BSc (Hons) Media Technology (Full Time)

With one of the best reputations in the industry, this course will open up a wide range of employment opportunities in the media and entertainment business.

Course overview

If you want to be a technical support engineer with practical experience at systems level applied electronics, then this respected course could give you the edge.

Using our specialist facilities, you'll gain a solid grounding in electrical principles, technology mathematics and engineering physics. In Year 2 you'll extend your knowledge base with specialist units, and develop your understanding of the synergy between sound and moving image.

 The engineering sector of the media and entertainment business is expanding fast and this degree aims to address industry needs by producing top quality, technically competent graduates. We're committed to contributing production engineers with the skill set to operate and maintain equipment under control.

Year 3 subjects include Broadcast Systems Engineering, designed specifically to address the needs of engineering for the broadcast industry. By combining this with option units, you are able to specialise in the engineering associated with a programme-making, post-production or transmission environment in television or radio. There is also a year-long electronic engineering project of choice that reflects hardware or software used within the broadcasting industries.

This course offers flexibility too. With common units shared with students from other media technology courses, you'll have the option to transfer to another pathway if your career aspirations change. 

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Industrial focus

Solent's excellent industry links allow us to integrate the study of media technology and production practice using up-to-date techniques. This well-established, practical course has a proven track record for graduate employment. 

Course content

Year 1 

Six core units:

• Video Production
• Audio Studio Recording
• Light and Sound
• Audio and Video Technology
• Media Electronics
• Digital Audio. 

Year 2

Six core units:

• Sound Design
• Audio Systems
• Video Systems
• Electronic Applications
• Media Formats
• Media Computing. 

Year 3

Three core units and two option units:

• Broadcast Systems Engineering
• Transmission and Networking Technologies
• Project (double unit).
  
  Options:
• Audio Systems Design
• Film and Video Technology
• Communication Signal Processing
• Outside Broadcasting
• Audio Post Production
• Curriculum Plus. 

Why choose this course?

• Share ideas and projects with students from all of Solent’s media technology courses.
• The video laboratory provides a complete digital broadcast environment and we also have arguably the best private 35mm cinema in the country, equipped with Dolby and DTS digital sound formats.
• The industry standard Pro Tools|HD and Pyramix Digital Audio Workstations are used for audio production tasks in music, film and broadcast.
• We have modern and well-equipped TV, radio and music recording studios.
• Industrial visits, for example to Dolby Laboratories and Odeon Cinemas.

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Assessment

Fully in-course assessed through a mixture of written assignments, presentations, production portfolios and short tests.

Key career skills

IT, project management, communication, problem solving and working to deadlines.

Projects/work experience

Students work on the technical production of local and national events such as the coverage of University graduation and fashion shows and recording at the Glastonbury and Glade music festivals. 

Graduate profile

John Wardropper

John Wardropper graduated in 2008, and currently works for Arqiva as a satellite engineer. John’s interest in broadcast technology led to him choosing Media Technology: “Although initially interested in sound, I developed a passion for video, and Media Tech has a synergy between the two.”

His final year project involved building an automatic pan and tilt head for a camera tripod. The unit tracks a subject and moves the camera angle to automatically keep them in shot even if they move around, making it ideal for webcasting lectures or presentations where a camera operator isn’t available.
Staff from Arqiva Outside Broadcast were so impressed that they interviewed John on the spot and offered him a job in their Satellite Media Transmission department in Winchester.

“The Media Tech course led directly to a job. Whilst demonstrating my final year project on poster day I was given an informal interview. The week after I did some work experience with Arqiva to see what the job was like and then I started working as an SNG Engineer. Since then I have been to Amsterdam, Lille, Nigeria, Edinburgh and Madrid, doing a variety of satellite broadcasts including HD Digital Cinema.”