Program Overview

Digital Media: Storytelling and Production MA

Overview

Our Digital Media Storytelling and Production MA empowers you to become a versatile and entrepreneurial digital media professional, blending advanced production skills with critical analysis of today’s media landscape. This highly practical programme is designed to propel your career in dynamic fields such as content creation, social media marketing, mobile video production, interactive design, and digital project management.

Course Structure

The following subjects are indicative of what you’ll study on this course.

Core Modules

• Interactive and Immersive Storytelling: This module provides you with a theoretical and historical overview of digital and immersive non-fiction narratives.
• Major Project: This module is designed to help you create an extended digital media project and a related industry treatment.
• Media Storytelling: This module mixes theory and practice as it focuses on traditional linear media storytelling.
• Multimedia News Reporting: You will be taught the professional skills to research, write, and produce multimedia journalism.

Option Modules

• Digital Magazine Publishing: This explores the digital tools that are used to build and design compelling interactive content.
• Digital Marketing: This module examines the role of Digital Marketing within the eMarketing context.
• Documentary: Storytelling for Impact: This develops your practical production skills further into making documentary radio and television.
• Interactive and Immersive Media Production Skills: This module develops your skills in cutting-edge interactive and immersive media production technologies.
• Media Law, Ethics and Regulation: An exploration of the factors that influence journalistic practices in Britain and around the world.
• Podcast Production: In this module, you'll learn about the different facets of podcast making, exploring genres and the production techniques required for specific formats.
• Self-Representation and Digital Practice: This module explores the use of different media practices as a means for people to tell personal stories about their own lived experience.
• Start-up Incubator and Digital Entrepreneurship: This module offers you an introduction to digital entrepreneurship.
• Introduction to Documentary for Social Change: The module will critically examine the influence, responsibility, and power of journalism with a focus on broadcast media across a number of genres in reporting on and representing gender, sexuality, age and disability.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second-class honours degree (2:2), preferably in an area of digital or visual media, journalism, or design, but students with other degrees will also be considered.
• If your first language is not English, you should have an IELTS 6.5 overall, with at least 5.5 in each element.

Fees and Funding

• UK Tuition Fee: £9,700 (Price per academic year)
• International Tuition Fee: £17,500 (Price per academic year)
• Alumni discount available.
• Funding schemes available to help you fund your studies.

Facilities

• Melvyn Williams Broadcast Suite: A multifunctional space designed to meet the needs of modern multi-platform journalism.

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.
• Assessments typically fall into two broad categories: Practical and Coursework.

Research Groups

• Our research achieves real-world impact and we are proud to claim a rich and diverse profile of high-quality research and knowledge exchange in a wide range of disciplines.
• This course has connections with the following: i-Docs research network, MIT Open Documentary Lab.

Supporting You

• Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us.
• Study support, personal tutors, student advice team, and extra-curricular activities available.

Course Location

• Harrow is our creative and cultural hub, home to most of our arts, media and digital courses.
• Harrow Campus is based in north-west London, just 20 minutes from the city centre by train.