MA Special Effects for Film & TV

This MA enables you to focus your studies on the conceptualisation, design and crafting of props, model-making, animatronics design and fabrication technologies. This taught course is industry-focused and will provide opportunities for you to engage with a broad range of skills and techniques required within special effects props production for film and TV and associated creative industries. You’ll delve into the interpretation of scripted and envisioned concepts which will expand your innovative thinking, originality, imagination and develop the practical and problem solving skills to carry the projects through problem-solving to completion. Upon graduation from this course you will have developed the theoretical and conceptual design approaches within your chosen specialism and the relevant practical skills to produce a polished and functional camera ready product to a professional standard suitable for the creative industries. You will be supported in the acquisition of knowledge to enable you to work as a freelancer in a competitive industry, enabling you to forge a successful career within your chosen specialism.

A minimum of 2.2 at BA/BSc level in a relevant subject is required. Alternatively, a Higher National Diploma (HND) qualification in relevant subject, with a minimum of 2 years’ industry experience will be required.Applicants will need to have a suitably appropriate portfolio of work and an undergraduate degree in areas such as Special Effects Make-Up, Animation, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Model- making, Sculptor making, Engineering Product Design, and Manufacturing Design. The key aim of this programme, depending on their specialism, is to deepen students’ knowledge and specialist skills in all related areas before entering the industry.