Program Overview

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BA in Film & Creative Media

Overview

The BA in Film & Creative Media programme is designed to prepare students for the challenges of the creative media sector. The programme combines traditional communication and media production skills with technical training in multimedia production, processes, and design.

Aims and Objectives

The programme aims to:

• Help students relate communication technologies with narrative possibilities and a perspective on telling stories to defined audiences.
• Assist students to competently realise projects using audio and video software, camera equipment, and storytelling devices that create meaning to a defined audience or client.
• Develop students' knowledge of the theoretical and methodological skills necessary for producing a creative portfolio of work.
• Provide students with an understanding of the processes underlying creativity and innovation.
• Place the students' understandings of film and creative media within its cultural context.
• Enable students to operate within creative workplaces cognisant of professional practices and industry codes of behaviour.

Delivery

All learners are expected to attend in person in class.

Teaching and Assessment

The programme provides a flexible, multimodal, active, peer-led, experiential, and reflective learning environment for students. Modules will be delivered in a hybrid mode through a mix of guest lectures, workshops, study-tours, case studies, seminars, tutoring, laboratory/practical sessions, work-based learning, simulation activities, video role plays, and more. The assessment methods will range from media artefacts, essays, blogs, reports, presentations, in-class tests to photo-essays. The assessment will be 100% continuous assessment.

Course Content

The programme has the following content:

• Year 1:
  • Digital Film Production
  • New Media Writing
  • Multimedia Tools
  • Investigating the Creative Media Industry
  • Film, Cinema and Screen Today
  • Creativity & Design in Practice
  • Sound Production
  • Storytelling in the Digital Age
• Year 2:
  • Professional Practice: The Creative Workplace
  • Audio Tech & Techniques
  • Principles: Light, Camera, Photography
  • Software 1: Professional Editing Platforms
  • The Moving Image
  • Media & Identity
  • Writing for Screen Media
• Year 3:
  • Audio for Podcasting, Performance & Radio
  • Exploring Popular Culture
  • Professional Practice: Project Management
  • Camerawork
  • Scriptwriting and Development
  • Software 2: Animation, Titles and Publishing
  • Audio for Film & Screen
  • Contemporary Film & Television
  • Creative Projects

Structure

• Year 1 is the Fundamental stage, providing students with foundational knowledge of film studies and creative media.
• Year 2 is the Developmental stage, allowing students to gain more experience in visual and audio techniques.
• Year 3 is the Competent stage, where students will act more autonomously in using audio and visual techniques in the creation of a Creative Projects Portfolio.

The programme has five streams:

• Professional Practice – 25 ECTS
• Writing and Creation – 45 ECTS
• Theory and Context – 50 ECTS
• Audio Production – 30 ECTS
• Visual Production – 30 ECTS

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the programme will be able to work in supervised technical positions or acting as crew-members for a larger production. The programme is designed for content creators, artists, and filmmakers or those who aspire to enter these roles. It will be of interest to employees in the creative industries and allied fields interested in moving to a content creator role.

Graduates may also progress to the final year of the Level 8 programmes, the BA in (Hons) Film & Creative Media.

Fees

The fees for the Full-time BA in Film & Creative Media programme are €6,045 per annum for EU students.

Next Steps

Before making an application, please ensure you are aware of all the entry requirements.

School Leaver Applicants

Application for first-year full-time QQI programmes in the college is through the CAO System.

Mature Applicants

If you are over 23 years of age on the 1st of January on the year of admission and do not meet the minimum entry requirements, you may apply as a Mature Student.

Transfer Students

Students holding a relevant Certificate, Diploma, or other relevant third-level qualification may qualify for entry to the second or third year of the degree programme.

EU Citizens

A European (EU) Application is one made by a person who is permanently a resident in one of the member states of the European Union and/or who will have received full-time second-level education, for three of the five years immediately before the date of proposed admission, in member states.

Non-EU Applicants

Non-EU applicants should contact directly the International Admissions Office at Dublin Business School.

Application Fee to CAO

Early applicants to CAO can benefit from a reduced fee of €30 for early online applications. There is a standard application fee of €45 made payable to CAO on submitting your CAO application form or online application to before the normal closing date. Late applicants will be charged €90 for paper applications and €60 for online applications.

Awarding Body

Quality & Qualifications Ireland (QQI)

Award

Ordinary Bachelor Degree

NFQ Level

Level 7

Award Title

BA in Film & Creative Media

Award Type

Major

Duration

3 Years

CAO Code

DB576

Next Intake

September 2025

Categories

• International
• Media & Journalism
• Full-time Degrees/ Certificates
• Full-Time
• Arts
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