MA Immersive Media

About this course

Exploring, experimenting and creating experiences and applications in augmented, extended, mixed and virtual realities, installation, performance, and sensor-based media.

• This Immersive Media postgraduate course will explore storytelling, experience design and development with immersive and creative technology
• Taught in a city with a long history of innovation across games, film and creative technology (Immersive Economy Report, 2019)
• Dedicated lab spaces and access to a range of production facilities across the Screen School and the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Including a range of specialist VR, AR and MR development and display (headsets, spectacles, projection) technologies
• Software workshops include, Unreal, Unity, Blender, Gravity Sketch, Isadora, TouchDesigner and Adobe Creative Suite... though we are software agnostic and story first
• A Collaborative Project run in partnership with industry partners in the creative media sector, to develop real world projects
• Looking at the application of immersive content and technology across a range of sectors

"Immersive experiences require novel narrative mechanisms and new language of production... The best technology will not produce the change needed without equal excellence in content production and understanding of immersion as a narrative form."

-Creative Industries Review, 2017

In 2019, a research symposium at the Redmonds Building, home of Liverpool Screen School and the MA Immersive Media programme, explored how researchers, developers and practitioners are approaching the emerging mediums of virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality for storytelling. The day included eight panels exploring the diverse ways in which people are engaging with new technologies and speakers included creative writers, theatre makers, game developers, filmmakers, artists, creative coders and a range of disciplines to discuss the immersive storytelling experiences research symposium.

Companies included Marshmallow Laser Feast, Draw and Code, Limbik Theatre, Pilot Theatre, Boom Clap Play, Kinicho, Production Park and Charisma.ai.

"We are the last generation to know a blank space."

-Dave Lorenzini (Draw & Code), talking to students about the future of XR, 2022.

• Hons degree 2:2 or above (from art, media, animation, digital design, computer science, performing arts, graphic design, games, UX)
• an academic reference

Applicants who demonstrate professional skills and evidence of achievement in a related area without formal qualifications may also be considered. A CV should be provided at the point of application.

Employability

Further your career prospects

LJMU has an excellent employability record with 96% (HESA 2018) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.

This degree is aimed at preparing graduates for creative and technical roles in games, marketing, film, design and the arts sector. Successful and motivated graduates of the programme will also receive opportunities to progress to PhD study to develop new and exciting technologies.