ABOUT THE COURSE
Solent’s three-year media production programme is the ideal way to sharpen your content creation skills and attain the mixed media skillset that industry employers are looking for. With industry standard facilities, a highly experienced teaching team and an emphasis on real-world learning, graduates are perfectly placed to pursue hands-on work in media production, content creation, PR, journalism, advertising and marketing.
Solent University’s Media and Film Studies subject area was ranked 15th in the Guardian University League Tables 2019.
Throughout the course, you’ll study a curriculum that is split into three distinct strands. The production units will provide you with the opportunity to develop and enhance skills in video, online, photographic and audio production. You’ll use the latest industry hardware to create exciting portfolio projects, collaborating with those from other media disciplines just as you would in the workplace.
The second group of units will teach you about the role of the producer and help you to develop a broader creative understanding of idea generation, storytelling, how to engage your audience and how to use social media effectively. You’ll also learn about the logistics of content production, and the most effective ways of selling ideas to potential clients.
The final strand focuses on employability, ensuring that you graduate from the course fully prepared for the professional workplace. You’ll be able to undertake work experience, as well as taking on live briefs, producing content to a professional brief and developing an understanding of what it is to work as a creative in today’s media industries.
YOUR FUTURE
Solent’s media production programme prepares students for a wide range of graduate level employment opportunities within the creative industries. Previous graduates have been employed as:
- Web developer
- Producer/director
- Media officer
- Creative director
- Digital marketing
- Marketing coordinator
- Production coordinator
- Video producer
- Fashion media producer
- Production assistant
- Content developer
- Social media marketing coordinator
INDUSTRY LINKS
Within the school, guest lecturers over the last 12 months have included Walter Murch, Mick Audsley, and David Gamble, who provided students with their insight into editing and post-production of feature films including The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Shakespeare in Love etc.
PLACEMENTS
All students will need to undertake 100 hours work experience in order to fulfil the requirements of the level six Work Experience unit. The experience can be gathered at any point during the course. Students’ work experience is assessed via a reflective portfolio during the second period of level six.
Students will negotiate and arrange the work experience with the organisation concerned. Advice on how to arrange the work experience and produce the assessed element will be given by the work placement tutors on an on-going basis through tutorials.
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