Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media

Programme Director: Prof SEITER, Ellen Elizabeth

The Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media is a three-year, full-time programme, leading to a terminal degree in creative media production. It is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. The programme equips students with the knowledge and skill essential for careers in the creative sector, media industry and entertainment business.

The programme aims to enrich media workers or university graduates in systematically acquiring broad experiences in film, TV and the digital media, and to independently create high quality works in particular media forms. Also, we will provide opportunities for the specialised technicians trained at other institutions, therefore contributing in an integral manner to foster complementary education among our tertiary institutions.

We offer advanced training to our students through a combination of production and non-production programmes, in the professional, conceptual and aesthetic aspects of film, television, and digital media. Students will gain valuable creative experience with systematic in-class activities, which are grounded on the knowledge structure of audio-visual production. Students will produce traditional and innovative works and develop their conceptual, aesthetic and technical abilities in various media channels.

The programme aims to train students to be media professionals with artistic sense, social responsibility, and international vision. Some of our students' career goals are to be producers, directors, screenwriters, or other professional positions in the media industry.  Graduates with an MFA degree are also eligible to take up teaching posts at college level in certain higher education institutions.

Students are required to take at least 19 courses (57 units) in order to obtain the necessary training to take up their thesis project, which bears another 9 units, summing up to a total of 66 units for the entire study in the programme. Normally the programme is offered on a full-time study basis taking three calendar years to complete.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

Requirements

^ In fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts (MFA), the MFA Programme will recognize only TWO electives from courses offered by the MA in Communication, MA in Producing for Film, TV and New Media (MAFTNM) and MSocSc in Media Management in the whole course of the students' study.