We encourage you to find individual approaches through directing work in documentary, drama or experimental film. Work which challenges filmic norms and boundaries is nurtured through exercises and short films in which you will find your own creative identities and perfect skills which help you get work in the industry on graduation. Practical experience in directing, camerawork, sound and editing is gained in order to explore how every aspect of film can be a means of creative expression. We work very much as a film community across years and encourage cross-fertilisation between different technologies and conventions. We believe that you will learn the creativity necessary to enter the film and television industries with a freshness of approach both to changing technologies and the cinematic ideas that they embrace. You will benefit from workshops and masterclasses from internal and visiting staff, who all work and exhibit internationally in film and television, and from sessions provided by Edinburgh College of Art's (ECA) Scottish Documentary Institute. Our students graduate primarily as directors, having made several films during their time at ECA, but we also encourage all to have a secondary practical skill to help gain work in the industry. Integrated with the practical studio work, Design & Screen Cultures courses provide a contextual and theoretical understanding of the holistic nature of contemporary screen studies. We aim to develop cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to people and culture that equip you to design excellence into people's lives. This is about both designing artefacts and understanding the world around us. Our design vision and ideas lie within a global framework of design and how people wish to live their lives. We encourage you to articulate innovative and sustainable creative visions and identities. We educate problem-solvers and opportunity-seekers. Our graduates will become designers, thinkers and makers who will positively shape the world.