Take advantage of our connections within the creative industries whilst developing the technical and professional skills you’ll need to break into a competitive field.
With one of Brunel’s film degrees, you can head out into the world of work secure in the knowledge that you have access to multiple avenues of opportunity – and that there is no single route you must follow.
Many of our students go on to take up production and post-production roles in the film and television industries in the UK and beyond: amongst our alumni there are TV presenters, newsreaders, screen actors, production managers, editors, camera operators, and awarding-winning independent filmmakers.
Other graduates of our programmes choose to pursue careers as screenwriters, business analysts for media companies, film journalists, film festival programmers, archivists, teachers, marketing executives, podcasters, and charity workers – and a few even decide to pursue careers as academics. In an uncertain world in which there is no longer such a thing as job for life, you will have the skills you need to adapt, to grow and to succeed.
Your Placement Year
Like most Brunel students, you will have the option of doing a placement year between your second and third year of study. With the support of our award-winning Student Professional Development team, you can secure an internship that is good fit in terms of your professional aspirations. If that’s not for you, though, you’ll still have plenty of opportunities over the course of your studies to hone your career goals and to gain professional experience.
Work Experience While You Study
We encourage students to think expansively in terms of how they might apply their skill set and we have developed close links not only with film and television production companies but also with post-production houses, charities, marketing companies, corporate video producers, and podcasting studios. In recent years our students have completed short placements with Scott Free Productions (Napoleon), Shondaland (Bridgerton), IMG Sports, the British Red Cross, Rex Brown Studios, NextShoot, Antonia Claudie, CaviarTV, and the National Theatre.
Single honour students are required to take the Analysis of Film and Television work experience module. (This is optional for joint honours students). Not only does this allow you to complete a 70-hour placement, but it also creates the space for you to network with a wide range of industry speakers, all of whom are eager to support you in negotiating a career pathway in a sector where who you know so often counts for more than what you know. Recent speakers have included Tina Jones, set decorator who won an Emmy award for her work on Game of Thrones; Victor Chimara, Head of Development at Maroon Films, a leading black-owned production company; and Dominic Sutherland, Managing Director of NextShoot, a video production company serving high-end corporate clients such as the National Gallery, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Louis Vuitton, and Jaguar Land Rover.
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