Portfolio advice for BA Film & Screen Studies applicants

Portfolio Requirements

For our BA (Hons) Film & Screen Studies course, we’re looking for 12 to 20 examples of your current work that showcases your level and range of achievements. 

Your work may include free-hand sketches or finished works. Notes, sketchbooks and other preparatory work would be welcome. 

• Required: Samples of writing about film or other media such as television or video games. Examples could include a section of an assessed essay you have written, a blog post or a review. Each sample should be up to 500 words and could include analysis of the narrative, visual techniques, and sound design, and/or focus on the wider context within which the work exists.
• Required: A completed Film Production Questionnaire. Please remember to bring this with you.
• Optional: Videos, images, web links or documents demonstrating your interest in/experience of creating visual arts, such as a short film, a series of still photographs or storyboards. There are opportunities throughout the course to engage with creative practice, and while previous experience is not required you are welcome to showcase your creative work and make connections to your writing. 

If it's not practical to bring your work in physically, then the best thing to do is photograph it, add it to a USB or upload it online (remember to note the web address and check it’s not password protected!) – just let us know how we can access your work on it, in case we review your portfolio without you present. 

You'll be invited to share your work with the course team at an Applicant Day. Our Admissions Team will invite you to book your place at one of our Applicant Days after you have applied. 

Use of AI 

Your portfolio must contain your own work. We understand that some of your portfolio may include work created in part or whole by AI. You must acknowledge this by adding ‘AI generated’ to the relevant section(s), stating how you used AI to create images, and adding a link to the original image with the date it was created (where possible).