This dynamic Media Production course equips students with essential skills for creating content across diverse platforms, including films, TV broadcasts, radio, podcasts, and digital media. It emphasizes real-world applications through collaborations with industry leaders like The Walt Disney Company and ITV, offering opportunities for site visits, live projects, and professional placements. The curriculum fosters technical, creative, and analytical abilities, preparing graduates for the evolving media landscape.Key benefits include access to high-quality equipment, guest lectures from experts, and interdisciplinary projects that enhance employability. The program features a common first year, followed by advanced modules in content creation and branding, a potential placement year, and a final year with options like monetizing media or scriptwriting. Assessments involve practical work, coursework, and presentations, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
What you'll study This course has a common first year. The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn. If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements). *Modules* ScreenCraft Key Concepts in Media and Film Storytelling: From Page to Production Working in Creative Practice Film and Media : Industry and Aesthetics Making Media that Matters *Year Two* In year two, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your: Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge Study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner Professional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your career Global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen You will develop more advanced knowledge and skills to do with: short form content, television studios, and branding, amongst others. *Modules* Content Creation for Video Production Discovering Your Creativity in Media Production TV Studio and Entertainment Formats Branding, Promotion and Online Media Developing Your Career in Production Creative Collaboration *Placement Year* There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement* can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final year of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future. If you choose to do a work placement year, you will pay a reduced tuition fee* of £1,250. For more information, please go to the fees and funding section. During this time you will receive guidance from your employer or partner institution, along with your assigned academic mentor who will ensure you have the support you need to complete your placement. *Final Year* Your final year aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from year one and two. Your studies could culminate in a dissertation, the production of a documentary film, or by launching a curated exhibition based on your independent research of an area of interest to you. You will have the opportunity to choose one of three specialist modules, ‘Monetising Media’, ‘Post Production’, or ‘Scriptwriting’ to total 120 credits in your final year. *Modules* Experimenting in Film and Media Pre Production Practice Final Major Project Moving into Your Creative Future Monetising Media (optional module) Post Production (optional module) Scriptwriting (optional module) We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content. For full course and module details please check the course page on the Coventry University website.
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