Warwick - Film with Television Studies?!

It's a very well respected course yep! It's the top rated Film department in the country and all the students last year had AAA at A level. It's quite competetive to get onto though, and I imagine you need to really enjoy studying films, better to not just do it on a whim.

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OP

thank you all, that helped me a bit, yea
i already got an offer for that subject, was just wondering..
is it really possible to get a job with such an education? i mean wouldnt you have to be related with quentin tarantino to get somewhere?

@swallows: where can i find those film department ratings?

thank you again

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oceane

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A good friend of mine studies it.

There's no practical film production involved at all.

Think of it like an English literature course but instead of books you're analysing films.

You may become a good critic but you won't learn how to make films from this degree (albeit in an indirect way).

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peachmelba

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actually you need to be related to francis ford coppola

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OP

yea..that's possible :tumble:

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OP

wong kar wai rules :proud:

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Byronic

You have to do an English module in the first year, so if you can't write essays about novels or poetry, you'll be screwed.

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dr_fred_bob

Byronic

You have to do an English module in the first year, so if you can't write essays about novels or poetry, you'll be screwed.

I doing a bio degree and still have to write essays - im screwed!

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Byronic You have to do an English module in the first year, so if you can't write essays about novels or poetry, you'll be screwed.

If you can't write essays about novels or poetry you'll be pretty much screwed anyway, as the way in which films are studied is very similar to the way in which literature is studied. Remember it's a purely theoretical course with no practical component whatsoever.

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OP

You have to do an English module in the first year, so if you can't write essays about novels or poetry, you'll be screwed.

If you can't write essays about novels or poetry you'll be pretty much screwed anyway, as the way in which films are studied is very similar to the way in which literature is studied. Remember it's a purely theoretical course with no practical component whatsoever.

essays are okay, but is it really purely theoretical? no production involved at all?
do you guys study that subject? :biggrin:

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Yeah, it's not a practical film-making course. It's like the difference between creative writing and English Lit. Film at many unis is like the former, at Warwick it's like the latter. It mainly consists of studying the films in terms of film theory. You will learn about films from a historical, artistic, national, techincal persepctive (to a degree, not how a camera works or anything like that, but things like camerawork in the film and how it effects the film as a whole, same for editing, mise en scene etc etc).

Basically, it's just like English lit, just substitute full stops and commas for editing, narrative style for mise en scene etc.

I would say if you don't like english lit then don't do it! If you do, do, and mayb think about the Film and Literature degree rather than the straight film studies course.

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OP

i see, thank you, but Film and Literature would include even more lit wouldn't it :wink:

i feel i can't really judge concerning that subject, as i study in germany, and i mean english literature would then again be something else for me

so, if other unis treat it like creative writing, mayb thats better? because i wouldnt want to only analyse films without an own creative process or input i think.. is that absolutely the case at warwick?

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i see, thank you, but Film and Literature would include even more lit wouldn't it

i feel i can't really judge concerning that subject, as i study in germany, and i mean english literature would then again be something else for me

so, if other unis treat it like creative writing, mayb thats better? because i wouldnt want to only analyse films without an own creative process or input i think.. is that absolutely the case at warwick?

It is absolutely the case, you seem reluctant to believe me, lol. If you want to study film from a practical perspective then it would be best to go somewhere else that emphasises that side of it. The only problem is that it tends to be the case that the unis that do offer practical courses aren't so well regarded (but then that depends on how much you read into league tables and how much value you place on them).

I do know that Royal Holloway (part of the University of London) does a degree called Media Arts which is well respected and has decent grade boundaries to get in (I think they want ABB). It focuses on both the practical and the theoretical.

One funny thing is that the Film and Literature course is actually mainly a combination of the Film department and the German department (with a couple from the English department), so many of the literature modules on the Film/Lit degree are actually German modules (lots of Kafka, Fontane, Weiss, Boll etc etc).

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