MSc in Digital Media Production

Our MSc Digital Media Production provides you with the skills and professional-level expertise to create contemporary media products.

Our teaching staff are industry professionals with a wide range of expertise and connections to the creative industries.

The course covers:

• video and audio production
• motion capture
• computer graphics
• animation.

You'll learn to operate digital equipment and manipulate data to produce finished products for the creative industries. And work with interactive products such as game engines, mobile applications or websites. As well as the longer-established media of television, video and audio.

You can work on the award-winning Brookes TV where you'll make and produce broadcasts and train as a broadcast journalist. There are also opportunities to work on live projects for external clients producing promotional materials, a fast-expanding area of employment.

This course is open to students from any academic background.

Study modules

Compulsory modules

• Modelling and Animation Techniques (20 credits)
• Video Production (40 credits)
  This module is intended to give you an understanding of, and the ability to apply the skills required for sound and video recording, including the techniques used to design, author and produce electronic media. This includes pre-production planning, production phase involving industry-standard tools for recording and post-production using the latest techniques.
• Newsroom Operation (20 credits)
  This module covers the entire workflow for a broadcast TV newsroom from an original news story, through the write-up, planning and capturing footage, to editing and broadcasting. Using a fully operational newsroom, you will gain an understanding of the creative and technical processes involved in TV production.
• Interactive Media (20 credits)
  This module provides you with an understanding of the processes and practices needed to generate and manipulate digital media. You will develop a portfolio of work in either web, game design or mobile applications.
• Professional Media Production (20 credits)
  This module provides you with a comprehensive understanding of management techniques relevant to video/multimedia production. Working in teams, you will acquire the knowledge required to plan, organise, finance, produce and evaluate media materials for external customers.
• Research and Study Methods
  This module is designed to introduce you to the research and study methods that will underpin the work carried out for your dissertation. The module, delivered in a seminar style, will provide you with research skills, planning techniques, progress management and review, and the ability to use ICT support materials. You will be given guidance on the analysis and technical presentation of research material.

Final project

• Research and Dissertation (60 credits)
  The dissertation is a research and development project comprising a major practical project supported by a 5,000-word dissertation on a topic closely related to your course of study. Some students produce a short video or an animation as part of their project. The work may be undertaken in close co-operation with a research, industrial or commercial organisation.

Learning and teaching

We use a range of teaching and learning methods, including:

• lectures
• directed reading
• workshops
• presentations
• seminars
• practical work
• project work.

There will be a weekly three-hour teaching block over a 12 week period. You will need to set aside 200 hours of study. There will be 36 hours of staff contact.

Your learning will draw on the diverse professional backgrounds, experience and knowledge of academics and visiting lecturers from industry.

Students graduate from the course with a broad skill set that equips them to move into a career in film and television post-production, the computer games industry or live television production. Our graduates may work as freelance movie producers, graphic or games designers, but also find successful careers in international companies, such as:

• Google
• Microsoft
• Discovery Channel
• the BBC.