Course summary

The Foundation Year in Media is taught via a blended approach by the same lecturing staff who teach on our degree courses. You'll be taught in online seminars, webinars, virtual lectures and use student interaction and co-creation to learn new material. Collaborative online tools for creative media production is at the core of our teaching and you'll learn through carefully considered online materials and specialists; essentially practice together what you have learned during synchronous and asynchronous online activities. We actively encourage you to get involved in events to feel part of the Middlesex community. With the support of former Media Foundation Year students, we hold regular social meet ups where you can get to know each other and share your experiences. We provide opportunities for you to collaborate on projects with other students across the degree programmes and every year, we have opportunities for you to work on live briefs designed by professionals in their fields. This course will allow you to develop transferable skills in media, communication and problem-solving. At the core of our approach to online leaning and teaching is student interaction. In all of our programmes, you'll have the opportunity to interact with each other and complete classwork using online collaborative tools. You’ll be following in the footsteps of a long list of decorated alumni, the likes of which have gone on to work on the latest Star Wars productions, for Disney, the BBC, set up their own companies and continued their studies at the National Film and Television School. Year on year, our students produce outstanding, industry standard films that are distributed across many short film festivals including Dessert (North Hollywood Film Festival, best thriller, 2019); Natia (KinoFilm, Best Student Short, 2017), Natia (Underwire Film Festival [BAFTA recognised festival], Best Film in the Under 25 category, 2017); Potty the Plant (Learning on Screen award for best student film, 2018); Chopsticks! (Learning on Screen award for best student film, AND Special Jury Prize, 2019), as well as many Royal Television Society awards. You’ll have our state-of-the-art facilities at your fingertips to help develop your own creative identity and produce your best possible work, including: a TV production studio designed by Sony, post-production suites for editing, colour grading and sound editing, a sound dubbing studio for mixing Dolby Atmos, studios for recording ADR and foley, and a motion capture and greenscreen virtual studio. You will also have access to our equipment loan store, The Kit Hub, where you can borrow a vast range of cameras, lighting and sound kit. As we head up the UK-wide Creative Campus Network, you will benefit from information and opportunities from our industry contacts. In addition, we are partnered with Film London, ScreenSkills and the GLA Creative Academy to provide you with free access to additional industry-recognised resources and training. Our partnerships with Avid, Canon and others mean that you'll benefit from top equipment and development opportunities to help you with your future career. Middlesex University is fortunate to be surrounded by film studios, with which we have established relationships allowing our students to find work placement and experience opportunities. Several of our students have worked at the London North Studios, as runners/marshals or set builders with Brandon B whose video work is seen by millions around the world. Introducing our new Learning Framework After working with our students to gather feedback on what they love most about our courses, we’re making some changes to how we structure and teach our programmes for the start of the 2024/25 academic year. You can find more information about how this course is affected by viewing the relevant course information sheet on our Learning Framework page: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/study/learning-framework/