BSc (Hons)Media Technology and Virtual Production

Core modules

Audio and Video Production

This module combines the audio and video technologies for studios, live events, and post-production. It covers studio setup, camera and lighting systems, event workflows, sound reinforcement, and core skills like mixing, editing, and colour correction.

Media Engineering

This module will help you to understand how to quantify and model physical properties and phenomena as well as how to critically analyse observations. You will explore mathematical techniques such as using equations and graphs, and be introduced to functions such as logarithms and sine.

Computing and Networking

This module does not seek to make a master programmer of everyone, but rather equip you with the skills and knowledge to recognise common issues, talk fluently in the language of computers, and identify computers and computational skills as tools to make your professional and academic life easier and more efficient.

Visual Enhancement

This module will focus on the pipelines for produced content, 3D development and scene building, colour and colour spaces, and how codecs in video work, and how they affect distribution. Visual enhancement refers to the use of advanced visual technologies and design strategies to elevate the aesthetic and functional aspects of live events, performances, and sports experiences.

Core modules

Outside Broadcast

This module is structured around experiential, practical learning in a simulated live broadcast environment. Students will take on a variety of roles found in professional outside broadcast (OB) setups, working both individually and as part of production teams. The focus is on learning by doing, allowing students to apply theoretical knowledge directly in realistic scenarios.

Emerging Technologies

This module explores the dynamic and fast-evolving landscape of emerging technologies within the media technology, broadcast, and virtual production sectors. Responsive to the technology landscape as it moves, it encourages students to critically examine how new technologies emerge, gain traction, and reshape workflows, storytelling methods, and audience engagement.

Project Management

This module is an exploration of the many facets of project work, from research skills and application of the scientific method, to working effectively in a team, and ensuring you produce excellent and well-presented results. The module is designed for you to have time and control over your learning.

Virtual Production

This module gives you the opportunity to collaboratively explore the exciting area of Virtual Production from the perspective of your chosen specialist area. In this way you can apply learning from your own practice to this highly interactive and interdisciplinary format.

Core modules

Extended Reality

Extended Reality (XR) technology is transforming the way we create television media - and this module puts you right at the heart of that revolution. You’ll explore how cutting-edge technologies like real-time 3D rendering, LED volumes, motion tracking, and augmented reality are being used to blur the line between the physical and the digital.

Technical Production

This module develops advanced technical and organisational skills required for delivering professional-standard media and live event productions. Students deepen their understanding of production planning, systems integration, and multi-disciplinary coordination across lighting, sound, video, networks, and control systems. Emphasis is placed on applying engineering principles to real-world production workflows, solving the problems that arise to get the production complete.

Media Technology Project

The project module is aimed at allowing you to show off both your technical and your project management skills, and is typically one of the main things that employers are interested in when interviewing for graduate roles. It is important to identify the things that really interest you – the project is a great way to shape your degree to suit your interests and career aspirations.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Capture Technologies

In this module, you'll explore different capture technologies in a simulated studio environment, transforming the physical world into digital assets. Typical technologies you'll use will be mocap, photogrammetry, LiDAR scanning, HDRI capture and on-set data. You’ll experiment, research and test one method in depth to build specialised, industry-ready skills.

Thinking Procedurally

With the complexities of modern digital production, it is often not efficient to produce individual assets, but rather produce procedural definitions which can be used to generate multiple assets with differing properties. This more technical approach to asset creation is highly sought after and is becoming ubiquitous in the games, CGI and VFX industries. This module explores node graphs and visual scripting methods to create procedural asset definitions of increasing complexity using Houdini.