The Master of Arts in Film and Creative Media (90 ECTS, NFQ Level 9) is an innovative specialised programme designed for practitioners and new entrants to the creative industries. The programme provides an exciting creative space within which to develop creative skills, knowledge and experience, and build up a strong portfolio of high-quality creative work in and across selected creative areas. This career-focused programme blends focused creative development, leading-edge critical research, and applied creative industries practice.
The creative practices and artefacts learners will typically engage with match the expertise of faculty and our technologies. They are listed below and the list is non-exhaustive:
A feature script
A 30 minute documentary
A Television pilot
A film for multi-platform delivery
An artist' film and video project
An audio/radio project or an album release of a collection of new songwriting
A digital book
A mixed-media gallery installation
A digital dissertation
An artistic event or performance
Theatre staging involving film or creative media
A music video
An ephemeral film project for social media
The programme team encourage you to engage with the faculty should you wish to explore other practices.
Designed for media and arts graduates, and graduates from a wider range of disciplines with a demonstrable interest in creative media, seeking to establish their creative identities and their careers in the creative media industries. This programme is also relevant for existing industry professionals seeking to enhance, update or diversify their skill sets. Learners gain the necessary critical awareness, creative focus and contemporary production skills to advance their career paths. A significant feature of this programme is the exposure to experienced Creative Media and Film practitioners and professionals both from within the DBS faculty alongside external guest lecturers and industry instructors.
Most importantly this programme will facilitate learners’ visual voice to contribute their choice, medium and format of visual expression through the completion of a visual story that contributes to the compendium of stories that record and describe our world for others. This may be an avant-garde, commercial, artistic or traditional treatment. The public dissemination of creative work will place their practice within a community and network of creators that will mediate their practice and place them amongst the work of others.
| Course Location | Dublin |
| Location Postcode | Dublin 2 |
| Course Category | Media Production, Communications & Media |
| Course Qualification | Masters Degree |
| Awarding Body | QQI |
| Awarding Body Details | Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Media Practice |
| Course Duration | Full-time: 1 Year | Part-time: 2 Years |
| Course Fee | €9,100 for one year, and €5,600 per annum for two years for EU students. |
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