Film and Television Production

Our BA (Hons) Film Production degree course will prepare you for employment or self-employment in film, television and the creative industries; the ever-expanding field of online screen content including music, dance, marketing and fashion promos; as well as high-end small screen (streaming) drama and documentary.

You might decide to stay at ARU and study for a Masters, like our MA Film and Television Production. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship to get 20% off your fees.

Here are where some of our previous students have found work:

• Gabi Kazuikonyte, Senior VFX Coordinator – Cambridge-based visual effects studio Vine FX
• Agata Kazmierczak, Technical Operator – BBC News
• Victoria Burrows, VFX Coordinator – Scanline. Previously Runner, then Production Coordinator, then Producer at Technicolor.
• Jaimie Richmond, Runner – Taskmaster (Avalon)
• Amber Gough and Paolo Sampson, Autocue – BBC Look East
• Poppy Billet, Gallery Runner – 24 Hours in A&E
• Chris Anstey, Camera Assistant – Love Island (NEP Group)
• Lily Bruce, Senior Talent Consultant – Aspire
• Lucy Dear, Sports Production Co-ordinator – ITN Productions
• Shona Murray-Smith, Production Co-ordinator – Kingdom. Previously Post-Production at Molinare and Freemantle Media.
• Hayley Dean, Production Co-ordinator – Dock10
• Sam Cornish, Production Executive – Genesius Pictures
• Pedro Riberio, freelance First Assistant Camera and Director of Photography work, currently working in Australia with Network 10 and ABC
• Amy Willet, Production Co-ordinator – Plimsoll Productions. Previously worked at BBC Natural History Unit.
• Anne Evelin Lawford, freelance Director of Photography and Fine Artist shooting commercials and promos, as well as 2nd Unit Camera on feature films.
• Dean Dodds Ramsey, Script Supervisor – television and films including Kick-Ass 2
• Martin Galvin, Assistant Director – EastEnders and Doctors

Our students have worked with Cambridge Film Festival, one of the longest-running film festivals in the UK, and the Watersprite International Film Festival.

In 2022 the graduation film Roots was selected for official competition at the Watersprite International Student Festival and Cambridge Film Festival, winning the Watersprite Cinematography award and the GTC Bill Vinten Universities Award for Camera for cinematographer Agata Kazmierczak.

They’ve also collaborated with University of Cambridge students through extracurricular events, including at student-run radio station Cam FM and the ADC Theatre.

Our extra-curricular funded film projects have included HMS Belfast videos for the Imperial War Museum, shorts for C4’s Random Acts, the Kodak 16mm Commercials Competition and most recently, and a collaboration with the Globe's Sixty Second Shakespeare project.

We want you to be a step ahead when you graduate, so we offer:

• courses designed with employers
• tutors with professional industry knowledge
• hands-on learning through Live Briefs, internships and placements
• Ruskin Modules that help develop the skills employers value.

Alongside your course, there are lots of other opportunities to build your skills and experience:

• add value to your CV with an ARU Certificate of Professional Development
• get involved in a thriving volunteering programme
• develop your brilliant business ideas
• work with businesses to make a social impact.

We’re here to help you develop your CV and find that all-important role after graduation. Our Employability Service offers tailored career appointments, advice on writing your CV, help to complete job applications, and much more. You’ll have 24/7 access to an online Careers Centre too, which is packed with useful resources.

The support continues after you graduate, with lifelong access to our Alumni Career Centre.

Find out more about careers support at ARU.

Your placement year is a chance to put everything you’ve learnt in Years 1 and 2 into practice. Spend up to nine months working for an organisation, developing your skills and gaining valuable work experience. Our Placements Team is here to help you secure a placement.

You’ll 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.