Digital Media and Music Production

Are you ready to create, innovate and make a positive impact as a responsible digital citizen or music producer? Develop your creative edge with our Digital Media and Music Production BA. Build cutting-edge digital media skills and gain professional music production expertise. You’ll work with industry-standard software and equipment and collaborate on real-world projects. Undertaking a work placement will provide you with industry experience, and you'll build a professional portfolio to help shape your future career in the fast-moving and innovative creative industries.

Why choose this course?
- Gain practical skills using film, sound and image production facilities

- Benefit from our Apple MacBook Loan Scheme throughout your degree

- Film Studies and Media at Keele is ranked Top 10 in England for student positivity NSS 2024 (Broad-based universities) based on overall student satisfaction, which is an average score across 27 questions asked in the NSS

- Work placement opportunities to enhance your career prospects and network with industry partners in the creative and cultural industries.

- Graduate with a substantial music and audio portfolio using industry standard software and hardware

Our Digital Media and Music Production degree’s contemporary curriculum is designed for aspiring creatives. You’ll critically explore the theories behind digital media and music production and develop hands-on content creation skills. This will provide you with the creative, professional and technical skills to produce dynamic digital content and high-quality audio, opening doors to wide ranging careers in areas such as broadcasting, sound engineering, television and marketing.

You’ll build skills and knowledge in areas including content creation for social media, analysing what makes good content and understanding the different platforms, content and audiences. Using professional recording studios and state-of-the–art equipment you’ll gain a solid grounding in recording and mixing skills and gain practical experience as sound technician and engineer. You’ll examine the contemporary music scene and put your understanding of the nuances of crafting compelling and persuasive multimedia stories into practice focusing on an issue you’re passionate about.

Optional modules throughout this programme allow you to tailor your studies to your interests, enhancing your creative, digital, or analytical skills. Topics range from creating sound for moving images, digital curation and history, sampling and remixing, media and climate change, social media management and the American South – a summer school in the US.

Our practical, career-focused approach includes real-world projects, work placements, and study abroad opportunities. You'll develop workplace-ready skills including critical thinking, communication and problem-solving and graduate with a professional portfolio created using industry-standard equipment and software, highly valued in the digital media and creative industries.

About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.