Our  Moving Image Programme is unfortunately no longer accepting new enrolments and is only available for existing students to continue their studies.

When an existing Moving Image student is ready to enrol onto their next unit please email enquiries@oca.ac.uk.

Study a Moving Image degree with OCA

Our BA (Hons) Moving Image degree is a broad art-focused programme of study, for those wanting to work with film and video. Spanning digital formats, video, and traditional film, this course offers opportunities for exploration and risk-taking whilst helping you define strong critical contexts for your working processes.

You will learn by doing – making films from the beginning of your studies. Throughout your learning journey you will gain an awareness of historic and contemporary moving image practice, as well as visual culture more broadly, and its related social, ethical and philosophical discourses. We encourage a diversity of practices – artists using film, video installation, animation, documentary, abstract film, and script driven narrative cinema – we want you to draw upon, challenge and remap established approaches. Importantly, we encourage ambition and criticality.

You will be supported by staff who possess extensive skills and knowledge and practice as artists, filmmakers and photographers.

Course Structure

The degree is split into eight units: three at Level 1 (HE4), two at Level 2 (HE5), and three at Level 3 (HE6). There are some core units that all students take, many more optional units, and some prerequisites for units at higher levels.

Core Units

Level 1 begins with two core units, Moving Image 1: Setting the Scene, and Moving Image 1: Fact and Fiction. These core units introduce key concepts and skills for the study of moving image, and encourage you to experiment, explore and take risks. They also introduce different ways of exploring your own ideas through moving image, from traditional narrative filmmaking to art house cinema.

Moving into Level 2, there are two core units on offer, Moving Image 2: Moving Image Methodologies, and Moving Image 2: Independent Filmmaking. You can either study both of these core units, or you can select one of the core units and then choose an elective unit to complement your developing interests in moving image practice (see below).

At Level 3, you will study a flexible negotiated programme which consists of three core units. You will develop a major body of practical work in the Moving Image 3: Body of Work unit, alongside which you’ll develop written work that critically contextualises your practice in the Moving Image 3: Contextual Studies unit. In the final unit, Moving Image 3: Sustaining your Practice, you’ll resolve your major body of work, with an emphasis on the professionalism of its presentation, and be tasked with exposing your work to a public audience.

Optional Units

At Level 1, following completion of the core units, you can choose an elective unit within the areas of Moving Image, or from Photography, Visual Culture or Creative Writing:

  • Moving Image 1: Animation
  • Moving Image 1: An Introduction to Film Culture
  • Photography 1: Expressing Your Vision
  • Visual Studies 1: Understanding Visual Culture
  • Writing 1: Scriptwriting

If you have only chosen one of the core units for study at Level 2, you can choose one elective unit to complete your study at this level, choosing from within the areas of Photography or Creative Writing:

  • Photography 2: Digital Image & Culture
  • Writing 2: Moving on With Script Writing

We regularly review our curriculum; therefore, the qualification described on this page – including its availability, its structure, and available units – may change over time. If we make changes to this qualification, we’ll update this page as soon as possible. Once you’ve registered or are studying this qualification, where practicable, we’ll inform you in good time of any upcoming changes. If you’d like to know more about the circumstances in which OCA might make changes to the curriculum, see our Academic Regulations or contact us. This description was last updated on 14 December 2022.

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Foundations

£1025

Per course

Level 1 (HE4)

£4,950

For the level

Level 2 (HE5)

£4,950

For the level

Level 3 (HE6)

£4,950

For the level

Total approximate undergraduate fees

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Foundations

£1,175

Per course

Level 1 (HE4)

£5,670

For the level

Level 2 (HE5)

£5,670

For the level

Level 3 (HE6)

£5,670

For the level

Total approximate undergraduate fees

Breakdown of costs...