New London Centre of Excellence for Media Degree Training Opens
its Doors
Article from The Observer, 1st August, 2010
The London School
of Film, Media & Performance represents substantial
investment by Regent’s College London, the UK’s largest private
College providing BA and MA degrees.
The London School of Film, Media & Performance (LSFMP) has just
welcomed its first twenty students on an
MA Writing for Screen & Stage, an intensive training for a
three-pronged career as a TV, film and theatre writer, and the only
course of its kind in the country.
School is now busy interviewing candidates for three new degree
courses starting in September:
BA (Hons) Screenwriting & Producing,
BA (Hons) Creative Industries, and
BA (Hons) Acting & Global Theatre. A
Foundation Course in Acting also starts in September.
Hands-on Media Training
The School’s central ethos is that the modern media degree is no
longer a traditional study of culture and society. It must be an
intensive hands-on training for a wide, fast-growing and
rapidly-changing industry, and it must look to that industry to
guide and shape the development of the creative individuals and
leaders of tomorrow.
So in designing each degree, LSFMP has asked key industry
personnel the same question: “If you were doing your degree course
now, what do you believe it should contain?” It has then built the
degrees around the answers to that question.
The result is that all LSFMP degrees are backed by commendations
from successful industry leaders and practitioners at the top of
their creative fields.
Industry Links
The BA degrees include an industry placement as well as industry
and professional skills modules. In addition, the School’s industry
links have facilitated a unique feature: core areas of some
third-year work is actually commissioned and evaluated by companies
looking for new projects and ideas.
So at a stroke, LSFMP has achieved what industry has long
demanded: training that teaches the skills today’s companies
need.
Naturally all this is made easier by the School’s unique
location in central London, surrounded by theatres, TV
and film
production companies, new-design projects and creative
institutions.
One-to-one Tuition
Unlike some public sector universities - dogged by lack of
funding, oversized classes, and few tutor contact hours - LSFMP
students enjoy small-group and one-to-one tuition, in some cases
for twice the tuition hours of public sector counterparts.
Experience has shown that these study methods develop students’
creative skills, expertise and confidence far faster.
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