Film courses

Who are you? David. What is your job title? Senior lecturer in film. One of the most exciting things about working at Middlesex is the students. They're always coming up with really innovative, challenging ideas.

I mean, it's almost an honour to guide them through the process of realising their vision. The students are able to access a wide range of equipment, really high - end camera stuff, and also great post -production facilities.

A number of editing suites, professional sound, colour grading suites. So the students have all of the equipment and the facilities to make the best work that they possibly can. Students in the course of the programme learn a lot of soft skills.

They begin pitching projects to their classmates and to their tutors as early as the first term and term one. So by the time they get to third year and they're pitching bigger projects, they're expert at and selling their ideas.

We've got an industry and collaboration strand where we have guest speakers. This year we had David Yates, you know, famous for his four Harry Potter films. They get a lot of opportunities, I think, to get a taste of what the business looks like and what it feels like when you're in it.

Every year, and we're in that process right now, we get the students in to show the rough cuts of their films. With great nervousness, they screen them to all of their peers and to all of their tutors and then they submit themselves to feedback.

And I think the students really like exercising their analytical skills, you know, in critiquing each other's work. They're really all in it together. They're all trying to help each other make the best work.

And that's a really, really, I think, really great feeling.