Film Production

Step into professional filmmaking with our immersive, hands-on Film Production degree, designed to guide you from idea development to festival-ready work through a carefully structured, practice-led curriculum.

You’ll be taught by experienced industry practitioners and film scholars, combining professional insight with critical and creative development. Teaching is delivered through an innovative block structure that allows you to focus deeply on each stage of the filmmaking process, from concept to completion.

From day one, you’ll work with industry-standard facilities including professional camera equipment, post-production suites and a state-of-the-art virtual production stage, gaining practical experience within a supportive learning environment.

In your first year, you’ll build strong foundations across four interconnected blocks, developing film ideas into a five- to six-minute fiction film. You’ll explore film theory, creative development, screenwriting, production roles, cinematography, and post-production, learning each stage of the process in sequence while producing a complete short film.

The second year deepens your creative and analytical skills. You’ll explore global film movements and cinematic aesthetics, rotate key crew roles, and develop more ambitious work. You’ll choose between documentary practice or commercials and music video production using virtual production, before progressing through a two-stage development and production process for a 10-minute film.

In your final year, you’ll bring everything together in a final major film project, working towards professional, festival-ready outcomes. You’ll develop advanced specialisms in directing, cinematography, or post-production, while learning fundraising, audience strategy and career planning to support your transition into the film and screen industries.

With a strong emphasis on practical filmmaking, creative experimentation and professional development, Solent University provides an environment where emerging filmmakers can develop their voice, skills and confidence for a sustainable career in film production.

If you’re looking to study our film production degree but don’t have the relevant qualifications or experience, the foundation year in media will help you develop the core skills and knowledge to progress. Find out more about the foundation year in media.

Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for creative students who are passionate about filmmaking and visual storytelling, and who are motivated to learn through hands-on practice.

It suits applicants who enjoy being challenged, are open to experimentation, and understand the importance of combining practical skills with critical and theoretical frameworks.

The course is well suited to students who are collaborative, curious, and interested in how stories can be shaped through image, sound and structure, across fiction, documentary and commercial screen work

What does this course lead to?
Graduates of this course pursue careers across the film and screen industries in roles such as director, producer, cinematographer, editor, sound designer, art director and assistant director.

Many begin in essential secondary crew roles, gaining on-set experience and progressing into senior creative positions over time. Others work in documentary, commercials, music videos, branded content and digital media, or progress into postgraduate study.

The course also supports freelance and entrepreneurial pathways, equipping graduates with the creative, technical and professional skills needed to sustain long-term careers in a competitive industry.

Solent's Clearing fast pass* gets you ahead, with priority support and everything you need to feel confident about your next step. Secure your guaranteed offer before results day and unlock a 20% discount on Kimber and Chantry student halls, a £100 IKEA voucher, free gold gym membership for the academic year, and a £150 campus dining voucher.

*T&Cs apply. Full details on our website.

Join the career-ready revolution this summer at Solent. Every course is designed around five things: real-world learning in every module; block teaching, so you study one subject at a time, not five assignments at once; direct links with employers and careers support for life. This isn't a tweak. It's a rethink of what university should be.

Our facilities are built with your future career in mind, including Warsash Maritime School, the Solent Sports Complex, science labs, animation and 3D modelling studios and applied mechanics and composites labs.

And outside class? Southampton has it all: shopping, culture, live music, football, cricket, festivals, markets, tiny Thai cafes, ghost walks and record fairs. It's friendly, walkable, and one of the UK's most affordable student cities. With a diverse community and societies for every interest, you'll find your tribe here too.

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