Media Production BA (Hons)

What you will study

You will study modules such as:

Stage one

In year one you will study a range of modules designed to help you develop an understanding of the media industries, their products and the ways in which those products can be understood. You will study writing for the screen in Write This Way where you will explore the conventions and practices of writing for different media formats. You will also undertake practice based modules in TV Production with Small Screen Big Ambitions, Radio Production skill in Radio ID and Digital Publishing skill in Digital Symbiosis these will develop and build a core set of skills, practices and theoretical approaches that will be the foundation for the rest your programme of study.

• Write This Way
• Radio ID
• Small Screen Big Ambitions
• Digital Symbiosis

Stage two

Year two will allow you to explore and interrogate key theories and practices that aid recognition of the synergies, cross-fertilisation and convergence that exists in contemporary media industries and the way that many media producers work across a variety of media platforms. It is with this in mind that in year two you will continue with the strands of television, radio and digital publishing.

• Voice Of Reason
• Focusing On The Facts
• Interfacing with the Truth
• From Premise to Page
• Researching The Audience

Diploma in Professional Practice

If you want to gain work experience, you can take an optional work placement between stages two and three to gain valuable industry experience. During the placement, you'll study an additional qualification – the Diploma in Professional Practice – which features modules such as:

Applied Professional Practice

This module enables you to relate your academic knowledge to the work environment. It also provides a framework for you to develop skills relevant to all areas of professional practice, including objective setting, planning, negotiating, implementing, demonstrating and reflecting.

Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice

You’ll gain insights into the commercial realities and external factors that influence the success of an organisation.

Stage three

In Year three you shall continue to further develop your professional practice, skills and critical theoretical underpinning within an independent research and production ethos, through means of an advanced portfolio of work in New Horizons in which you will be able to develop, research and create for an extended negotiated research production project of your own design.
You will also be able to refocus your production specialisms by choosing two out of the four production pathways that you have studied during the previous two years. This narrowing of focus is designed to facilitate your engagement in a deeper, more detailed and intensive production of work.

• Appification Of Television
• Levels of Persuasion
• Dramatic Direction
• Sounds Dramatic
• Advanced Documentary Production

This sees the culmination of the traditional broadcast pathways in terms of radio production in Sounds Dramatic and television production in Dramatic Direction the creation, production, development and delivery of more substantial and deeper broadcast media artifacts. Whilst the digital publishing options Levels of Persuasion & Appification Of Television will enable you to interrogate the impact of digital devices and technologies that can be employed to support, or even extend, the users experience of traditional broadcast media artifacts. With specific focus on media convergence you will be able address and create transmedia artifacts, immersive second screen products, speculative methods of content access and consumption that will align and compliment current and future forms of traditional broadcast media production.