Immersive Factual Storytelling MA

Join us at our new UCL East campus to take your storytelling skills and confidence to the next level, so you’re ready to join the international immersive VRAR documentary community. Apply 360 production, ethics, spatial audio and coding to a series of short experiences before completing an ambitious graduate project. The Immersive Factual Storytelling MA will develop your skills as a factual immersive designer and storyteller, including training in the use of 360-degree cameras, immersive sound equipment and the creation of computer-graphics-based virtual-reality experiences. Unlike other virtual-reality and immersive-technology programmes, this MA focuses on factual storytelling, including creating stories for enterprise use. You will learn to plan, produce and pitch exhibition-quality narrative-based immersive experiences and graduate with the skills to practice as a non-fiction 360-degree virtual-reality storyteller. You will explore the boundaries of immersive storytelling by drawing on anthropological and social-science approaches to documentary, while taking inspiration from games, films, immersive audio experiences, and more. You will benefit from regular contact with industry-leading practitioners to help you expand your ideas, ambitions and professional networks, equipping you for your professional life beyond UCL. From audio production to experimental cinema, you will specialise in the elements of public anthropology that interest you most, choosing from a range of optional modules to enrich your appreciation and understanding of factual storytelling in different contexts. The Immersive Factual Storytelling MA is best suited to students looking to develop their immersive factual storytelling and production in a professional framework, guided by leading industry figures and informed by innovative and scientific approaches. You may already be actively engaged with immersive storytelling in previous work or studies and want to extend your storytelling by exploring experiential factual storytelling. The degree is well-suited to working professionals who wish to study part-time over two years.

We normally require an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Applicants with lower second-class degrees (i.e. UK 2:2 or the overseas equivalent) may be considered if their application is supported strongly by relevant experience. In exceptional circumstances, we will also consider applicants without higher education qualifications provided they demonstrate a significant track record in this or a related field.We seek students who can show evidence of active engagement in immersive storytelling in previous work or study experience. We require a portfolio of work to support all applications.