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Media Production at Liverpool John Moores University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Liverpool John Moores University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

Why study Media Production at Liverpool John Moores University?

  • Turn your creativity and passions into a Content Creator career
  • Designed with students in collaboration with practitioners and industry
  • As well as the traditional media formats, explore the foundations and boundaries of Mixed Realities Production enabling you to innovate and inspire using hands-on, active learning
  • Build the toolkit and adaptable attitude to gain employment in the highly competitive and rewarding creative industries
  • 95% of students surveyed said the teaching staff on our media courses were good at explaining things (National Student Survey 2024)
  • The Liverpool Screen School is a BAFTA albert Education Partner and proud to be working with albert to arm students with the sustainability knowledge they’ll need when joining the screen industries. BAFTA albert is the leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability
About your course This BA (Hons) Media Production degree at Liverpool John Moores University is next generation focused. The course is a creative industries training ground with an emphasis on both the traditional craft skills and studio models as well as the emerging crafts of mixed realities. We are a hands-on, active learning programme. We show, then you do. You will use various hardware and software solutions in response to the creative, theoretical, and critical challenges set. You will learn the traditional preproduction, production and postproduction skills of Moving Image and Audio Fiction and Non-fiction shorts. You will also explore Audio podcasting and live environments. You have the option of a TV Studio project in your second year, culminating in a live broadcast of a show you develop from scratch with your team. The newest strand of the design champions Digital Workflows and explores areas such as Immersive/Interactive storytelling, 360, VR and AR. Virtual Production is moving fast, and we invite you to join us in exploring the foundations and new craft skills required to be successful in this field. In your final year, the Digital Disruption module invites you to take all the hardware and software craft skills you have developed and to break the rules - a digital sandbox to innovate and inspire. This is a programme carefully designed by our students in collaboration with the delivery team and industry professionals. There is a new storytelling, marketing, development, and distribution strand that will help you understand how to capitalise on your creativity and turn passions in to a living. Students were quite passionate in the redesign asking, How do we sell ourselves?. This lead to the inclusion of the Digital Marketing, development and Distribution modules on the programme to strengthen the graduate toolkit. Our industry strand ensures you graduate with the key tools to gain employment along with your degree. That being a CV, showreel and online presence. This is an exciting, rewarding industry but it is hard work and requires you to show up and put the energy in. If you do this, it will be a transformative experience culminating in your final major project. A calling card to industry that we can all to be proud of. We look forward to helping you set out on your lifelong journey in the Creative Industries.

Modules

Please visit the Liverpool John Moores University website for detailed module information.

Assessment method

Assessment varies depending on the modules you choose, but will usually include a combination of exams and coursework. We acknowledge that all students perform differently depending on how they are assessed, which is why we use a combination of assessment methods. These include: written work (essays, etc), presentations (group/individual), practical assessments (individual and team projects), producing web content, video productions both factual and fiction, studio and location, interactive products and portfolios (including e-portfolios).

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • ScreenSkills

How to apply

29Jan

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

Course code:
P300
Institution code:
L51
Campus name:
Mount Pleasant Campus
Campus code:
M

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Prior to starting the programme applicants must have obtained Grade C or Grade 4 or above in English Language and Mathematics GCSE or an approved alternative qualification below: • Key Skills Level 2 in English/ Maths • NVQ Level 2 Functional skills in Maths and English Writing and/or Reading • Skills for Life Level 2 in Numeracy/English • Higher Diploma in Maths/ English • Functional Skills Level 2 in Maths/ English • Northern Ireland Essential Skills Level 2 in Communication or Application of Number • Wales Essential Skills Level 2 in Communication or Application of Number

Additional entry requirements

Other

Assessment of suitability to the course will include reviewing a piece of media you have created yourself or contributed to and your answers to a set of questions. You will be asked to submit these after you apply.

Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students

There is no data available for this course. For further information visit the Discover Uni website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Channel Islands £9535 Year 1
England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
EU £17750 Year 1
International £17750 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.

Sponsorship information

Please see our Bursaries and Scholarships page for more information: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/discover/fees-and-funding/bursaries-and-scholarships

Media Production at Liverpool John Moores University - UCAS