BA Drama with Film
Royal Holloway, University of London
About this course
BA in Film Studies and Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Entrepreneurship. The course allocates 75% to Drama and Theatre and 25% to Film, with modules covering original creative screenwriting and story adaptation. Students collaborate with directing students in the Department of Media Arts on short films in the Acting for Camera module.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBC (Required subjects: We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall.
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What students say
Based on about 12 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 100%
- Learning opportunities: 94%
- Assessment and feedback: 92%
- Academic support: 96%
- Organisation and management: 81%
- Learning resources: 87%
- Student voice: 85%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 85%
- Left higher education: 15%
What graduates do next
Based on about 22 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 15%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 15%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Media Professionals: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 80%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 70%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 55%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 135 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 3%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 3%
- East Midlands: 3%
- West Midlands: 2%
- East of England: 12%
- London: 38%
- South East: 27%
- South West: 7%
- Wales: 3%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Theatre and Performance Making 1
- Theatre and Text 1
- Theatre and Ideas 1
- Skills Lab
- Screen Narrative: Theory and Practice
- Theatre and Performance Making: Acting for Camera
- Theatre and Culture: Theatre for Young Audiences
- Theatre and Culture: Cultures of Memory
- Dancing Bodies, Global Culture
- Theatre and Ideas: Ideas of Gender and Sexuality
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Tragedy
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Adaptation
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of the Musical
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Acting
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Money
- Theatre and Ideas: The Idea of Casting
- Directing Screen Fiction
- Screen Documentary
- Cinematography
- Creative Interactive Media
- Animation and Visual Effects
- Screenwriting
- Producing Film and Television
- Creative Digital Arts
- Creative Social Media
- Creative Post Production
- Film Theory: Hitchcock and Point of View
- Post-Classical Hollywood
- Television Histories
- Modern European Cinema
- Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
- Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference
- Modernism and Avant Garde Film
- Beyond Bollywood: Indian Cinema in a Transitional Frame
- Digital Aesthetics
- The Creative Industries
- Group Project
- Love, Gender and Sexuality
- Race Relations in Theatre, Film and Television
- Shakespeare
- Naturalist Theatre in Context
- Creative Learning and Theatre
- Physical Theatre
- Shakespeare on Camera
- The Actor's Voice
- Actor Training in a Globalised World
- Final Year Project - Special Study
- Final Year Project - Dissertation
- Taught Dissertation
- Advanced Screenplay- Major Project
- Producing Film and TV
- Transmedia
- Creative Sound Design
- Creativity, Entrepreneurship & Digital Marketing
- Contemporary British Cinema 1
- Television and Digital Cultures
- Film Aesthetics 1: Issues of Interpretation and Evaluation
- Psychoanalysis and Cinema
- Film, Television and the Holocaust
- Media Technologies
- See This Sound - Audiovisuology
- Cinephilia
- 360º Cinema
- Political Cinema: From Eisenstein to Youtube
- The Poetics of Contemporary Television
- Contemporary British Cinema 2
- Film Aesthetics 2
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Drama with Film at Royal Holloway, University of London earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £22,500 after 3 years, £28,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,000 and £34,500. The £28,000 median after five years is £2,000 more than the UK median for Media studies.
What do graduates of BA Drama with Film at Royal Holloway, University of London do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Drama with Film at Royal Holloway, University of London?
100% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Drama with Film at Royal Holloway, University of London?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 128 UCAS points.
Does BA Drama with Film at Royal Holloway, University of London include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Drama with Film at Royal Holloway, University of London?
85% of students continued into their second year, and 15% left higher education.