Course summary
- Learn to use industry-standard systems to create, capture, store, edit, compose and distribute digital media.
- Work with a wide range of professional industry-standard equipment.
- Build your employability by working with nationwide digital media companies.
- Gain valuable experience by working on live projects.
This course enables you to develop the creative and technical skills needed to work with industry-standard technologies and current emerging platforms in disciplines such as film, animation, interactive media, gaming, mobile applications, web-based media, social media, virtual reality and cross-media.
How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
We employ a practice-based approach to teaching and assessment set within the context of creative and industry-focused activities. You will build up a portfolio of creative work suitable for use after you graduate.
You learn through
- lab based specialist workshops
- lectures, seminars and tutorials
- self-directed study
- live projects
Future careers
This course prepares you for a future career in:
- digital content creation
- digital creative direction
- digital marketing and branding
- social media management
- project management
- front end development
- app design and development
- graphic and motion design
- mixed reality design
- games cinematics
- graphic design
- illustration
- videography
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for:
- Hallmark
- Joi Polloi
- Remedy Entertainment
- Sheffield Doc/Fest
- talkSport
- Spotify
- Financial Times
- Hydra Creative
- Wildcat Digital
- Rise at Seven
Equipment and facilities
On this course you work with
- professional film and stills cameras
- 360 video, lighting and studio equipment
- VR, mobile and interactive media devices
- specialist film, animation and photography studios
- a full-sized professional green screen studio
- state-of-the-art PC and mac labs
- industry-standard software tools
- a purpose-built cinema
Modules
Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.
You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.
Year 1
Compulsory modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentCreating Digital Content20PracticalDigital Media Fundamentals40Coursework
Digital Storytelling20Coursework
Interactive Design20Practical
Level 4 Live Industry
Year 2
Compulsory modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentImmersive Digital Design20CourseworkLevel 5 Live Industry Project20Practical
Managing Creative Productions20Coursework
Photography And Video Production40Coursework
Elective modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentApp Design And Development20Practical
Creative Sound Practice20Coursework
Documentary Production (Photography, Sound And Moving Image)20Practical
Introduction To Concept Art20Coursework
Virtual Reality Design20Coursework
Year 3
Final year
Compulsory modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentDigital Media Arts40CourseworkFinal Digital Media Project60Coursework
Professional Design Project20Coursework
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