and distribution. It encourages the expression of self and group identities, and an awareness of global film and television cultures.

As well as the formal curriculum, additional live briefs from local businesses, university and community partners are offered to students as enrichment activities, and such activities can lead to real content for show reels and enhancing of CVs. Personal development planning, employment preparation, work experience, plus hosting and presenting screenings and discussions are all part of the course journey.  In addition, we have great links with regional community broadcasters and cinema/performance venues, which means that you may make use of opportunities to promote your work on television and radio and at regional screening venues.

We have strong links with industries through our Screen School programes, including the BBC, with visiting lectures and live briefs with organisations around the West Midlands. Creating meaning and identity through storytelling is a unifying element of the course, whether through drama, documentary, or other forms of film/programme.

Examples of community engagement are our longstanding involvement with Deaffest, the UK’s only International Deaf Film and Television Festival, our annual Meet the Directors screenings and panel discussions, and the many social action projects that students deliver for voluntary/not- for-profit organisations in the region.

The emphasis on the management of challenging, complex productions will provide you with a powerful set of skills, which will enhance your employability in any field, as will the experience of effective working with others as you collaborate with fellow students, clients, commissioners, actors and other participants in the films/programmes you make.

Alumni graduate Jamie Jones graduated in 2020 and is now freelance film crew and voice actor, take a look at his time on the course here.

From 2021 Film and Television will be part of our new multi-million pound,

Screen School represents a radical transformation of our educational offer, providing an impetus for our ongoing commitment to regional upskilling, nurturing talent for the careers of tomorrow for local regeneration. Ongoing course development will dovetail with industry requirements, economic regeneration, and social mobility of students in our increasingly buzzing region to offer a new epicentre of screen-based creativity for the West Midlands.

Film and Television production facilities

Our facilities have been designed with the requirement to ensure users are able to explore and develop their passion for Film and Television.

Our ongoing links with industry professionals enables access to current working practices which ensures users gain experience with workflows and tools, enabling them to offer a high standard of relevant skills to employers upon graduation.

The infrastructure is designed to mirror professional installations and allows collaboration between all areas of the Screen School and external clients. By participating in multi-disciplinary projects, users can foster professional relationships and gain invaluable experience.

Television studio

A specialist studio designed to facilitate a variety of activities related to television and filmmaking. Equipped with seven broadcast cameras including pedestals, jibs, sliders, CueScript teleprompters, and talkback system housed within an acoustically treated space. Complete studio LED lighting system including RGB lights. Multiple backdrops including Chromakey facilities. Local or remote Wi-Fi controlled vision mixing.

Gallery

Fully control all elements of a production from the gallery.

Control positions include camera engineer, lighting console, script supervisor, teleprompt operator, vision mixer, director, producer, talkback controller and sound console. Multiple large-screen monitor panels relay essential information to the gallery users to ensure a production is managed efficiently and accurately.

Foley suite

Audio production and post-production facility built around a multi-component system to enable flexibility and ensure the latest professional practices are available to users. Produce foley sound, ADR, and capture and manipulate all aspects of audio required for your production.

Pre-production base room and a post-production base room 

Professional environments designed to allow productions teams to work on their productions from script development to planning production schedules. These spaces also provide access to 15 individual edit workstations for initial preparation of your project before finalisation of your work in the post-production finishing suites.

Post-production finishing suite

Individual post-production suites equipped with audio and visual finishing tools including colour grading monitors. Four finishing suites with colour grading facilities and one post-production suite with screening facility.

PC lab

A classroom resource with 30 high-end workstations for taught sessions with access to an Avid Nexis server to enable access to your project throughout the facility

Rehearsal studio

A Rehearsal studio for activities related to your productions such as scene run-throughs or table reads and equipment testing before location shoots.

Screening facility

Screening room with Dolby Vision 4K Screening System and Dolby Atmos Sound System

Equipment store

Access our well-equipped store through our online booking system which allows for efficient planning of all activities related to your production.

On completion of the course:

• You will be a videographer/programme-maker/filmmaker who may have chosen to develop a specialism in one or more areas of production, such as directing, producing, editing, camera, sound, and/or writing.
• You will have worked on a range of film/programme types, including documentary, drama, social action, commercial, and studio-based productions – including, when appropriate, live briefs and commissions.
• You will have abilities in the analysis of media texts, skills in project management, and effective methods of working with other people and organisations.
• You will have had the opportunity to take part in live briefs in conjunction with the industry.
• You will have explored a range of entrepreneurial and industrial contexts in which you might find employment and you will have prepared an action plan for your future employment and your continued professional development.

Wolverhampton School of Art Graduate Showcase 2021

We are delighted to announce our end of year graduate showcase highlighting the work of our final year students in Art, Design and Screen-based subjects.

Additional information

BA (Hons) BA (Hons) Film and Television Production

• The member of academic staff who leads this course is Phil Nichols
• For more information about our facilities .

Wolverhampton School of Art

• For more information about the Wolverhampton School of Art, visit our homepage.
• Discover more about our outstanding facilities – visit our facilities pages.
• Check out the work of our 2020 graduating students on our Degree Show page.

Filmmaker Andrew Webber, one of our graduates, has had his films screened at international festivals in the UK, Jamaica, and West Africa. He says, “The University has been extremely supportive, through my studies and after graduation.”

Niki Gandy has pursued a teaching career, and now teaches photography and art in a high school. She says, “I'm a proud graduate of Video and Film Production, a course I chose for its practical content and which helped furnish me with numerous transferable skills necessary to forge my career in teaching. Almost a decade on, my lecturers continue to provide me with support and guidance. I feel certain that my relationship with the University will continue for many years to come.”

Actor and director Brian Duffy, another graduate, came up with the idea for Small World, a comedy series about a group of deaf flatmates which has been shown on TV and online, with a friend. Brian says, “Studying at the University of Wolverhampton helped me with networking and organisation – especially as filmmakers came to Wolverhampton for Deaffest, the UK’s leading deaf film and arts festival. My lecturer could also sign which was a great help and a huge weight off my shoulders – I could talk to her one-to-one. That’s something I never had the pleasure of, pre-university.”

Lauren Shinner has been working in media production ever since graduating. She says, “My time at the University was invaluable, I wouldn't be where I am today without it. The tutors were always helpful and push students to do their best with plenty of support and understanding, and the course prepares you well for your prospective career. I've gone on to work as a video editor in education, ran my own media business, and have done videos for high-end charities and new bands. I am now working in media in another area. Without my degree, none of this would have been possible.”

This course is genuinely inclusive and nurturing of local talent, and we have helped many students to produce award-winning work and gain employment with major broadcasters and production companies. That said, we also attract students from across the UK, the EU and around the world. We work very closely with the local community, as well as regional and national organisations, to provide learning experiences that benefit not only each individual student but also the wider communities that the University serves.

We have an array of state-of-the-art equipment in our brand new Screen School.

Your studies will be supported by technicians and a full-time technical demonstrator.

Further information

You will be taught by staff with professional experience in media production, who are also qualified teachers and active researchers.

Don Adamson (Principal Lecturer) has professional experience in theatre and video production. He has an MA in Multimedia, and also serves the University’s Faculty of Arts as Principal Lecturer for the Student Experience.

Tracy McCoy (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Production) has a professional background in social action video production, and a track record of helping young people find a voice through drama and film. She has an MA in Multimedia, and her PhD research investigates the impact, tensions and contradictions of supporting individuation and special needs while fostering creativity.

Phil Nichols (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Production) has a professional background in the technical side of production. He has an MA in Screenwriting, and his PhD research deals with screenwriting in relationship to literature. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Senior Advisor to The Centre for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University.

We offer lower fees for international students to this course. Please see Fees and Finance section below for details.

If you have ambitions to work in film, television or related media, this course prepares you for key roles such as editor, camera operator, producer or director. The nature of the media industries is such that you are most likely to pursue a path as a freelance media professional, which entails portfolio working, and this course will set you up well for this.

The course also gives you highly valuable transferable skills in areas such as project management and creative collaboration, which will also prepare you for graduate jobs in a variety of other fields.

You will gain skills in camerawork, lighting design, sound recording, editing, studio and location operations, script writing, sound design, directing and producing. You will also gain skills in analysis of texts and media texts, essay writing and research, giving presentations, working in teams, managing your own work, and planning and managing complex projects.

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Adult Nursing

BNurs (Hons)

Adult Nursing

Nursing

Our Adult Nursing course adopts a person centred approach to enable you to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide safe and effective nursing care.

It will enable you, if successful, to apply to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to practise as a registered Adult Nurse in a range of diverse health and social care settings. As a student on this course, the experience you gain will allow you to pursue a range of pathways, in addition you will also have exposure to patients from other areas including mental health and learning disability, as well as children’s nursing. The opportunities you have coming into nursing are vast: working clinically, becoming a manager, working in a research environment, working abroad and in education. 

Nursing is a demanding vocation which requires hard work, commitment, the ability to problem solve, work independently and contribute to care as part of a team.

We have strong partnerships with our clinical practice partners.

Intakes: September and April

Please note if you study at the Telford campus, you may as part of the course requirements be required to attend Walsall and/or Wolverhampton campus for some skills sessions during the course.

50% of your course will be situated in the University and 50% in a variety of practice areas.

You will study a range of academic core (all fields of nursing) and field (adult-focused) modules based on theory and practice experiences. As you move through the course, the course content becomes less generic and more specific to adult nursing.

A lot of what you’ll do on the course is based in the skills labs, which gives you the opportunity to test out your skills in a safe environment. We work very closely with service users, people who have had experiences themselves and want to make a difference to what you, our student nurses, experience. They inform the course content and are involved in its delivery – for example, you may take the blood pressure of a service user in the skills lab setting.

Placements include providing nursing care to some of society’s most vulnerable people including the elderly and those who are physically ill or have a physical or learning disability. In order to ensure all the people you care for are protected and kept safe, you will be expected to abide by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance for student nurses.

There are a range of different assessments on this degree. In the first year of the course, you will complete an online examination, a written piece based on a case study, a critique on a research article, and a group assessment – testing your teamwork and collaboration skills.

During your placements, you will gain an appreciation for the entire patient journey within a hospital. For example, a placement on a medical ward could involve some time working with the District Nurse, you may spend time at a diabetes clinic, or in Imaging and Ultrasound. As only a small percentage of people who visit hospitals end up in a bed on a ward, it is important for you to gain an appreciation for the other areas of the patient journey so you can contextualise care.  

As a student nurse, you are required to work shifts, including weekends and bank holidays. Shifts can be in the day or at night to ensure you gain experience of the different types of care patients receive at different times of day.

Placements will be undertaken with one of six NHS Trusts; The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, most recently Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, or in private health organisations. 

For more information on placements and locations, visit: https://wlv.ac.uk/schools-and-institutes/faculty-of-education-health-and-wellbeing/nursing/nursing-placement/

Student accommodation is available at Wolverhampton, Walsall and Telford Campus. 

For further information about alternative accomodation options visit the  page

• We have invested in our state-of-the-art skills facility at both City Campus and Walsall Campus.  The City skills labs have an immersive simulation suite, meaning we can change the environment without moving the students – so we can recreate a road traffic accident, simulate someone who is having an acute mental health crisis, or produce an imitation intensive care unit. Through these simulations, you will get a sense of the environment you may end up in in clinical practice and apply appropriate responses.   At our Walsall Campus we have New, expanded clinical skills laboratories - providing a safe, non-threatening environment for teaching and practice.  The skills and simulation facilities include several mock hospital ward rooms, mock bedsit and terraced house to practice in as well as using the latest technology with access to an anatomage table.  The facilities Panopto enabled - which allows sessions to be filmed and played back and give a patient’s eye-view.  Similarly we also have skills labs at Telford and Burton Campuses.
• Work started in October 2021 on a new £5million health and social care training centre.  The new Marches Centre of Excellence in Healthcare, Allied Health & Social Care will provide state-of-the-art training facilities for the next generation of health workers at our Telford Campus.  
• You will gain hands-on experiences in a variety of hospital, community and excellent nursing/residential homes, where you work alongside a range of healthcare and other professionals. You will experience opportunities for inter-disciplinary learning across all nursing pathways and with midwifery, social work and social care.
• When you apply to the University of Wolverhampton, we provide you with a list of all of our placement providers. You then get to select a first and second choice as to where you would like to spend your time in practice. Students always evaluate this well as it means you get to know your local Trust – the Trust gets to grow their own workforce, and you as the student have a greater chance of earning a job at the end of your course.
• You may apply your new skills during an international placement opportunity, in countries such as Spain, Finland and Norway.

Who will teach you on this course?

All of the staff that teach you on this course are Registered Nurses. You will benefit from the team’s expertise, which draws on a wealth of different experiences including: A&E, critical care, community care, specialist cancer care, and experience as Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Ward Managers.

Want to find out more...why not attend one of our Open Days, where you will have the opportunity to talk to staff and students who are currently studying and find out more about the course and our facilities.  Open Day - University of Wolverhampton (wlv.ac.uk) 

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Once you have gained your BNurs (Hons) Adult Nursing then this will open up the prospect of many jobs in clinical practice, hospital or community settings, research, teaching or managerial roles. Registered Nurses (RN) continue to study after they have qualified, often in a specialist area, as they develop their career path. Adult Nurses often comment that this qualification has ‘opened doors’ to exciting career opportunities in healthcare.

With experience, as an RN you can take additional qualifications enabling you to work in the community or district nursing, health visiting or school nursing. Adult trained RNs often work in GP practices and hospice settings. In hospitals, adult RNs may work in wards, outpatient clinics or specialist areas such as Accident and Emergency or Intensive Care Units.

You may also take the opportunity to become an Advanced Nurse Practitioner or nurse consultant. If you register as an Adult Nurse, you may wish to undertake midwifery training or work abroad in Australia, New Zealand or EU Countries.
 

As a Registered Nurse you will:

• Meet the NMC Standards of proficiency for pre-registration nursing education.

• Have obtained the subject knowledge and understanding surrounding the professional and ethical conduct of a nurse, to deliver a high standard of appropriate nursing care and leadership and supervision of others, as well as being able to reflect on your personal and professional development.

• Demonstrate subject specific knowledge related to the field of adult nursing, including professional and ethical practice, appropriate care delivery, managing care and personal and professional management.

• Identify health and social care policy trends and be able to use evidence and develop arguments to underpin your own practice, to evaluate the delivery of healthcare services.

• Be able to apply decision making and problem solving techniques in order to provide quality care to patients and support their families.