Film Producing
| Award | Attendance | Study | Duration | Start | Domestic fees | International fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA | On-Campus | Full-time | find out | September | find out | find out |
About Film Producing, MA - at London Film School
MA Film Producing is a one year course taught over five modules, and addresses all the core competences required of a professional film producer in an industry which operates globally. Aspiring film producers are immersed in the LFS creative hothouse of student directors, screenwriters, and cinematographers from over 50 nations. The School is housed in two film studio buildings in Covent Garden, which contain shooting stages, full post-production facilities, and extensive camera and location kit. Script development, project management, budgeting and delivery and business skills are the key skills taught on this explicitly industry-facing MA programme.
The central role of the Producer sits at the heart of the UK industry’s dramatic growth over the last decade (where production spend trebled from £2.4bn to £7bn - making the UK the second largest production centre for film and high-end TV drama in the world after California).
By the end of the course students will be sufficiently trained to enter the film / TV industry as a producer / line producer / production manager with the technical skills (project management, scheduling, financing and contracting) which have been repeatedly identified as part of the UK skills shortage by industry reviews including the BFI / Broccoli Report. Graduating students will also be able to construct viable film / television proposals to external stakeholders, combining creative, business and legal requirements while also addressing hot button current issues such as diversity and sustainability.
Entry requirements
Contact London Film School to find course entry requirements.
Why study at London Film School
- GLOBAL: The world’s international graduate film conservatoire. A diverse range of cultures and film traditions makes for a creative hothouse. This global network, once built, lasts a professional lifetime.
- PRACTICAL: The school operates as a busy working studio, producing around 180 films each year. Filmmakers gain key credits on production exercises throughout the course, plus on graduation films.
- RECOGNISED: The School has been awarded World-Leading Specialist Provider status by the Office for Students. The status marks LFS out as being recognised internationally in the filmmaking specialism, providing a level of quality and expertise among the finest in the world.
- PROVEN: Thousands of high profile alumni include directors Michael Mann (Public Enemies), Mike Leigh (Mr Turner), Ann Hui (A Simple Life), Koby Adom (Top Boy, Noughts + Crosses), Carla Simon (Alcarràs); cinematographers Erik Wilson (Paddington), Roger Pratt (Harry Potter) Tak Fujimoto (The Sixth Sense); editors Robert Leighton (Misery, A Few Good Men), Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir (Bullet Train, John Wick); producer Iain Smith (Mad Max: Fury Road).
- PROFESSIONAL: Students are taught by experienced filmmakers. Films are made on built sets, shot on professional level cameras, recorded on professional digital recorders, edited on Avid and in most terms given a professional dub.
- VISIBLE: LFS Graduation films regularly screen at Oscar and Bafta qualifying festivals, and often at A list festivals such as Cannes La Cinef, BFI London Film Festival, TIFF and Berlinale. LFS graduates are accepted into multiple talent labs and development schemes such as Locarno Academy, Berlinale Talents, Film London Labs, Serial Eyes and other labs all over the world.
- LOCATION: Located in the heart of London’s Covent Garden, central London offers LFS students access to social events, culture and probably more films showing for London's nine million inhabitants than in any other capital city.