BA (Hons) Television Post-Production (Full Time)

Study the extremely important area of post-production, while gaining practical experience through working with contacts in the industry.

Course overview

This degree, part of the television production programme, allows you to acquire the specialist skills needed for post-production.

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After studying the core foundation units in Year 1 (shared with Television Studio Production and Television and Video Production), you will be able to choose from a wide variety of specialist units to tailor your degree to your own preferences.

After studying the core foundation units in Year 1 (shared with Television Studio Production and Television and Video Production), you will be able to specialise in Post Production. You will study advanced editing techniques and have the option to explore areas such as Motion Graphics and Post Production Sound.

You will have access to the latest digital editing facilities across the University. Our edit suites are linked to a central server by state of the art fibre optic cabling. This allows students access to their edit on any suite at any time. Tuition spans technical and aesthetic learning as well as an overview of editing in the historical development of both film and television genres.

All students on this degree have the opportunity to join Solent Productions, the University’s own video production company. With a range of internal and external clients, you will have the opportunity to work on a huge range of productions – from corporate, promotional and training programmes through to the massive outside broadcast shoot at the Glastonbury Festival.

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Industrial focus

You will be working on real projects, with real clients and to real deadlines. Project work in post production utilises professionally shot material so you will have the opportunity to compare your editing skills against the final broadcast programme. 

Course content

Year 1

Core units:

• Introduction to TV Production
• Issues in TV History
• Writing for Television
• Researching for Television
• Technologies of Broadcasting. 

Year 2

Five core units and one option:

• Factual Production
• Fiction Production
• Videography
• Contemporary British Television
• Introduction to Professional Practice.

Optional units:

• Editing and Technology
• Sound Aesthetics and Sound Editing
• VJ Culture and Expanded Cinema
• Story Structures for Editors
• Industrial Placement
• Multimedia Events
• Community Production.

Year 3

Four core units and one option:

• Major Project
• Film and TV in the Global Age
• Working in the Creative Industries
• Advanced Editing.

Optional units:

• Motion Graphics
• Experimental Media
• Editing and Authorship
• Interactive Professional Production
• Pitching, Presenting and Communication. 

Why choose this course?

• The course is part of the Skillset Media Academy – recognised as a national centre of excellence in media education.
• A range of technology including 58 Final Cut Pro HD editing stations and fully equipped multitrack sound studios 
• Close relationships with industry experts and advisers. Recent guest speakers include Nick McPhee (editor 'Downton Abbey', 'Doc Martin'), David Gamble (editor, 'Shakespeare in Love'), Michael Apted (director 'Chronicles of Narnia'), Sir Alan Parker (director 'Bugsy Malone', 'Mississippi Burning), Jason Bradbury ('The Gadget Show'). 
• Share ideas and projects with students from across the television production programme, and work with students on other degrees including Animation, and Popular Music. 
• Three fully equipped television studios, including a full high-definition studio with seating for an audience of up to 200.

Assessment

Entirely coursework based: a mixture of production work, written essays

Key career skills

Creative thinking, presentation, project management, visual communication, evaluation and problem solving.

Projects/work experience

All students must undertake a minimum of 120 hours' work experience during the course. Students have the opportunity to work at the annual Glastonbury Festival, shooting daily documentaries for the festival website and providing additional material for the BBC. Solent Productions provide a similar service for Cowes Week each year.

'Real world' projects are also integral to the curriculum and recent students have worked with clients as diverse as the international charity Safepoint, the Daily Echo and the AAIR asthma charity and for the Daily Echo website.   

Graduate Profile

Maj Hartmann

“It was like the professors actually really CARED about all of us. It was in their interest – and you could tell that they did this from the heart – to get us out there and help us in any possible way to build up stronger CVs. Although in the end, it all comes down to your individual initiative, it was still very reassuring to share your thoughts, CV rough drafts/updates and even problems you came to face with the professors on our course.”