Bachelor's degree

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Luton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Learn key production skills to turn your ideas into actual projects.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Luton (Bedfordshire)
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Bedfordshire Institute Of Media And The Creative & Performing Arts, University Of Bedfordshire, Luton Campus, LU1 3JU

Start date

On request

About this course

* UCAS Tariff Score greater than 160, which should include either two A level passes or an AVCE Double Award
* An Access qualification
* Equivalent qualifications such as Irish Leaving Certificate, Scottish Highers, International Baccalaureate or BTEC National Diploma

If you left school or the further education sector without the normal academic qualifications for entry to higher education, the 4-year extended degree route may be suitable for you.

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Subjects

  • Production

Course programme

BA (Hons) Television Production
Mode: full-time


This course enables you to study TV Production with practitioners from the industry in a modern, high-tech environment.

The University now has four different multi-camera television studios:

1. TV Studio including four High Definition JVC GY-HD251 cameras with full studio kit, 3 pedestals, one camcrane jib arm, rolling spider, 2 Autoscript hoods, professional studio floor, lighting rig for 90 lamps, wireless talkback, in-ear presenter talkback, 65 inch multi-view plasma display, Panasonic multi-format high definition live switcher AV HS400A with 8 sources including links between studio, self-op studio and flame memory; engineering switcher with waveform/vector scope monitor, professional Soundcraft desk, professional Strand lighting desk, audience seating, full black cyc, full white cyc, chromakey blue cyc; props store, set store, costume store, male and female dressing rooms with toilets and showers also linked to TV Theatre.

2. TV Theatre including four standard definition cameras (one remote pan and tilt camera), vision-mixer, wired communications, professional lighting rig, stage area, audience seating, full black cyc, four PA speakers.

3. Self-op studio including two cameras, 2 Autoscript hoods, optional chromakey green curtain. Suitable for TV Production, Media Performance, Journalism, interviews, pieces to camera and live links to main TV Studio.

4. White room rehearsal space including 2 cameras, vision-mixer, black curtains, lighting rig.

In addition: ten digital editing suites, newsroom facilities and the radio station, Radio Lab.

You will develop the ability to work in groups and on your own, and explore a wide range of interconnected disciplines including cinematography, audio and visual effects, editing, sound design, lighting, scriptwriting, directing, producing, music videos, live news, live magazine programmes, television drama and radio. You will study units in understanding television and other media, and key themes and issues in television. Your final year includes a major piece of independent work. The course suits people who want to work 'behind the camera' and who enjoy being part of a team.

Collaborations with Media Performance, Journalism and Music Technology students are built in to the course work and assignments, enabling you to work with inter-connected disciplines in a realistic professional environment. Formal and informal opportunities exist for work placements and work experience, and we will encourage you to graduate with a degree, a showreel, a CV that includes work experience. During the course there will be visits from high profile industry speakers, and opportunities to start your own industry contacts book!

With more than 500 UK satellite television channels and 1,000 independent production companies, plus the mainstream broadcasters and the growing number of internet channels, TV is a fast-expanding area. This practical and vocational course will help you prepare to enter this exciting industry, and join the many highly successful University of Bedfordshire graduates currently working on well-known television programmes.

Areas of study include:

  • Multi-camera television
  • Cinematography, Sound Design and Editing effects
  • Location video production
  • Independent special project
  • Radio
  • Key themes and issues in television

Why choose this course?

  • Highly experienced staff, working within the television and media industry
  • Good links within the industry for gaining all-important work experience
  • Access to a multi-million pound Media Arts Centre with 4 different TV studios
  • Collaboration with students from Media Performance, Music Technology and Journalism
  • Student success in the television industry
  • 10 editing suites with latest version of Final Cut Studio, High Definition Editing Suite
  • Radio studio, FM radio station
  • Opportunities to develop a substantial portfolio
  • Develop your craft in a realistic production environment

Career Opportunities

A steady stream of our students enter the TV industry, gaining jobs in a wide variety of television production roles. Other career opportunities include radio, film production, commercials production, advertising, public relations, marketing and teaching.

Teaching/learning methods and strategies

Practical workshops, seminars, lectures, tutorials.

Assessment

You will be assessed through a combination of practical assignments, written essays, portfolios and production paperwork and computer based assessment.

Dissertation/project and research

In year 3 you will have the opportunity of working on a Special Project - this is a substantial piece of practical or written work of your own creation.

Recommended reading

Millerson G, Television Production 13th edition (Focal Press, 1999) [Highly recommended]

Essential Reading

  • Bignell J, An Introduction to Television Studies 2nd edition (Routledge, 2007)
  • Fairweather R, Basic Studio Directing (Focal Press, 1998)
  • Jarvis P, The Essential Television Handbook (Focal Press, 1998)
  • Millerson G, Effective TV Production 3rd edition (Focal Press, 1993)
  • Millerson G, TV Scenic Design 2nd edition (Focal Press, 1997)
  • Millerson G, Lighting for Video, 3rd edition (Focal Press, 1991)
  • Rowlands, A, The Continuity Handbook (Focal Press, 1994)
  • Thomson R, The Grammar of the Edit (Focal Press, 1993)
  • Thomson R, The Grammar of the Shot (Focal Press, 1998)
  • Tomlinson, H, Sound for Film and Television (Focal Press, 2001)

Background Reading

  • Adams S, Interviewing for Journalists (Routledge, 2001)
  • Bettman, Gil, First Time Director: how to make your breakthrough movie (Michael Wiese Productions , 2003)
  • Bordwell D, Thompson K, Film Art: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill, 2006)
  • Brandt G, British Television Drama in the 1980s (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
  • Katz, Steven D, Film Directing Shot by Shot (Michael Wiese Productions, 1991)
  • Hill A, Restyling Factual TV (Routledge, 2007)
  • Root J, Open the Box: About Television (Kindle Edition, 2007)
  • Turnock R, Television and Consumer Culture (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
  • Wolfe R, Writing Comedy 3rd edition (Robert Hale, 2003)

Television Production

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