Film Production with Foundation Year, BA

​​Over the course of the coming year, ​you will be taught all the academic skills that are required to prepare you for the next stage of the Film Production degree. You will be introduced to a variety of visual media techniques as well as taught the wider academic skills, all of which will ensure that you have all the tools you need to thrive on the degree.

Before classes start in full there will be a welcome week to help prepare you for your studies and to introduce you to key members of the course team, please do keep an eye out for emails on events that are taking place during that week so that you will be able to attend.

As part of the course you will have a Personal Academic Tutor, this is the person who you will be able to contact about any issues or problems with your studies, you will be introduced to them by the end of the first week of teaching.

The staff and students on the degree are part of a wider community of creative practitioners in Canterbury Christ Church University, this includes performers, composers, producers, game designers, photographers, and dancers. We hope that you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to gain inspiration from this diverse community and expand and enhance your own creative practice.

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​​In your first semester you will work on two modules The Big Picture and Creative Arts and Industries

​The Big Picture helps you find your place in university and the wider world. Through lectures, seminars, and guided online learning, you will see how university differs from school and workplace training, and how your subject connects to real issues.

​On The Big Picture Lectures are delivered each teaching week to create an event‑style experience for you. This is supported with two Seminars that run in subject clusters. Seminars after the lectures link the talk to your discipline and move on to your assessment preparation. The separate one-hour seminar is a chance to reflect and seek support as well as work on the assessment.

​The Creative Arts and Industries module will consist of a mixture of interactive lectures, practical workshops, and group/1-1 tutorials with the tutors. You will start the day with a lecture among students from courses across the creative arts subjects where you will learn about the creative arts industries and key concepts within them, get to know staff in the area and hear guest employability talks. After the lecture, you will move into smaller groups for workshops exploring theoretical and practical perspectives related to your own discipline as well as wider creative arts areas. Once you have built up your skills, later workshops will involve you working on a collaborative media project with students from different creative arts courses.

​In the first few weeks of this module, you will be introduced to different areas of the creative arts industries and relevant key concepts. Each week, you will take a workshop that focuses on a different area of creative arts, as well as a workshop that is targeted towards your subject area.

​​ As part of your studies as a Film Production student it is recommended that you read the following book to help prepare you for thinking about film style and how it can be used to convey meaning, there are many copies in the library for you to check out.

• ​Bordwell, D. & Thompson, K., Smith, J., (2026). Film Art: An Introduction. 13th ed. McGraw-Hill.​