MA Special Effects for Film & TV: Fees & Entry Requirements at Bucks New University, UK

MA Special Effects for Film & TV

UK

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What will I learn?

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.

Which department am I in?

Buckinghamshire New University

Study options

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees
£21,060.00 (22,94,618) per year
This is a fixed fee
Application deadline

Expected August 2027

Start date

October 2026

Venue

High Wycombe Campus

Queen Alexandra Road,

High Wycombe,

Buckinghamshire,

HP11 2JZ, Southern England, United Kingdom

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees
£21,060.00 (22,94,618) per year
This is a provisional fee yet to be approved
Start date

October 2027

Venue

High Wycombe Campus

Queen Alexandra Road,

High Wycombe,

Buckinghamshire,

HP11 2JZ, Southern England, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

A minimum of 2.2 at BA/BSc level in a relevant subject is required. Alternatively, a Higher National Diploma (HND) qualification in relevant subject, with a minimum of 2 years industry experience will be required.Applicants will need to have a suitably appropriate portfolio of work and an undergraduate degree in areas such as Special Effects Make-Up, Animation, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Model- making, Sculptor making, Engineering Product Design, and Manufacturing Design. The key aim of this programme, depending on their specialism, is to deepen students knowledge and specialist skills in all related areas before entering the industry.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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