Media Production

This exciting course aims to keep you up to date with the latest media industry developments and encourages you to develop skills to produce work for distribution across multiple platforms and genres.

Media Production is about developing real world skills in many different types of production from making: films, live broadcast TV, radio, podcasts, 360 video, immersive experiences, photography, websites, and social media content.

Our current links with local, regional, national media industries, including companies like The Walt Disney Company, ITV and Aardman Animations, provide numerous opportunities for location work, site visits and talks by visiting media professionals, together with live projects and a professional experience scheme*. In short, you’ll be taught to tell interesting stories and distribute those stories to the largest possible audience.

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

Key Course Benefits
* Coventry University is ranked 5th for Media and Film Studies, and joint 11th for Career Prospects in Media and Film Studies, by the Guardian University Guide 2024.

* Access high standard professional media equipment via our Media Loan Shop, including media equipment, such as Blackmagic and Sony cameras

* Opportunity to meet experts in new media and traditional media at our series of screenings and masterclasses with past guest speakers including media practitioners, filmmakers, and graduates from the course (subject to availability).

* Opportunities to learn and work on projects with students from other courses in the School of Media and Performing Arts. These collaborative opportunities are a defining feature of your learning experience and are designed to help place you in a more advantages position in developing your skills and employability on graduating.

Opportunity to study abroad at one of our many international partners during a placement year, which include Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (ZUMC) in China and Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France. (These opportunities are subject to availability, competitive application, meeting visa requirements and additional costs).

*For full information please check the course page on the Coventry University website