MA Special Effects for Film & TV

Bucks New University

This MA enables you to focus your studies on the conceptualisation, design and crafting of props, model-making, animatronics design and fabrication technologies. This taught course is industry-focused and will provide opportunities for you to engage with a broad range of skills and techniques required within special effects props production for film and TV and associated creative industries. You’ll delve into the interpretation of scripted and envisioned concepts which will expand your innovative thinking, originality, imagination and develop the practical and problem solving skills to carry the projects through problem-solving to completion. Upon graduation from this course you will have developed the theoretical and conceptual design approaches within your chosen specialism and the relevant practical skills to produce a polished and functional camera ready product to a professional standard suitable for the creative industries. You will be supported in the acquisition of knowledge to enable you to work as a freelancer in a competitive industry, enabling you to forge a successful career within your chosen specialism.

Buckinghamshire New University