BA (Hons) Media Production

A Foundation Year is available on this course.

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Key Information

Accreditations:

International Moving Image Society (IMIS)

Duration and delivery: 3 years full-time with a 4-week placement, or 4 years full-time with a 30week placement

Entry requirements: 104 - 120 tariff points

Required subjects: None

If English is not your first language: IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component or equivalent

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UCAS code PH10

Are you an innovative content creator and storyteller with a passion for media, looking to develop your creative, technical and practical skills to become a leader in media production? On this course, you will have the opportunity to produce a range of exciting and diverse media projects. You will have access to professional equipment and support from lecturers who are industry experts and leaders in their field of research.

Media Skills

You’ll develop a range of skills making you highly employable across the media sector including filmmaking, audio production, scriptwriting, photography, digital media design and immersive media. Collaboration and creativity are at the heart of this course and you’ll learn through group and individual work using industry-standard equipment and facilities to produce innovative work in new and traditional media. Your development as a media practitioner is always industry focused and underpinned by research and reflection. In your final year, you will have the opportunity to specialise in your area of interest, and to create a graduate project that showcases your skills to future employers.

Professional placement

One of the ways we help you position yourself in relation to this fast-paced, technologically driven industry is the placement experience. You can complete either a four- or 30-week placement between the second and third year of your degree, that will prepare you for your career ahead, particularly helping you to network and build on your professionalism. The end goal being for you to become a highly employable media problem solver that would add value to any space.

Final year project

In your final year you’ll be able to demonstrate innovation through developing and delivering your Graduate Production Project. Here you decide the mix and range of media outputs to create and the industry context they sit within. This will give you a calling card to aid your entry into – and success within –a media career.

If you’ve got a passion for creating in general, the BA (Hons) Media Production course is for you. The variety of modules is definitely the standout element of the course, in my opinion.

Nick Zerafa, student