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MA Production Management

Learn to understand and manage the entire production process, from planning and pre-visualisation, through to working on location and overseeing creative post-production work.

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This is an exciting new course that is currently being developed. This page will be updated with more information in January 2022. Please register your interest and we will email you when the course is open for applications. 

Why study MA Production Management at BU?

  • Learn from media professionals who have expertise and experience of working in the industry
  • Work with the producing, directing, scriptwriting, cinematography sound and editing students to develop your project management skills and foster a network of creative collaborators
  • Benefit from regular guest speakers
  • Work across multiple projects to build your CV and hone your skills for an area of the industry looking for fresh talent
  • Take advantage of opportunities with RedBalloon, an award-winning professional production unit based in the Faculty of Media and Communication. 

See what it's like to study at the Talbot Campus

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Poole Gateway Building offers 5,000 square metres of space, including the latest professional-level facilities featuring two multi-camera TV studios which equipped with 4K (Ultra High Definition) cameras, a film studio and sound stage
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Talbot Campus is where you'll find facilities such as The Sir Michael Cobham Library, the Student Centre (where our Students' Union offices are based), the £22 million Fusion Building and the brand new Poole Gateway Building
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Inside the Fusion Building, which features 27 seminar rooms, three lecture theatres, research space, a 24-station PC laboratory, rooftop terraces and numerous catering facilities, topped with a glass-domed roof. The building has achieved an Energy Performance Certificate rating of A and BREEAM Excellent; it features a range of the latest technologies designed to reduce its environmental impact.

Key information

Next start date:

September 2022

Location:

Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus

Duration:

1 year full-time

Your application

For MA Production Management, we are looking for applicants who:

  • Have some work experience within a media environment, ideally within production
  • Display the ambition, commitment, and team working skills required to work in their chosen media production specialism
  • Are creative and enthusiastic
  • Can adapt to varying demands/workloads
  • Are organised, detail-oriented and flexible.

Costs and fees

You can find full information about the deposits required and how to pay your fees in our postgraduate fees and funding section, including details of the Postgraduate Loan (subject to fee status).

All fees are quoted in pounds sterling and are per year. Fees quoted are for tuition only unless stated otherwise. Your tuition fees will be the same for each year of your course.

Our staff

On this course you will be taught by staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This could include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners and research students, many of whom are actively engaged in research and/or professional practice which is integrated into the teaching of this course. Please note that teaching staff can change.

Statistics shown throughout this page are taken from Unistats and BU institutional data unless otherwise stated.