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Film production and photography

November 2023

  • David Mayer in his study with his dog Billy

    Other lives
    David Mayer obituary

    Other lives: Professor of drama who published extensively about Victorian and Edwardian theatre and early cinema

September 2023

  • Uni Guide 2024 "Subject Tables"

    University Guide 2024
    Best UK universities for film production & photography – league table

    The study of all aspects of film making and of the creation of still images on photographic film or plates

January 2023

  • Brian Tufano in the 1990s, the decade in which he came into his own in cinematic work.

    Brian Tufano obituary

    Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

September 2022

  • Guardian University Guide 2023  Online 01 Holding Image

    University Guide 2023
    Best UK universities for film production & photography – league table

    The study of all aspects of film making and of the creation of still images on photographic film or plates

September 2020

  • An alien love story … the young stars of 7 Hours on Earth

    The aliens have landed! The school that made its own feature film

  • Man taking a photograph of migrating starlings at sunset

    University Guide 2024
    University subject profile: film production and photography

June 2019

  • Film and photography are tough industries to crack, but opportunities are out there.

    University Guide 2020
    University subject profile: film production and photography

    The study of all aspects of filmmaking and the creation of still images on photographic film or plates

March 2019

  • Programme Name: Peaky Blinders IV - TX: n/a - Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders.

    Peaky Blinders writer plans £100m film studio in Midlands

    Steven Knight says the 40-acre site near Birmingham will help the UK meet high demand from production companies

January 2017

  • director Danny Boyle, right, with actors Ewan McGregor and Ewan Bremner filming T2 Trainspotting in Edinburgh.

    Star Wars and Trainspotting sequels help UK film production break records

    Some 200 movie shoots spent £1.6bn in Britain in 2016, a rise of 13% on the previous year, reveal new BFI statistics

October 2016

  • Lyon's Corner House, 1941 © [copyright] Wolf Suschitzky.

    Wolfgang Suschitzky obituary

    Photographer and cinematographer who captured 30s London and shot Get Carter

July 2016

  • TOPSHOTS An employee of the Bodet Company carries a clock on March 26, 2014 at the plant of Trementines, western France. The Bodet company manufactures clocks since 1868 for churches, stations, sports halls and employs 630 workers in France. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARDJEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images

    Dear Jeremy
    Dear Jeremy – your work problems solved

  • Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike

    Matthew McConaughey to teach film class at University of Texas

March 2016

  • Laia Costa Victoria.

    How Sebastian Schipper created a one take thriller that surpassed Hitchcock

  • Exterior of National Media Museum, Bradford

    National Media Museum’s reach is not limited by its Bradford location

October 2015

  • Thoughtful and shy ... Roger Deakins.

    Roger Deakins: 'the opposite of a Hollywood person' ... with 12 Oscar nominations to his name

    The much-lauded cinematographer of Sicario – as well as almost every Coen brothers film going – just might be the man to bring old-school values back to the blockbuster

May 2015

  • papadopoulos and sons poster

    How I self-distributed my feature film

    Marcus Markou
  • School students part in an art lesson in Birmingham. 'Schoold have had to massively reduce the teach

    Osborne’s delight at Star Wars undermined by stance on art subjects

February 2015

  • Film production and photography postgraduate and master's courses in 2015

    The study of all aspects of film making and of the creation of still images on photographic film or plates

August 2014

  • Fiery-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus pectoralis).

    GrrlScientist
    Secrets of animal camouflage research

    GrrlScientist: This interesting video, courtesy of the BBSRC and Project Nightjar, reveals the secrets of animal camouflage research.
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