Content, Media and Film Production
Entry requirements
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
UCAS Tariff
About this course
The purpose of the BA Content, Media & Film Production course is to inspire the next generation of creative screen entrepreneurs, equipping them with the knowledge, critical thinking skills, professional skills, and the attitude to deliver a range of filmed projects to their intended audiences.
This course challenges you to create branded content, viral videos, fictional tv series, and social impact filmmaking, as well as skills to navigate the modern media environment through digital literacy and data, social media analytics, and creative entrepreneurship.
- Practical: Students will benefit from a module system where they acquire knowledge and understanding about the evolving media landscape, learn about storytelling, analytics, audience media consumption, and contemporary trends in delivering video content.
- Industry-facing: Learn digital video production skills from professionals who are active in the media industries, ensuring that the skills learned will be relevant and up to date.
- Real-life Experience: Each semester, an industry partner from a creative field will set a brief, and students will produce content for them as part of their assessment. Our previous partners include Twitter, Karmarama, VidCon, and MTV. At the end of each semester, the partners will help to judge the productions of students, and award prizes to the winning entries.
- Portfolio: Coupled with practical experience, students will emerge from their degree with a portfolio of professional content, and a business plan to help them navigate the complex media and creative industries job market.
Modules
Level 4:
Tell a Story
In this module, you will define your creative purpose through the development of a short form piece of work that identifies and connects with the target audience. Learn the basics of content, media, and film production to create a coherent narrative using a range of production techniques and technical skills. Experiment with your learning to create a coherent production, finding an audience to tell a story that meets the brief set by Twitter.
Change Hearts
Use the power of storytelling to trigger an emotive response or ‘change of heart’ from the audience through social impact filmmaking. You will learn to create documentary and factual content, to work with subjects, people, clients, and to observe, capture, and edit material to support its’ emotional power. Incorporate your learning into the creating of content which shows a demonstrable change in opinion.
Level 5:
Entertain Me
You will develop an understanding of the core concepts of fiction storytelling, and appreciate the audience’s relationship with film and television through the production of a short film, TV pilot, or feature film trailer. Learn about audience and market dynamics of the industry, and how to work within the world of fiction by creating an excerpt or pilot for a feature film, television pilot episode, or short film.
Change Minds
In this module, you will be tasked to inspire an audience to make a choice or change their behaviour through a piece of advertising or branded content in response to an industry client brief. Learn how creative agencies and producers engage with clients to create content that will affect opinion, build brands, and change behaviour, as well as learning to write, direct, shoot, and edit for relevant formats.
Level 6:
Becoming Influential
Employ engaging storytelling techniques, and use evolving new media technologies to create an online brand that garners a loyal following. Learn the business dynamics involved in building a real presence in the digital space, engaging with both new and emergent innovations in audience engagement, and developing your skills in creating content with the capacity to build a loyal audience.
Be an Entrepreneur
In this module, you will incorporate your previous learning into a self-defined graduation project that develops your skills and showcases your talent in one of six specified areas. Develop your knowledge, skills, and understanding in your chosen area, research and discover new techniques or technological methods to create film or content, and learn entrepreneurship and business skills to raise funding.
Assessment methods
The course is practical, and within each module students will choose to make one or more projects and can choose one for assessment, together with the required supporting materials. There are no exams, but written and video work is required to support all submitted projects.
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