MFA Video Game & Media Composition
$19950
Part Time - 36 Months (15 hours/week)
Part Time - 48 Months (8 hours/week)
During this comprehensive Master of Fine Arts degree course, you will cover the skills taught in both our Composing for Video Games and Professional Media Composition degree courses.
Video games are now the largest single sector in the entertainment industry, closely followed by television. We train you to write for both in this wide ranging, challenging, creative and technical preparation to enter the industry as a composer of all types of composition.
On this course, you will learn:
- To write in a wide variety of styles, using different compositional techniques.
- Different ways of creating an interactive video game experience, allowing the score to respond seamlessly to gameplay.
- A wide variety of market sectors from animation to trailers, documentary to feature films.
- To use FMOD and WWise to implement your music interactively in fully functional Unity games, many specially licenced for the course, including commercial releases.
- About music business, copyright, how to find work, how to pitch, create a demo reel and develop a career.
- The technical and creative aspects of writing to picture, spotting a film, and working with hitpoints and markers.
I chose ThinkSpace because ThinkSpace is flexible, affordable as well as really forward thinking.
I love that ThinkSpace only hires people that are actively working in the industry.
Teaching Staff
Our tutors are all current working professionals, many involved at the highest level in the business.
The tutors who will be giving you individual feedback, either in writing or at the student workshops, have composing and orchestration credits including:
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Need for Speed
- SimCity
- Bioshock 2
- Mass Effect 3
- Batman: Arkham Origins and hundreds more.
They’ve worked for every major film and game studio and networks and production companies including Blizzard, Nintendo, Capcom, Frontier, Dambusters Studios, 2K Games and many others.
Student Stories
Our recent students have gone on to work at Mojang, Creative Assembly, Frontier, Dam Busters and many more. Our graduates have worked on the score for Spiderman PS4 and scored the latest Battlefield 1 Apocalypse trailer.
Full Time - 24 Months (30 hours/week)
Part Time - 36 Months (15 hours/week)
Part Time - 48 Months (8 hours/week)
Finance
Students will be required to pay a deposit on enrolling. For more information on this, visit the Student Finance page.
postgraduate@thinkspaceeducation.com
To find out more about the application process, visit the Applications page.
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Frequently Asked Questions
That’s how most of our future students start: an informal conversation about where you are and where you want to be. No pressure, just getting to know you and how we might be able to help.
Get in touch with Tim Johnson the course manager (and film composer).