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Film and Visual Effects

On the Film and Visual Effects courses at USW, you'll discover countless opportunities to build industry experience, networks and connections to help you transition from student to creative professional.

Film and Visual Effects

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92% of USW BA (Hons) Visual Effects and Motion Graphics students were satisfied with their course.

NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 2024

 

PARTNERSHIPS AND INDUSTRY 

We hold strong links with major film and TV industry employers, including Bad Wolf, the production company behind the critically acclaimed dramas His Dark Materials, Industry, and A Discovery of Witches.  

Our partnership with Screen Alliance Wales (SAW) means our students can continue to access set visits, industry placements, and even paid employment. We have strong links with global VFX studios, including ILM, DNEG and Framestore, as well as local studios such as Bait Studios, providing direct links to industry. BA Film is accredited by ScreenSkills, which indicates that it’s recognised by industry for excellence.

SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE

Many of our courses allow you to work towards industry-recognised sustainability training meaning you’ll be considering and creating content that supports the industry’s vision for a climate-conscious future.

 

 

INDUSTRY STANDARD FACILITIES 

Our creative campus houses industry-standard film facilities, including dedicated, fully equipped HD film studios complete with lighting rigs, green screen and motion capture facilities, a black box studio, Avid HD and Adobe editing suites, Pro Tools sound editing and dubbing suite, and excellent screening facilities.  

As part of your course, you can access our on-campus media stores – housing ready-to-use kit that can be rented for free. By providing state of the art industry level facilities and equipment, we provide hands-on industry focused training and teaching to make sure you are studio ready, but also to let you realise your creative ideas. 

 

AWARD-WINNING GRADUATES 

Film has been taught at the University for over 50 years, making us one of the most established and successful film schools in the UK. Over this time, many of our graduates have gone on to forge successful careers throughout the global film, television and media industries from Hollywood to Bollywood. 

Staff, students and graduates have won many prizes over the years, all over the world. Our graduates have forged successful international careers, including multi award-winning director, Asif Kapadia, and BAFTA-winning directors, Georgi Banks-Davies and Gareth Evans. In 2021, over 20 graduates from USW worked on films that were nominated for Academy Awards. 

Entry requirements

USW take all aspects of an application into consideration and you may receive a personalised offer based on your predicted grades.

Please make sure you check the entry requirements for your course on UCAS before you apply.

Open days

Our next undergraduate open day will be:

30.11.24

Get to know USW

At a USW open day, you’ll have the chance to explore our campuses, meet academic staff and current students, take part in interactive activities related to your course, learn about life at USW, take tours of the accommodation and facilities, and get lots of advice around support, money, careers and study options.

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More dates

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