Digital Media Production

Course Structure

1. Video Production 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. It will take you through the entire process of making interactive video-based multimedia products. This includes pre-production planning, production phase involving industry standard tools for recording and post-production using the latest techniques of data manipulation.
2. Web Media provides you with an understanding of the processes and practices needed to generate and manipulate web content. You will develop a blog and build an online portfolio of work including digital text, images and audio material.
3. Creating Character Models provides you with a systematic understanding and experience of techniques used in 3D character modelling, using PC based systems that are used in the CGI (computer generated imagery) industry. You will produce 3D character models and rendered images.
4. Creating Digital Animation and Visual Effects covers the techniques used in 3D animation and motion capture. You will animate 3D character models including fluids, fabrics, skin, hair and fur. The emphasis is on understanding how complex animations are created using studio software. You will produce animations using studio packages. Motion capture will be used to emulate life-like graphics. You will also look at future developments such as markerless motion capture and augmented reality.
5. Newsroom Operation 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 the latest industry-standard equipment in a fully operational newsroom, you will gain an understanding of the creative and technical processes involved in TV production.
6. Professional Media Production aims to provide 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.
7. Research and Study Methods is designed to introduce you to the research and study methods that will underpin 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 ability to use ICT support materials. You will be given guidance on the analysis and technical presentation of research material.
8. The Dissertation is an individual research and development project of 10,000-15,000 words on a topic closely related to your course of study. The work may be undertaken in close co-operation with a research, industrial or commercial organisation.