FdA Film and Media Production Part-time

University of Bolton

Foundation degree

In Bolton

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Description

  • Type

    Foundation degree

  • Location

    Bolton

  • Duration

    3 Years

The media and creative industries are flourishing and the North West is the key digital powerhouse outside of London. Traditional career routes in areas such as film and TV continue to seek new recruits, but exciting opportunities are also available with the broad range of organisations that now need moving images for their websites, social media platforms and promotional adverts. They want people who can create new and interesting content using their great storytelling skills and sound knowledge of the production process and workflow. This course aims to prepare you to begin your career in this exciting sector and offers transferable employability skills such as resilience, adaptability and problem solving that are highly attractive to employers.

Creative, practical and industry-focused, this course introduces you to all aspects of the pre-production, filming and post production workflow in film, TV and multi-platform formats. Our lecturers and technical staff will support you as you develop a wide range of technical and creative skills, guiding you as you learn about the production process from concept to completion. We’ll also focus on helping you appreciate how differing production roles are interdependent, and support you to learn essential skills in collaboration, communication and teamwork.

Our experienced team take pride in getting to know our students as individuals, and you can become part of our welcoming and supportive production family. Offering you the chance to share in our immense wealth of award winning industry experience, this course allows you to explore the various gateways into the vibrant media industry in North West England.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bolton (Greater Manchester)
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Deane Road, BL3 5AB

Start date

On request

About this course

This programme offers you a sound knowledge of working in a variety of film, TV and multi-platform formats. We aim to nurture your love of story and story-telling and help you develop a wide range of technical and creative skills so that you’re ready to contribute professionally to the creation of engaging and innovative moving image media.

A key part of the course is your chance to benefit from creative industries placements, and extracurricular opportunities to help build appealing CVs, showreels and portfolios in preparation for employment.

As a graduate, you’ll possess a range of transferable skills such as creativity, communication skills, teamwork, project management, and commercial and cultural awareness.

What Can I Do With This Qualification?
Film and Media Production foundation degree graduates typically enter careers in the media, cultural and creative industries. Areas of work can include television and radio, film and video, digital media, journalism, writing and publishing, PR and media practice. Some of our graduates have set up their own companies or worked collaboratively with small production companies. Others have gone on to make films that have won accolades in film festivals around the world.

After graduation, you could choose to continue your studies to degree level by taking an honours-level top-up course, such as our BA (Hons) Film and Media Production (top-up) programme.

Alternative Career Options
Arts administration
Event organisation
Teaching
Local government
Advertising and marketing
Journalism
PR consultancy
Communications
Publishing

Any subjects are acceptable at Level 3.

You should also have five GCSEs at grade C or above or grade 4 to 9 (or equivalent) including English.

You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.

If you have non-traditional entry qualifications and relevant experience, or a suitable portfolio of work that we consider a reasonable substitute for the qualifications we typically accept for this course, then we will be happy to consider your application.

Eight dedicated video edit suites with sound processing capability.
Computer facilities for each student with dedicated media software.
Two fully-equipped studio facilities with lighting rigs, screens and equipment.
Sound recording facilities.
Professional HD film production equipment and a supply of ancillary equipment for professional production.
Guides for each individual module provide information about the programme.
On successful completing this course, you could take your studies to degree level with our BSc (Hons) Film and Media Production (top-up) course. This allows you to complete your bachelor’s degree by studying for an additional 12 months full-time or 18 months part-time.

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Subjects

  • Workflow
  • Sound
  • Industry
  • Employability
  • Part Time
  • Media
  • Production
  • Opportunity
  • Compulsory
  • Producing

Course programme

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.
  • From Story to Screen
  • Sound and Vision: Production Skills 1
  • Collaborative Media Project 1
  • Experimental Film Making
  • Screen Culture: An Introduction
  • Digital Industries
  • Employability and Entrepreneurship
  • Sound and Vision: Production Skills 2
  • Creative Producing and Director's Vision
  • Collaborative Media Project 2
  • Client Commission
  • Industry Work Placement
Teaching, Learning And Assessment

Much of the work involved in this course is based around practical media projects. You’ll be expected to create different types of content as well as write essays, presentations and pitches. Some online course activities are student-generated and controlled to resemble the practices you are likely to encounter in the media industries.

We place emphasis on group work, activity-based assignments, workshops, demonstrations, projects and guided independent study. Some of the modules will be delivered in a more conventional way through classes, lectures and presentations. You’ll be taught by tutors who have extensive industry experience, and by specialist guest lecturers.

You’ll also be expected to devote a significant amount of time to independent study, and our online resources will assist you with this. Assignments will require time outside of lessons to complete. Work-based learning is a key element of the course, and the completion of industry briefs and professional quality work are designed to ensure you are ready for employment when you graduate.

There are no examinations. All assessment is through coursework. You can expect formative assessment to help you learn and develop your knowledge and skills and summative assessment on which you’ll be graded. Your summative assessment briefs will contain tasks such as making films, writing essays and reports, writing scripts and outlines, giving presentations and pitches, carrying out practical exercises and work-placements.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

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