MA Documentary and Factual will give you the skills and understanding needed to work as a director and/or producer in today’s factual content industries.

Specific topics include finding and developing ideas, researching protagonists, learning interview techniques, research and access to contributors, creating stories, and pitching ideas. You will learn about production roles and develop skills in documentary editing, sound recording, and camerawork. Throughout this degree, you will explore funding strategies and potential audiences, and be immersed in productions where you can try out a range of skills.

Why Take the Course?

• Practical: Gain training and experience in producing, directing, camera operation, sound, and editing.
• Comprehensive: For students passionate about the various ways to shoot and document reality in today’s world, and who want to produce content that offers new insights and promotes compassion and awareness about a specific subject
• Industry-facing: Build your understanding of the contemporary industry landscape for documentaries and factual programming, including commissioning, financing, distribution and exhibition.
• Real-life Experience: You will conceive, create, and deliver a project to a client brief. Working within a creative team with other MA students, you will respond to a professional brief from a commercial or non-commercial business to produce a short project and showcase their creative talent to industry professionals.
• Portfolio: Create a portfolio of work with accompanying creative development and pitch documents to support you in your future career.
• Professional Tutors: Many of our teaching staff are currently working in the industry as Film and TV directors, broadcast journalists, producers, writers, and more*.

For a selection of the tutors who teach across our campuses, please see Our People.