University degrees: Postgraduate
Course city: Stockholm
The master’s program in film and media with a focus on fiction directed to those who want to specialize and deepen your knowledge in directing for feature films. The program is research preparatory and consists of two years of full-time studies at the advanced level.
The job of a film director is to cinematically tell a story that matters. In the fiction film, it is about communicating about the film’s vision with the others in the film team, interpreting screenplays, leading the work on the recording site, instructing actors and, together with the other film team, implementing the film’s artistic vision. After the recording, the director participates in the process of cutting and sounding the film. The director is a creative artist, an inspiring and responsive supervisor and a driving force in the film’s collaborative process.
Masters program in film and media with a focus on fiction
The Master’s program in film and media is an in-depth and research-preparatory education with a common program structure for all fields. In the education theory courses, students are introduced to different perspectives on knowledge, theory, reflection and artistic research methods.
The field of fiction directing is one of the team orientations within the master program that shapes film teams and collaborates. The students work together in common lab courses where they explore different forms of film, television and new media. You will gain in-depth knowledge of filmmaking as a creative process where the focus will be on both teamwork and individual artistry.
The education also has specialization-specific method courses. As a master student in fiction directing, you get to practice different methods for personal directing and staging (mise-en-scène). You also gain in-depth knowledge of dramaturgy, script analysis and project development. The insights and knowledge that you gain in the orientation-specific courses are applied in the lab courses and film exercises that are done in teams.
During the course, you get many opportunities for meetings over traditional occupational boundaries, for example through elective courses that are common to the institutions of the university. Each student here identifies their need for additional knowledge.
The training will give you specialized knowledge that prepares for research and to work as a director in feature films, drama series and new formats.
