FV3S30 - Career and Exhibition 01 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 0

Associated Module Information

Module Code: FV3S30
Module Title: Career and Exhibition
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Film and TV
Faculty Sub Group: Film and TV
Module Leader: Emyr Jenkins
Module Team: Emyr Jenkins, Joseph Sudlow, Gwyneth Moore
First Intended Intake: SEP 2024 Final Year of Intake: 2029
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 6
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100441 - film production
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 0
Valid From 01 Sep 2024
Valid To 31 Aug 2026

Module Aims

Support students in recognising their own skills and aptitude and developing their personal ambitions to facilitate them achieving their immediate career goals. 

Create marketing materials that will promote every student in the best light possible to achieve the above aims. 

Encourage a collective approach to promotion, distribution and exhibition of their films to a wider audience through film festival and other release methods. 

Content Summary

Having just completed their final films in Advanced Filmmaking, this module will springboard off those films and gear them up to release and promote their films in their final exhibition showcase and wider into festivals. Alongside this, the module prepares the student for the world of work by exploring the market they will be entering, by mapping individual professional ambitions to the marketplace and by helping students create a set of marketing tools, which they can use to promote themselves. These include: 

  • Analysis of the needs of the contemporary Film & TV industry and their prospective role within it 

  • Planning for Future Career Development. 

  • Interview, CV and cover letter training, mock job interviews and constructive and personalised feedback from USW Careers team. 

  • Creation of personal marketing materials that are considered current (including but not limited to professional headshots, showreels, and a professional social media presence);). 

  • The research of potential employment (locally or in the student’s home area) and opportunities to apply for business start-up funding and support and how to maximise them. 

  • Understanding basic legislation for a freelancer/self-employment. 

  • An overview of self-employment within the freelance work environment. 

 This module is a condensed 6-week module. 

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 12
Seminar 12
Tutorials 1
Independent Study 100
Directed Study (including online independent learning) 75
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Critically analyse the state of the current film and television and wider media industries, recognising entry level roles within them, with a view to the student orientating themselves for the world of work.
LO2 Create a variety of self-promotion and film-promotion materials that are informed, appropriate and professionally acceptable.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Professional Discussions 1 Students will take part in an interview where they will present a portfolio of personal promotion work, 15 N/A 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Professional Discussions 1

Reading List

Gallagher M. (2016) Breaking Into UK Film & TV Drama (callsheet.co.uk) Quinn E & Counihan J (2006) The Pitch (Faber & Faber) 

Caldwell S (2005) Jumpstart Your Awesome Film Production Company (Allworth Press) 

Light H E (2017) Hollywood Drive - Break In Hang In & Make It In The Entertainment Industry (Routledge) Levinson L. (2007) Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents Oxford: Focal Press. 

Cottrell S. (2010) Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. 2nd edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.