Media (Top-Up), BA (Hons)

With this course, we aim to develop your media skills across a range of platforms, including photography, television, film and visual communications.This course will help you to understand the process of practical work, the theories that inform your work and the community of practice with which you will engage.You will have access to dedicated media spaces, edit suites and industry-focused radio, photography and television studios4.You will have access to industry-standard professional equipment via our Media Loan Shop*.Key Course BenefitsIf you have already completed two years of diploma study, this course offers the opportunity to ‘top up’ your qualifications to degree level.If you have already completed two years of diploma study, this course offers the opportunity to ‘top up’ your qualifications to degree level. This course aims to help you to understand the process of practical work, the theories that inform your work and the community of practice with which you will engage.You will have access to dedicated media spaces, edit suites and industry-focused radio, photography and television studios. You will have access to high-standard professional media equipment via our Media Loan Shop, including prosumer media equipment (i.e. 4K and HD video cameras, DSLR cameras, tripods, audio equipment, lighting – Canon, JVC, Sony)*.This is a third-year top-up course so you will have the opportunity to develop your existing skills, knowledge, and understanding in order to produce a professional portfolio that represents who you are as a creative media practitioner. You will produce a number of pieces of work and one final major project which brings these skills together, thus developing a portfolio of work that you can use when looking for work after graduation.In recent years our students have visited the Hong Kong Design Institute and worked with students there to create a pop-up degree show.Help applying for professional experience, placement opportunities (subject to availability, a competitive application process and additional costs) and live professional projects. Students have previously been placed at Regional BBC, Creative City, Rolls-Royce and BBC3.*See website for details