Television and Digital Production BA Honours

Television is an exciting and world leading industry and the major employer in the creative industries in the UK. This course will enable you to realise your potential and develop the multi-skilled essentials needed to work in the fast-changing world of television and digital production.

Why study BA Television and Digital Production* at Middlesex University?

This course has been designed to keep pace with advances in television and the new platforms emerging alongside it. New areas at the forefront of contemporary small screen media including streaming, 360° degree and immersive video, professional social media content and webisodes are also part of the curriculum. You will learn to meet established industry needs by creating original ideas and formats across documentary, reality, studio and drama, for broadcasters, online channels, new platforms and VoD streams.

All the modules on this course will prepare you for your career. Core modules will explore how production companies work and the range of positions in industry. You will develop creative, technical and production skills and explore routes to gaining employment in the sector, including work placement opportunities.

This is a future facing degree where you will learn everything you need to know about content creation for broadcasters, streaming and Video-on-demand. We have strong links to industry contacts, with regular masterclasses from leading programme-makers and small screen creatives, and professional bodies including ScreenSkills, PACT (the Producers Association for Cinema and Television) and Film London so you can ensure that you will be well positioned to fill the skills gaps in television and emergent fields.

*Please note this course is subject to review.

Course highlights

• Get skills certification around AVID, Pro Tools and Da Vinci Resolve
• Pitch to BBC Commissioning Editors
• Take advantage of independent production company visits, trips to studio recordings/live broadcasts, work placements and client commissions, all of which immerse you in today’s small screen industry and not just a classroom simulation
• Your tutors will be television professionals and specialists, and our visiting lecturers include directors, producers and broadcasters from C4, the BBC, ITV and the independent sector
• You’ll remain in close contact with the industry throughout the course and will be tutored on how to join the television industry with networking and placement opportunities essential aspects of the degree

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What will you study on the BA Television and Digital Production?

Throughout your three years, you’ll be working across different genres from music videos, sitcoms, talent shows and quiz shows to dramas and documentaries, with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment and the support of industry experts.

You will gain substantial practical production skills in single and multi-camera projects that will enable you to become an accomplished professional. Your talent and vision come to fruition when you produce your graduation showreel in Year 3. Work placements, practical, creative and career focused modules ensure you have all the tools necessary to work in TV and digital production.

This course allows you to specialise in the roles of your choice both on location (including Director, Producer, Researcher, Script writer, Production Manager, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist, Editor, Designer), and in the studio (including Studio Director, Floor Manager, Gallery Production Assistant, Vision Mixer, Gallery PA and Vision Control).

Modules

How is the BA Television and Digital Production taught?

As well as working on projects, both alone and in groups, you will learn through a blend of workshops, screenings, seminars and technical laboratories.

We have very strong links to the television, film and digital media sectors in London and beyond and you'll learn from the industry's leaders. Over the past year, our students have received masterclasses from:

• Carl Callam, BBC3 Commissioner
• Mark Cooper, Head of Music at the BBC
• Nick Wood, BBC Sitcom Director (Not Going Out, Citizen Khan)
• Alex Pillai, Director, Da Vinci’s Demons, Robin Hood
• Chris King, the Editor of Senna and Amy which won the Best Documentary Oscar in 2016
• Lucy Drake, Casualty (BBC1)
• Iris Maor, Production Manager
• Sasha Djerkovic, Documentary Director
• Jacquie Hughes, Content Officer, Ofcom

Our students have recently won Royal Television Society awards (for Best Drama and Best Documentary Cinematography) and won last year’s Best Unscripted Programme Award at the Edinburgh Television Festival out of 2500 entries. Every year our 3^rd years pitch their graduation projects to commissioning editors at the BBC.

Work placement

You will have the opportunity to do work experience in TV or digital production as part of the course. Such placements have included BBC Studios, ITV, Sky Sports and a range of independent production companies and facility houses.

Assessment

All assessment is designed to prepare you for a career in TV and digital production. You will be assessed on areas such as production work, scripts, treatments, format ideas, and other creative and professional tasks. There are no exams. You will receive regular feedback on your projects from your tutors as well as fellow students.

How can the BA Television and Digital Production support your career?

The UK television industry, with over 50,000 employees, is one of the strongest in the world. The creative media industries workforce earn 24% more than the average income of the UK working population.

Because of the diverse nature of the degree, a wide range of exciting television and digital production roles will be open to you.

Our recent graduates have worked on such shows as The X Factor, The Only Way is Essex, Geordie Shore, Big Brother, Celebrity Juice, The Circle, Grand Designs, Location, Location, Location and Masterchef.