Course overview
From the outset, this course aims to develop your technical, creative, reflective and analytical abilities, to give you a thorough grounding in current and emerging media production technologies, ways of working and contemporary professional practice. You can also gain highly valuable and transferrable project management and professional skills needed in this ever-expanding industry.
- Media Production is about developing real world skills in many different types of production from making: films, live broadcast TV, radio, podcasts, 360 video, immersive experiences, photography, websites, and social media content.
- Our current links with local, regional, national media industries, including companies like The Walt Disney Company, ITV and Aardman Animations, can provide opportunities for location work, site visits and talks by visiting media professionals, together with live projects and a professional experience scheme (subject to availability)2. In short, you’ll be taught to tell interesting stories and distribute those stories to the largest possible audience.
- You will have opportunities for professional experience and live projects, which have, in the past, included student-industry collaboration with Regional BBC, Creative City, Rolls-Royce and BBC3 (subject to availability, application and additional costs)2.
Why you should study this course
- Opportunity to access high standard professional media equipment via our Media Loan Shop, including media equipment, such as Blackmagic and Sony cameras (subject to availability)
- Opportunity to meet experts in new media and traditional media at our series of screenings and masterclasses with past guest speakers including media practitioners, filmmakers, and graduates from the course (subject to availability).
- You may have opportunities to learn and work on projects with students from other courses in the School of Media and Performing Arts. These collaborative opportunities can be a defining feature of your learning experience and are designed to help place you in a more advantages position in developing your skills and employability on graduating
- Opportunity to study abroad at one of our many international collaborators during a placement year2, which have included, in the past, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (ZUMC) in China and Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France (subject to availability, competitive application, meeting visa requirements and additional costs).
- Visit our Media Production Instagram to get an insight into this course.
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