Overview

You need skill and experience to thrive in this industry and our Media Production course aims to equip you with the expertise your CV needs.
We live in a constantly changing, 24/7 multimedia landscape where anyone with a smartphone can become a broadcaster, awash with innovative trends and emerging techniques – like 5G, Internet of Things, virtual reality and mobile media.

This exciting course will keep you up-to-date with the latest sector developments, equipping you with the skills to produce work for distribution across multiple platforms and genres. We adopt a convergent media approach, familiarising you with a wide range of media, including lens-based, broadcast and digital media.

Our excellent links with local, regional, national media industries, including companies like Aardman Animations (Bristol), provide numerous opportunities for location work, site visits and talks by visiting media professionals, together with live projects and a professional experience scheme.

Course information

We live in a constantly changing, 24/7 multimedia landscape where anyone with a smartphone can become a broadcaster, awash with innovative trends and emerging techniques – like 5G, Internet of Things, virtual reality and mobile media.

This exciting course aims to keep you up-to-date with the latest sector developments, equipping you with the skills to produce work for distribution across multiple platforms and genres. We adopt a convergent media approach, familiarising you with a wide range of media, including lens-based, broadcast and digital media.

Our links with local, regional, national media industries, including companies like Aardman Animations (Bristol), provide numerous opportunities for location work, site visits and talks by visiting media professionals, together with live projects and a professional experience scheme. In short, you’ll be taught to tell interesting stories and distribute those stories to the largest possible audience.

If you’re an aspiring media professional, our course aims to cultivate your digital literacy skills, enabling you to understand, engage and respond to the ever-changing global media. You should soon be producing professional, innovative, inspired and challenging work.

We’ll aim to help you develop your own original voice, encouraging you to see technology as an important tool so that you are not afraid to use the full range of media at your disposal to articulate that voice.

Why choose this course?

From the outset, we aim to develop your technical, creative, reflective and analytical abilities, giving you a thorough grounding in current and emerging media technologies, ways of working and contemporary professional practice, as well as the project management and professional skills needed in this ever-expanding sector.

You’ll produce multiple pieces of work, both individually and collaboratively, from self-reflexive professional portfolios to media projects using film, photography or online platforms. In doing so, you’ll have access to our extensive specialist resources, including video and photography studios, industry-standard software suites, radio studios, specialist IT facilities and our dedicated ‘digital media lab’.

You’ll be taught by staff with significant contemporary industrial, applied research and teaching experience; their expertise spanning film history and theory, experimental film practitioner, multi-media artists, writers, scriptwriters and cinematographers, who have worked with national and international organisations. For example, Clifton Stewart (Senior Lecturer in Media Production) is a screenwriter, curator and programmer for the Art and Algorithms Digital Arts Festival in Florida; our lecturer Brad Porter is a cinematographer with a wide network of contacts in Europe and America; Course Director Dr Kamila Kuc is an experimental filmmaker, writer and curator whose work and curated programmes have been shown nationally and internationally (ICA and BFI, London; New Mexico, Texas, Scotland, Bucharest); and Mez Packer (Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media) is a novelist who has worked with Tindal Street Fiction and Skyros Writers’ Lab among others.

International experience opportunities

Our course is designed to reflect the increasingly international context of media production; this is reflected strongly in the course curriculum through international trips which provide an insight into other cultures and societies throughout the world.

We strongly encourage you to broaden your theoretical, cultural and practical references, providing opportunities to broaden your horizons by living, studying or working abroad on a sandwich year.

You will have opportunities to take part in international trips where you will be able to develop your knowledge and skills through the production of individual and group media projects. Reviewed annually, recent field trips have included: Cyprus, Hangzhou, Kenya, Los Angeles, New York, Norway, Paris, Prague, Sierra Leone and Tenerife. On all trips, you will be engaging in production projects, assisting on a local film production or making your own films using local crew.

In 2016, a group of students visited Morocco as part of the University’s ‘Changing Lives Programme’, where they undertook a range of activities from visiting with the elderly and having conversations with African migrants, Artisans and women in Sefrou about various issues affecting their home to making origami for children in the local hospital and organising an exhibition about the history of Sefrou for the locals.

Career prospects

The ever-changing world of the creative industries demands multi-skilled media professionals, who are familiar with a range of media platforms, full of ideas and imagination, with strong ethics and levels of professionalism; these same graduate attributes our course seeks to nurture.

By studying a broad spectrum of media practice, the course is designed to equip you with the skills to work for large organisations like the BBC, as well as smaller media production companies, or to work as a freelance or independent media producer. During your second year, the ‘Professional Experience’ module requires you to undertake four weeks of professionally based activity and, throughout your course, you will develop your own professional practice portfolio to use when looking for work after graduation.

Over the years, we have developed and maintained excellent links with a wide variety of employers in the media and cultural industries. Our Creative Futures employment team is on hand to offer tailored career and enterprise support if you wish to gain employment or take advantage of professional practice opportunities within course specific industries. Our dedicated enterprise officers also offer valuable assistance on how to begin as a freelancer/entrepreneur.

Coventry University is committed to preparing you for your future career and giving you a competitive edge in the graduate job market. The University’s Careers and Employability team provide a wide range of support services to help you plan and prepare for your career.

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