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Course summary
This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview Understand the emerging technology that’s changing the ways animation, film, games and TV are created, and create digital content throughout your study. With this Virtual Production degree, you will develop your technical and creative skills via real-time skills, 3D modelling and coding using our cutting-edge labs and studios. This will include creating high-quality content for LED screens behind the actors, virtual mapping using VR and game technology and capturing performance for characters and fantasy creatures using motion capture. Throughout your study, you’ll be using the School of Creative Technology’s specialist equipment to create virtual experiences. You’ll also be supported by staff with academic, technical and professional expertise in the field, giving you a friendly environment to express your creativity freely as you develop your abilities. You’ll graduate with the skills to enter one of the UK’s most rapidly growing industries, or to follow your specialism into postgraduate study. Whatever path you choose, you’ll have the expertise to work with current virtual production practice and the understanding to take on all future opportunities. Course highlights
- Study with experts in a burgeoning field, using industry-standard software and studio equipment
- Explore potential career paths, such as real-time filmmaking, games and real-time animation
- Investigate the potential in virtual production technology, and understand possible routes to developments in the field
- Work with supportive staff and students from related courses in the School, such as Computer Animation or Interactive Technologies
- Take up a work placement between your second and third years of study, or a shorter placement while you learn
Modules
Year 1
- Coding and Scripting for Games (20 credits)
- Film Craft (20 credits)
- Introduction to Real-Time 3D (20 credits)
- Modelling for Animation & Vfx (20 credits)
- Virtual Production Research (20 credits)
- Virtual Production Studio (20 credits)
- Creative Research and Project Initiation (20 credits)
- Virtual Cinematography (20 credits)
- Virtual Reality Development (20 credits)
- Commercial Asset Production for Real Time (40 credits)
- Creative Technologies Study Exchange (60 credits)
- Creative Technologies Study Exchange (60 credits)
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice (20 credits)
- Professional Experience (20 credits)
- Real-Time Animation and Vfx Project (20 credits)
- Student Enterprise (20 credits)
- Create Worlds (20 credits)
- Final Year Project (40 credits)
- Motion Capture Applications (20 credits)
- Virtual Production Group Project - Part One (20 credits)
- Virtual Production Group Project - Part Two (20 credits)
How to apply
31Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you'd like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 - 120 points
A level - BBB - BBC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 25 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H3
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - M
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. | |
| PTE Academic | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. | |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. | |
| Trinity ISE | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components | |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) and Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015) An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) and Proficiency (CPE) (taken after January 2015) An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £9250 | Year 1 |
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| International | £17900 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship
Placement Year and Year abroad:
UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £1,385
EU – £1,385 (including Transition Scholarship)|
International (Non-EU) – £2,875.
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP