MA in Documentary Practice
Accepting applications from Autumn 2011 and running with its first cohort of students from September 2012, the MA in Documentary Practice offers a creative production environment within a research-based postgraduate Film Studies department. The course is practical, creative, and supports students who wish to become professional filmmakers and/or research academics. This combination of production professionalism and academic excellence is key to promoting intellectual, current, and socially engaged documentary makers.
Teaching
The MA has two teaching semesters. The first semester running from the end of September to mid-December and the second running January to the end of March. There is a third semester for research project work running from April until the end of August.
In the first and second semester the teaching for the MA in Documentary Practice comprises taught modules with lectures, screenings, seminars and independent production work. There will be roughly two days of sessions schedule across the teaching week during the teaching semesters. The Film Studies Research Project starting in April and ending in late August is an independent project, with research and production work, which is supervised through one to one tutorials.
Modules
The MA is made up of a range of 30 and 60 credit modules totaling 180 credits
Documentary Film: Theory and Practice
Documentary Production Project
Course Team
The practice-based teaching on the MA in Documentary Practice is undertaken by specialist staff supported by external practitioners. The core course is taught by research academics and each Research Project is co-supervised by a practice-based tutor and a member of the research team. Film Studies staff:
Postgraduate Production
While the MA in Documentary Practice is running for the first time in Autumn 2012 the department of Films has run practice-based modules with a production element for several years. There is also an established undergraduate BA Hons Film Studies programme with production work in fiction, documentary and scriptwriting.
Professional Links
The MA in Documentary will be enhanced through a variety of professional contacts who will contribute and provide opportunities for the course. The Department of Film has its own postgraduate development production company, Mile End Films, which produces both documentary and fiction work. Also, through the Film Department’s undergraduate teaching curriculum and its support for professional development there have been extensive collaborations with BrassneckTV. As the MA develops it is planned that professional links will develop further. The department has purpose-built screening facilities that are suitable for hosting public festivals and screenings which will be used to promote the MA to a wider audience.
The Department of Film
The Department of Film has its own production and studio facilities with dedicated staff. The department is part of an international school with French, German, Russian and Iberian and Latin America Departments. The aim of the MA in Documentary Practice is to be an international programme in terms of its students and staff and in terms of the range of work produced on the course.
To discuss the MA in Documentary Practice please contact:
Eugene Doyen
Programme Leader
Email: e.doyen@qmul.ac.uk
Tel: +44 20 7882 8297
Postgraduate admissions
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
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General postgraduate information
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International students
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Graduate Admissions Office
Queen Mary, University of London
London E1 4NS
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