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MetFilm: Directing

Institution MetFilm View institution profile
Department Met Film School Leeds View department profile
Web https://www.metfilmschool.ac.uk
Email info@metfilmschool.co.uk
Telephone 020 8280 9119
Study type Taught

Summary

The MA Directing programme is designed for you to develop the skills and understanding needed to work as a director in today’s multi-faceted screen industries. Today’s director must be knowledgeable about industry, entrepreneurial, multi-skilled, and able to bring a deep understanding of story and performance in different contexts. Through the programme, you will acquire advanced insight into the interpretation of scripts, visual storytelling, and working across a variety of screen platforms and industry contexts.

You will develop skills in directing actors and non-professional contributors. You will learn about the director’s role as a leader and collaborator, working to realise client briefs and audiences’ expectations. You will learn to recognise the importance of diversity and progressive working practices in your approaches to content making.

  • Practical: Through hands-on exercises, workshops, seminars, masterclasses, and screenings, students will gain the practical skills and knowledge required to work as a director.

  • Industry-facing: Work collaboratively with students on other MA pathways as a part of a creative crew to mirror industry practice. Experience what it takes to deliver a project, and develop communication, negotiation, and project management skills.

  • Real-life Experience: Learn the importance of working on a creative brief as a director while completing a project for an external company. Our students have previously worked with companies including Nespresso, Stonewall, Time out, DHL, HM Treasury, and Fender Guitars.

  • Portfolio: Students have the opportunity to undertake a number of directing exercises, including a short-form project for an external industry client, and a final project.

MA

MetFilm School Leeds is based within Prime Studios, a state-of-the-art media production facility, which includes make-up and wardrobe studios, props storage, as well as cinema and event spaces. Prime Studios has already collected an extensive list of productions, including The Duke, Hope Gap, and The ABC Murders, and is located right next door to ITV Studios, where the flagship soap Emmerdale is filmed.

Students and graduates have access to our dedicated careers advice department, MetFilm Futures, who regularly host Masterclasses and seminars, run career surgeries and competitions, and provide festival support, talent pools and job opportunities whilst …

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