Programme Overview
Course Structure
Programme Outcomes
Employability
Admission Requirements
Fees & Financial Aid

Programme Overview
Course Structure
Programme Outcomes
Employability
Admission Requirements
Fees & Financial Aid

Degree: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Film and Media Production (Awarded by Arts University Bournemouth)
Programme duration: 3 years (Full-time)
Location: BUV Campus, Ecopark, Hanoi
Timetable: Students’ timetables will be sent to BUV students’ emails prior to the commencement date of each semester.

Opportunities to produce industry-standard film and media from the 1st semester

Faculty consists of experienced professionals

Programme deeply integrated with the industry

World-class facilities and equipment for practical studies

Practical Focus: Collaborative film and media production in each semester of each year.
High Quality Education: Taught by experienced professionals, each student gains the skills and know-how to work confidently in Vietnam or anywhere in the world.
Specialisation: As well as all round principles and practice, each student will have the opportunity to develop their choice of specialization.
Industry Standard Showreels: Each student will leave with a portfolio of industry standard quality with which to secure employment post-graduation.
Real World Connections. The programme will connect students with film and media industries professionals throughout the three years and will promote its graduates and their works directly to industry and at international film festivals.

This programme is subject to validation.

Course Structure

Year 1

Professional Media Production in Context: Narrative forms – Storytelling in Practice – Genre

Techniques and Processes 1: Image Capture and Image Generation

Sound and Vision 1: Audio Capture and Post Production

Design to Production 1: Formal Production Conventions (news, information, advertising, educative) Live Action and Chromakey

Team Processes, Pipelines and Workflows

Previsualisation

Techniques and Processes 2: Production Design and Planning

Design to Production 2: Music Video Production and Pixellation Projects

Year 2

Research Practices: Intellectual Property, Legalities and Ethics (Joint Module with VFX)

Integrating Live Action and Visual Effects

Cinematography 1: Lighting Camera Techniques

Design to Production 3: Digital Set Extensions, Motion Capture and Chromakey Projects

Working with Actors, Presenters and Performers 1

Directing: Single and Multi-Camera Conventions

Sound and Vision 2: Editing and Post-Production

Design to Production 4: Creating Comedy

Year 3

Collaborative Design 1: Final Productions – Ideation, Tests, Preparation

Cinematography 2: Special Effects

Sound and Vision 3: Editing and Post-Production

Design to Production 5: Documentary and Factual Entertainment

Collaborative Design: Final Productions 2. Ideation, Tests, Preparation.

Working with Actors, Presenters and Performers 2

Sound and Vision 4: Sound Design

Design to Production 6: Short Fiction

Professional Media Production in Context: Narrative forms – Storytelling in Practice – Genre

Techniques and Processes 1: Image Capture and Image Generation

Sound and Vision 1: Audio Capture and Post Production

Design to Production 1: Formal Production Conventions (news, information, advertising, educative) Live Action and Chromakey

Team Processes, Pipelines and Workflows

Previsualisation

Techniques and Processes 2: Production Design and Planning

Design to Production 2: Music Video Production and Pixellation Projects

In this module, students will understand the historical and contemporary development of the variety of narrative forms and genres that they will encounter through the programme. They will learn the essentials of how to progress their own story telling practice from word to still image to moving audio visual media production. This ‘know-how’ will be contextualised with ‘know-why’ as students gain understanding of the progression of the practice to its contemporary forms.

Research Practices: Intellectual Property, Legalities and Ethics (Joint Module with VFX)

Integrating Live Action and Visual Effects

Cinematography 1: Lighting Camera Techniques

Design to Production 3: Digital Set Extensions, Motion Capture and Chromakey Projects

Working with Actors, Presenters and Performers 1

Directing: Single and Multi-Camera Conventions

Sound and Vision 2: Editing and Post-Production

Design to Production 4: Creating Comedy

In this module, students will learn and practice essential academic and industry relevant research and referencing skills to enable their correct approach to creating and using intellectual property, due legal and ethical diligence, including risk assessment/health and safety, diversity related issues and best environmental practice.

Collaborative Design 1: Final Productions – Ideation, Tests, Preparation

Cinematography 2: Special Effects

Sound and Vision 3: Editing and Post-Production

Design to Production 5: Documentary and Factual Entertainment

Collaborative Design: Final Productions 2. Ideation, Tests, Preparation.

Working with Actors, Presenters and Performers 2

Sound and Vision 4: Sound Design

Design to Production 6: Short Fiction

In this module, students will collaborate in supervised production groups to develop their original response in studio and on location to the title brief that they have jointly developed in their joint production modules.

Programme Outcomes

Knowledge & Understanding

Graduates will achieve professional level expertise in their respective specialisations and in professional media production in general. They will acquire a coherent and detailed understanding of key aspects, linked to specialist industry practices and their cultural and professional contexts. Graduates will benefit from advice and tuition from expert industry practitioners throughout the programme.

Learning

Through extensive experience graduates will achieve a professional level understanding of all aspects of professional media production. They will understand uncertainty, ambiguity, and the limits of knowledge, as well as the ability to acquire, evaluate and apply new specialist knowledge in pursuit of self-initiated goals within professional media production and the creative industries.

Enquiry

Graduates will be able to select and use appropriate research and experimental methods, to analyse results, and formulate conclusions for future work, in the development of self-initiated and specialist projects. Graduates will gain a full understanding of due diligence: including production ethics, intellectual property, legal issues, technical standards, budgeting and scheduling, risk assessment and health and safety requirements for professional media production.

Analysis

Graduates will gain a nuanced contextual understanding of the variety aesthetic aspects of professional media production types and genres and know how to apply these through practical production. They will be able to critically analyse current debate regarding specialist industry practices and products and formulate context-appropriate positions.

Problem Solving

Graduates will demonstrate the ability to identify and anticipate problems, explore alternative possibilities, and apply the most suitable solutions within sustained specialist projects in Content Creation and VFX.

Communication

Graduates will understand how to collaborate and function correctly within any professional media production team or role. They will be able to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to specialist and non-specialist audiences through appropriate specialist and professional means.

Application

Apply enquiry and analysis methods and techniques to the design, development, and production of industry-level projects, presentations, or written assignments. Graduates will emerge with an industry-ready portfolio in both their specialist area and in general professional media production.

Reflection

Use critical evaluation to form conclusions about practical and contextual issues in a specialist industry practice/s and demonstrate the ability to exercise autonomy, initiative, and self-direction in preparation for a professional role within the creative industries.

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Employability

Future roles for Professional Media Production graduates will include:

Producer, Director,
Lighting-Camera
Sound Recordist
Editor
Sound Designer
Special Effects Technician

Admission Requirements

Academic Requirements

Aged 17 or over. One of the following qualifications:

Vietnamese High School Diploma and Pathway to University Programme
Pass 2 subjects at Advanced GCE (A-Level)
An access programme passed at the required QAA-recognised standard for entry to Higher Education
An award of the European Baccalaureate Diploma, with at least 60 percent overall; English at 60 percent
An award of the International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 24 points; English at 4 points.

English Language Requirements

One of the following:

A proficiency test within the last 2 years:

IELTS (non UKVI): 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each component; or
TOEFL IBT: Listening: 17; Speaking: 20; Reading: 18; Writing: 17

A proficiency test within the last 5 years:

International Baccalaureate (taught in English) Pass in English B at Standard Level grade 5 or High Level grade 4; or
IGCSE English: IGCSE English as a first or second language: Grade C; or
Cambridge International English GCE O-Level/GCSE: English Language grade A – C

Fees & Financial Aid

Fees Scholarships & Financial Aid

Fees

Tuition fee information for students enrolling from January 2025:

	Tuition Fee
Pathway to University Programme	VND 104,440,000
Degree*	VND 1,040,772,000
Total Tuition Fee	VND 1,145,212,000

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* Listed fee covers the full programme

Tuition Fee & Fee Policy

Scholarships & Financial Aid

The British University Vietnam (BUV) scholarship fund was established in 2018 with the goal of giving students the opportunity to study UK undergraduate and graduate programmes in an international learning environment. With an aim to improve and increase accessibility to high-quality education, BUV has officially launched the fund valued at 150 billion VND in 2024 with hundreds of scholarships and financial aid made available.

You can visit our Scholarship page to find out more and check your eligibility.

BA (Hons) Film and Media Production

Programme Overview