Course contact details
Applicant Enquiries Team
Phone:+44(0)115 848 4200
Nottingham Trent University
50 Shakespeare Street
Nottingham
NG1 4FQ
This BSc Event Production course is delivered at our London campus in Whitechapel, at the centre of the UK’s live events and entertainment industry.
Learn to produce live events where they actually happen.
You’ll train in a real working venue, developing skills in lighting, live sound, video, broadcast and event production. From day one, you’ll build rigs, run systems and work with the equipment used in professional shows.
The course is practical and studio-led, giving you experience of real events and production environments. You’ll learn how to plan, deliver and manage live productions using industry-standard tools and workflows.
Key features:
Learn in a live events venue in East London
Train across lighting, sound, video and broadcast production
Work with LED screens, projection mapping and live show technology
Collaborate on live events with music, film and content students
You’ll study in East London, surrounded by venues, production companies and creative networks, giving you direct access to the industry.
You’ll graduate ready for roles in live event production, technical production, touring, broadcast and installation, or to build your own career in the live events sector.
Year One
Lighting Technology Fundamentals (20 credit points)
Sound Technology Fundamentals (20 credit points)
Event Operations Passport (20 credit points)
Sound Technology Operations (20 credit points)
Lighting Technology Operations (20 credit points)
Equipment, Maintenance & Repair (20 credit points)
Year Two
Live Event Industry Practice (40 credit points)
Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking (20 credit points)
AV Data Networking (20 credit points)
Production Delivery (20 credit points)
Optional Module - Choose one of the following:
Creative Entrepreneurship (20 credit points)
Festival and Music Events Management (20 credit points)
Sound Design for Visual Media (20 credit points)
Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)
We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation.
* If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will need to apply for this course by using the full-time UCAS code.
Final Year
Creative Technology Lab (20 credit points)
Industry Briefs (20 credit points)
Final Capstone Project: Preproduction (20 credit points)
Final Capstone Project (40 credit points)
Future Pathways (20 credit points)
The following entry points are available for this course:
A lower offer may be made based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer and we get data from UCAS to make these decisions. NTU offers a student experience like no other, and this approach helps us to find students who have the potential to succeed here, but may have faced barriers that can make it more difficult to access university.
We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations. Please contact Nottingham Trent University Admissions team for further information.
NTU makes contextual offers for this course to give everyone a fair chance to access their chosen degree.
Contextual offers are lower than our standard entry criteria or may be an unconditional offer for courses that require a portfolio. We also take individual circumstances into account when we receive results and may accept grades lower than our published criteria.
We use a range of data from UCAS to make our offers and more information on our approach is available at the link below.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Tuition fees for 2027 entry are yet to be confirmed. As a guide and to enable you to plan your finances, the fees for Home undergraduate students for 2026 are £9790 .The current expectation is that the University may increase this for future and subsequent years of study in line with inflation and as specified by the Government.
Phone:+44(0)115 848 4200
50 Shakespeare Street
Nottingham
NG1 4FQ
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