Media Production BA(Hons)

You'll start developing the skills you'll need to succeed from the very beginning, as you immerse yourself in the contexts and practices of the current media production and content creation landscape. You'll explore key concepts around visual and audio production, creative problem-solving and professional practice.

Modules

Creative Problem Solving

You'll learn how to find innovative solutions to challenges by exploring the problem-solving tools, methods and concepts used in the creative industries.

Bootcamp

This module will introduce you to key creative and technical skills, focusing on camera, lighting, sound and editing. Reflecting industry, you'll also discover the art of collaborative practice.

Multimedia Methods

You'll develop skills in audio, video, still images and social networking, learning how to select and apply these appropriately with an awareness of relevant legal and ethical considerations.

Professional Practice

You'll learn the professional practice skills needed to build a career in the creative industries. This includes presenting techniques and public speaking, self-promotion, ways of securing work placements and working as a freelancer.

Origins

You’ll discover the heart of the story with a short-form documentary piece, discovering and using fundamental storytelling and production skills to shoot and edit an engaging short piece of non-fictional content. 

The Media Landscape

This module will support you to study and debate the key trends and rules which are shaping the working landscape for media professionals, while becoming a more effective academic researcher and writer. 

In year two, you'll develop and hone your film creation, art direction and copywriting skills while learning the business of content creation. In our Work Placement module, you'll get the opportunity to work alongside industry partners on exciting live briefs or secure your own placement within an existing business.

Modules

Media Lab

You will develop your creative skills further through engaging and experimenting with the capabilities of media technologies and platforms for media production.

Magazine Content and Creation

You’ll work as part of an editorial team to conceive, plan and create a new magazine with digital and print editions, built on a business plan to prove its viability in the media marketplace. 

Filmmaking 2: Editing & Post-production

Following the Filmmaking 1 module, you'll continue to develop your filmmaking skills with a focus on editing and post-production.

Collaboration

Working as part of a team, you'll work on 'Challenge Briefs' that reflect the sort of assignments you could expect to be working on in industry. Developing your 'soft skills', like communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and leadership, you'll sharpen your ability to work well as part of a group to produce outstanding work.

Advanced Multimedia Methods

You’ll develop your multimedia storytelling skills and technical confidence within a newsroom environment which challenges you increasingly to collaborate in a range of creative and organisational contexts.

The Global Creative

This module is designed to bring a diverse range of voices and experiences from media practitioners working and creating across the world into the course, giving you a thorough understanding of the industry and employment pathways that are open to you as practitioners.

Why study a Sandwich Year route? 

You can choose to take an optional Sandwich Year, which means you'll spend a year between your second and third year on placement in industry, developing your business or freelance portfolio* or studying abroad. Choosing this route will enhance your industry experience and skills while studying. 

How you’ll study in your Sandwich Year 

Supported by an employer if you're working in industry, or the University if you've opted for the self-employment route*, you'll develop your industry skills and understanding of the workplace.

If you study abroad, you'll gain new perspectives on your subject, gain in confidence and independence.

Throughout this year, you'll develop a portfolio of work that includes a critical self-reflection on what has been learned from the experience. You'll be required to evidence your experiences, the skills you've learned and your professional growth.

*Self-employment options are only available for UK students, due to Visa requirements

Your final year is all about creating a career-launching portfolio. You'll work collaboratively and individually on content outputs and contribute to a digital multimedia production project. You'll also sharpen your professional and business development skills, so you're all set to start making a living from your practice.

Modules

Dissertation

You’ll complete an independent extended piece of written work on an area of Media Production of your choosing.

The Multimedia Newsroom

In preparation for your final transition to the real world of the news media and related fields, you'll produce a digital multimedia publication.

Future Skills

You'll cultivate your professional journey, developing an understanding of your skills in the context of industry and employment. You'll be equipped with the confidence to articulate your knowledge and abilities, and evidence how you can apply them to real world challenges.

Working on a collaborative or solo project, you'll deliver real results, whether that's a profit on some seed funding, a professional portfolio of work, or a solution to a real-world challenge from industry.

Final Year Portfolio

For your final module, you'll produce a professional portfolio that showcases your skills and knowledge across multiple channels and media.

Why study an Integrated Foundation Year route? 

If you’re taking on a new subject that you haven’t studied in depth before, have been out of education for a while or have a non-standard educational background then an Integrated Foundation Year degree may be the right choice for you. It is a four-year degree with an Integrated Foundation Year to start, which allows you to explore the primary elements of your subject before progressing on to the remaining three years of the BA(Hons) degree. 

What you'll study in your Foundation year

If you choose this pathway, you'll study five core modules in your Foundation year. These are all designed to help you explore the foundational elements of your subject. You'll gain relevant technical skills, learn to experiment and take risks, develop an understanding of professional practice, have opportunities to work across disciplines and collaborate with other students on live project briefs. 

Modules

Explore

You'll begin your foundation year by working collaboratively with others to explore themes of the future. You'll take risks, experiment through play and be supported to break through barriers.

Technique

You'll take subject-specific workshops and develop essential technical and practical skills in your area of study. You'll also enhance your analytical and organisational abilities.

Apply

You'll work with your peer group to think beyond discipline by addressing a societal or global issue. You'll then showcase your work to your peers and deliver an accompanying evaluation of your process.

Industry

You'll enhance your creative and practical skills in your subject specialism by responding to typical industry briefs, underpinned by focused research and experiments. You'll also gain industry insights through guest lectures and workshops.

Launch

You'll develop your unique identity in your specialism through the production of a self-initiated body of work. Your final project will be the bridge to your next year, fully supported by evaluative reviews and critical analysis of the work you have created.

After the Foundation year, you progress into Year One of the full three-year degree, equipped with a deeper knowledge of your subject, a clear understanding of your strengths, and develop a practical and technical skillset and the confidence to excel in your chosen subject. 

The Integrated Foundation Year pathway for this course is new for entry year 2023 and subject to validation.