program description

master the technical foundations and practical skills needed for a role in digital broadcasting or social media production across a range of video, image-making, photography, audio and web formats. 

whether it’s tv, video, radio, or social media content, technology has led the media industry to develop a focus on digital and technical mediums and formats.

media production is an industry-focused course, which provides students with the technical foundations and practical skills required for a career in a rapidly changing media landscape, enabling students to pursue roles in industries such as advertising, tv and radio production, journalism and pr.

teaching modules include image capture and processing, audio recording and production, television documentary production, radio location production, creative media entrepreneurship and social media innovation.

key features

• 95% of summer 2017 graduates from this course are in work or further study (destinations of leavers from higher education 2016-17). graduates have gone on to work in a variety of roles at leading companies such as endemol, ideal world tv, lime pictures, the guardian, the telegraph and the bbc.
• benefit from specialist facilities, including audio recording studios, broadcast-standard radio production studios and management systems, standalone film studios equipped with multi-cameras, as well as blue and green screen studios.
• boost career prospects by undertaking a work placement. previous media production students have taken part in live filming on campus for channel 4 and worked at the bbc and itv.
• learn from opportunities for valuable hands-on experience by joining a range of student societies such as the award-winning demon media group, and contribute to its magazine, radio station, tv station and website.
• gain valuable international experience as part of these studies with #dmuglobal programme. media production students recently learned about berlin’s fascinating media history on a trip to the city, took part in documentary film production in bali and went behind the scenes at new york’s nbc studios.