Program Overview

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Media Production BA (Hons)

Course Overview

This exciting Media Production BA (Hons) course aims to bring you up to date with the latest media industry developments and develops your skills to produce work for distribution across multiple platforms and genres.

Year of Entry

2025

Location

Coventry University (Coventry)

Study Mode

Full-time, Sandwich

Duration

3 years full-time, 4 years sandwich

Course Code

P310

Start Date

September 2025

How to Apply

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Course Overview

From the outset, this course aims to develop your technical, creative, reflective and analytical abilities, to give you a thorough grounding in current and emerging media production technologies, ways of working and contemporary professional practice. You can also gain highly valuable and transferrable project management and professional skills needed in this ever-expanding industry.

What You'll Study

This course has a common first year.

The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn.

If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements).

Common First Year Courses

• Film Production BA (Hons)
• Media Production BA (Hons)

Year One

• ScreenCraft - 20 credits
  • This is a hands-on module introducing you to both the contextual and practical knowledge required to create compelling films with a coherent narrative and a focus on craft skills.
• Key Concepts in Media and Film - 20 credits
  • This module will introduce you to some of the most important concepts and theories in film and media production.
• Storytelling: From Page to Production - 20 credits
  • This module explores how stories are constructed on the page and how they are taken forward and developed into finished productions.
• Working in Creative Practice - 20 credits
  • This module is the start of your professional career as you start to become aware of the variety of career paths and opportunities that exist in the media, film and wider creative industries and begin to chart your own journey through them.
• Film and Media : Industry and Aesthetics - 20 credits
  • In this module, you will explore the histories of the global media and film production industries and the art and craft of producing for those industries.
• Making Media that Matters - 20 credits
  • This module aims to teach you factual storytelling methods as you create a documentary film or content for online media.

Year Two

• Content Creation for Video Production - 20 credits
  • This module aims to teach you the core skills, knowledge, and practices necessary to effectively produce short form content.
• Discovering Your Creativity in Media Production - 20 credits
  • This module aims to develop your understanding of creativity in relation to a number of disciplines in the creative industries and arts.
• TV Studio and Entertainment Formats - 20 credits
  • This module allows you to explore the changing nature of the television studio and its important place in the interactive future of media production, consumption and platform proliferation.
• Branding, Promotion and Online Media - 20 credits
  • From branding yourself to the branding of global media corporations, this module will explore how media products are commercially constructed and marketed and the importance of this in the creative process.
• Developing Your Career in Production - 20 credits
  • Through a series of lectures, workshops and masterclasses you will be encouraged to discover the area(s) of the industry in which you want to specialise.
• Creative Collaboration - 20 credits
  • In this module, you will work with students from courses across the School of Media and Performing Arts and/or industry collaborators, external groups or organisations to respond to an issue in the local, national or global community.

Placement Year

• UK Work Placement– 0 credits
  • This module provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved placement undertaken during your programme.
• International Study/Work Placement – 0 credits
  • This module provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved international study/work placement undertaken during your programme.

Final Year

• Experimenting in Film and Media - 20 credits
  • This module gives you the opportunity to further develop your creativity and experimentation in the work you produce.
• Pre Production Practice - 20 credits
  • This module provides you with the practical tools needed to develop your own independent research and development work for production.
• Final Major Project - 40 credits
  • This module provides you with the opportunity to produce a significant piece of work of your own choosing in response to a negotiated brief.
• Moving into Your Creative Future - 20 credits
  • This module aims to enable you to proactively launch yourself into your future career as you develop and produce a professional portfolio.
• Monetising Media - 20 credits
  • This module option explores the emerging and proliferating opportunities for commercialising your media assets.
• Post Production - 20 credits
  • This is an opportunity to develop, or further develop, your skills in editing, post-production and finishing in software packages such as Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and Da Vinci Resolve.
• Scriptwriting - 20 credits
  • In this module option, you will explore idea development, narrative structure, story world, character development, dialogue, plot and the use of subplots.

How You'll Learn

The course is delivered though project-based ‘hands-on’ learning, with a great emphasis on location work, live projects and practice activities, all with ongoing feedback.

Teaching Contact Hours

As a full-time undergraduate student, you will study modules totalling 120 credits each academic year. A typical 20 credit module requires a total of 200 hours study.

Assessment

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

International Experience Opportunities

Our course is designed to reflect the increasingly international context of media production; this is reflected strongly in the course curriculum through international trips which can provide the opportunity for insight into other cultures and societies throughout the world.

Entry Requirements

• UK: 112 UCAS points
• International: 29 points
• GCSE: GCSE English at grade 4 / C or Functional Skills Level 2, or other equivalent Level 2 awards
• BTEC: DMM
• IB Diploma: 29 points
• Access to HE: The Access to HE Diploma. Plus GCSE English at grade 4 / C or above.

Fees and Funding

• UK, Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man: £9,535 per year
• EU: £9,535 per year with EU Support Bursary, £19,850 per year without EU Support Bursary
• International: £19,850 per year

Facilities

Coventry University has invested in superb arts facilities with Ellen Terry, Delia Derbyshire and the Tank forming your primary learning locations.

Careers and Opportunities

Our Media Production graduates are working successfully all over the world in film, TV and media companies. Example roles have included working as assistant editor for Sunset and Vine on rugby and football coverage, as a runner on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, as video editor for the Sidemen, as assistant producer for Envy Post Production, as casting assistant on Channel 4's ‘A Place in the Sun’, as creative producer at Narrative Entertainment, and as radio station producer at Global FM, among many more.