Media Production

Success in the media industry means creating powerful products that communicate with target audiences through a constantly evolving range of media platforms. This broad-based course focuses on the production process while giving you the theoretical grounding you need. So you study practical units such as digital design, making sound and images, film-making and experimental production, combined with units ensuring your understanding of media theory, digital cultures and future digital production.

Facilities and Specialist Equipment

• High-spec multi-camera television studios

• Industry-standard radio facilities

• Award-winning, Ofcom-licensed radio station, Radio LaB

• 3D green-screen room

• Digital video-editing suites including Adobe Creative Cloud software (Premiere Pro)

• Specialist make-up studios

• Location-recording equipment

• Netflix-approved Sony FX6 cameras for broadcast-quality film and television content

• Sony FX3 Cinema Line camera with full-frame sensor and enhanced mobility for easy solo hand-held shooting

• Industry-standard sound and lighting equipment

Your Student Experience

Develop live projects and enjoy work experience opportunities at industry organisations including the BBC; Coolr Social Media Agency; XR Merge Virtual Studios; Pooja Studios; Luton Town FC’s Media and PR department; MK Dons FC; and MKFM radio station.

Produce shows for our award-winning local community radio service, Radio LaB, and our in-house online TV station, Beds TV.

Regular opportunities to meet visiting, industry-active professionals, from TV producers to published writers and performers.

Recent guest speakers include Tom Wall, TV producer for Channel 4, Channel 5 and Netflix; Julian Dismore, series producer for the BBC; Hayley Morray, assistant producer at ITV; Stuart Pinfold, BBC sound supervisor; Keanu Rattray, Digital Content Manager at FIFA; and BBC Radio 1 hosts Melvin Odoom and Rickie Haywood-Williams.

Build your knowledge through field trips to studios, film festivals, award shows, conferences and other destinations including BBC Studios; BBC Broadcasting House; BT Studios; Sky Studios; RTS Awards shows; Bafta networking events; Berlin Shorts Festival; Pinewood Studios; and the TechCon, broadcast media’s technical conference.

Areas of study include:

• Digital Design Skills
• Making Images
• Making Sound
• Media Theory and Research
• Reading the Screen
• Becoming a Freelancer
• Digital Cultures and Practices
• Experimental Production
• Future Digital Production
• Non-Fiction Filmmaking
• Contemporary Practices and Debates in the Media
• Research, Development and Industry
• Sound, Image and Interaction
• Special Project: Media Production

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