BA (Hons) Media Production (Top-up) (Full Time)
Top-up your media qualification with this wide-ranging and challenging one-year course.
UCAS codes
2013 Entry
- One year Standard EntryP319
2012 Entry
- One year Standard EntryP319
Entry level
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Career opportunities
This new course is likely to be attractive to graduates wanting to work within a wide arena of creative industries, such as television, music production, Marketing, Sales, Research, Photography, Film Making, Advertising, Promotions, as well as continuing into Post-Graduate Education and teaching.
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Course overview
The BA (Hons) Media Production 1 year top-up course at Southampton Solent University offers you the opportunity to 'top up' your Foundation Degree or HND to a full BA (Hons) qualification. This course is ideal for those interested in Media Production – particular in music recording, television/video production, digital photography or Online/Interactive Media.
The course will be taught through a blend of individual and group-led presentations, reports/ essays, portfolio or production work. This practical approach will hopefully equip you with the skills and experience sought by the media industries as well as providing you with the academic skills appropriate for a final year undergraduate.
Our experienced staff are committed to ensuring that your studies are relevant to the creative industries, and kept in line with changing technologies and trends.
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Course content
Photographic Production - aims to provide students with further study in this area, incorporating digital technology, photography, studio lighting, and computer graphics (specifically web site design and visual PR promotions skills). Students will create a series of image based products intended to be incorporated within multi media production.
Multimedia Applications - aims to provide students with further study in this area, developing digital technology, photography, and web site design and visual promotional skills. The theoretical content will continue discussion on image manipulation, advertising, public/media dialogue, visual representations of sexuality, gender, specific events and their media representation as well as the role of the www.
Music Production - explores the creative use of music technology through synthesis principles and programming to enable students to move beyond the use of presets in software instruments, and explore the potential and possibilities of software synthesisers (e.g. subtractive, additive, FM) for sound design. Additionally, more advanced creative strategies and techniques, vocal recording, mixing and the exploration of experimental techniques will encourage students to work creatively within and between contemporary urban and electronic music genres.
Meaning and Intent – develop your knowledge of the concepts, theories and methods used to analyse, interpret and evaluate design and media communication.
Small Business Management and Marketing - This unit is designed to provide a comprehensive framework to students not only with an interest in becoming involved in establishing or managing a small business but also to guide those who will interface with owner managers/entrepreneurs in their working life.
Extended individual project – a large-scale self determined research project incorporating live issues and problems.