Course summary

If you’ve already completed a related Foundation Degree or HND, our BA (Hons) Film and Media Production (top-up) course offers you Honours-level skills and knowledge ready to boost your career opportunities. Our expert team will support you to extend your ability to find and tell imaginative and diverse stories that resonate with audiences everywhere. The media and creative industries are flourishing and the North West is the key digital powerhouse outside of London. Traditional career routes in areas such as film and TV continue to seek new recruits, but exciting opportunities are also available with the broad range of organisations that now need moving images for their websites, social media platforms and promotional adverts. They want people who can create new and interesting content using their great storytelling skills and sound knowledge of the production process and workflow. This course aims to prepare you for a career in this exciting sector and offers transferable employability skills such as resilience, adaptability and team-working that are highly attractive to employers. Your learning on this highly practical digital media production course is underpinned by critical and theoretical study, putting story at the heart of production. Our dedicated industry-experienced staff will support you to develop honours-level academic and research skills and guide you as you expand your experience and outlook in relation to the world of film, media and the digital creative industries. We’ll also help cultivate your critical thinking skills, enabling you to challenge, question and explore the world around you and feed this into your creative work. Our experienced team take pride in getting to know our students as individuals, and you can become part of our welcoming and supportive production family. Offering you the chance to share in our immense wealth of award-winning industry experience, this course allows you to explore the various gateways into the vibrant media industry in North West England.