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Creative Industries

MA

Start dates: September 2023

Full time: 1 year September - September

Part time: 2 years September - September

Location: Headington

Department(s): School of Arts

Overview
Course details
Careers
Entry requirements
How to apply
Tuition fees

Overview

If you are planning a career in the UK's rapidly-growing Creative Industries then you will need a passion for your chosen creative sector, a dynamic portfolio of research or creative practice, and the ability to work flexibly alongside other talented professionals. The MA in Creative Industries will inspire you within your chosen field of Film, Music or Digital Media Production whilst giving you the opportunity to broaden your horizons with interdisciplinary live projects.

This is a flexible postgraduate programme with pathways in Film, Music, and Digital Media Production, and a final project which can be focussed either towards research or creative practice. The degree includes optional live projects, giving you opportunities to work directly with external businesses to deliver professional creative projects. These live projects are enabled by our student-led agency, Brookes Creative.

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Course details

Course structure

All students on the MA in Creative Industries take the following modules:

  • Research Skills & Methods
  • Professional Experience
  • Dissertation or Creative Project

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Learning and teaching

The MA in Creative Industries is taught through a mixture of class-based activities (e.g. seminars, guest speakers), experiential learning (e.g. live projects) and independent study supported by expert supervision (e.g. dissertation or creative project).

Assessment

Assessment tasks may include written research assignments, video essays, group projects and reflective logbooks of experiential learning. Feedback is crucial for students development and most assignments build in opportunities for you to discuss your work (e.g. research seminars, proposals, idea pitching sessions).

Field Trips

MA students in the School of Arts have recently been on field trips to overseas locations including Rome and Milan.

Study modules

Film students will focus on the production and consumption of narrative feature films in both contemporary and historical periods. You will learn how to analyse recent and classic films in their industrial context, to engage with film curatorship and festival programming, and to as consider the rich microhistories of cinemagoing and spectatorship.

Music students will investigate how and where music is produced and the ways that it is consumed. You will analyse a range of venues.The ways that music is consumed have radically changed in recent decades, and you will therefore learn tools to research all the contemporary facets of music distribution, music gatekeepers and music audiences.

Digital Media Production students will examine a range of media including documentary feature films, shorts and television shows. You will have the opportunity to approach the documentary form both in terms of theory and practice, by researching and producing a short film taken from real life. 

Taught modules

Compulsory modules

Dissertation or Creative Project (30 credits)

Your final project may be either a written dissertation, a video essay or a creative
project (e.g. short documentary, artists video installation).

Professional Experience (30 credits)

This module gives you the opportunity to plan and carry out a work placement or live
project in the creative industries.

Research Skills & Methods

This module gives you the vital skills in research which you will need for all other assignments.

Optional modules

Digital Media Production

Digital Transformations in Film, Media & Media Journalism (30 credits)

You will trace the development of media journalism through recent decades of digital
transformation and develop skills in feature writing, web journalism and podcasting.


Cultures of Documentary Production (30 credits)

You will have the opportunity to approach the documentary form both in terms of theory
and practice, by researching and producing a short film taken from real life.

Film

Modes of Film Production (30 credits)

You will focus on the production of narrative feature films in both contemporary and
historical periods, and learn how to analyse recent and classic films in their industrial
context.


Film Exhibition, Programming and Audiences (30 credits)

You will engage with film curatorship and festival programming, and consider the rich
microhistories of cinemagoing and spectatorship.

Music

Sites of Music Production (30 credits)

You will investigate how and where music is produced by learning how to analyse a
range of different music venues.


Modes of Music Consumption (30 credits)

You will learn tools to research all the contemporary facets of music distribution, music
gatekeepers and music audiences.

Work placement

Optional modules

Professional Experience

This module gives you the opportunity to plan and carry out a work placement or live project in the creative industries.

Final project

Compulsory modules

Dissertation or Creative Project

Your final project may be either a written dissertation, a video essay or a creative project (e.g. short documentary, artists video installation).

Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Research

Academics in the School of Arts are part of The Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network which brings together researchers, professionals, and local communities to share expertise and build social change.

All School of Arts staff are active researchers publishing widely on subjects such as:

  • Film music
  • Opera
  • Sound Art
  • Film audiences
  • Immersive Documentary
  • Queer Theory.

Careers

Having a master's qualification helps you to stand out from the crowd, whether you are joining the MA straight after graduating or returning to study after a break of several years.

Our MA will provide you with the skills and knowledge to embark upon a career in the creative and media industries or to improve your current position. You will be able to take advantage of a wealth of Creative Industries based in Oxfordshire and access our student-led creative agency Brookes Creative who will be enabling many of the live projects and placements.

Graduates have found work in the following areas:

  • Media Production
  • Arts Administration
  • Teaching and Research
  • Digital Marketing
  • Publishing and Journalism.

Many MA students continue onto further research and careers in academia, and our course provides the necessary research training required for doctoral work. Graduates of this course will be well placed to pursue a range of careers within the film industry and academia. Many go on to PhD study, in the UK and abroad. Other examples include cinema programming and marketing, animation, teaching, journalism. 

Entry requirements

International qualifications and equivalences

How to apply

Application process


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Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
2023 / 24
Home (UK) full time
£8,700
International full time
£16,500

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Tuition fees

2023 / 24
Home (UK) full time
£8,700
International full time
£16,500

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 483088

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year, your fees will increase each year.

Financial support and scholarships

Self-funded, postgraduate loans.

For general sources of financial support, see our Fees and funding pages.

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.