This degree encourages you to work with music and sound in exciting new ways. You will develop an impressive portfolio of technical and creative skills to prepare you for music-related careers. These include music production, audio engineering, sound and interaction design, music composition for film and TV, and sound art.

• Study in a vibrant, dynamic department with internationally recognised staff who share your passion for music.
• Train in cutting-edge facilities, including advanced recording and composition studios, as well as performance and practice spaces.
• Explore a wide range of subjects, such as music recording, studio production, composition, interactive music, acoustics, psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, and digital signal processing.
• Engage in music-making activities, from student ensembles and regular concerts to a summer music festival.
• Learn in a research-driven environment featuring world-class studios and recording facilities.
• Develop modern technical skills in digital and audio technologies.
• Collaborate with fellow students from across the Performing Arts department.
• Join the ranks of past students who have completed placements with renowned organisations like Les Miserables and the London Philharmonic.

You will learn a range of digital media production skills including cinematography, sound-design, editing and web-design, and based on those skills you will choose a specialism for your final major project.

From social media to filmmaking, journalism to advertising; Creative Media is a diverse and exciting industry to be involved in. Creative Media is such an important part of everyday life and by studying this course, you will be introduced to many new skills including filmmaking, sound-design, web design and graphic design. You’ll use industry related software and equipment such as iMacs, expect video equipment and specialist cameras. The course will allow you to explore your own interests over time and will result in you having a greater understanding of which area of Creative Media you wish to explore as a career.

The Level 3 in Creative Media Production is a nationally recognised qualification which has been designed to provide a highly specialist work-related programme of study. The Entry Level 3 programme gives you the knowledge, understanding and skills that are needed to prepare for employment within a general or in a particular Media sector.

The qualification is a workshop and studies based, hands-on course that can include print and film through varied set and negotiated projects and fundamentally to further develop your creative thinking and individuality.

This course is in the School of Arts and Creative Industries

The course develops diverse skills in the world of make-up and hair to produce flexible creative make-up artists able to work in a variety of areas of the industry from special effects to fashion and from live events to film TV and stage productions.

This course prepares you for a career as a make-up artist in television film theatre prosthetics advertising and fashion with a special focus on creating convincing and realistic special effects. It gives you the techniques craft skills and specialist knowledge employers are looking for.

You learn to research and realise characters through hair and wig setting; postiche; costume; prop design; prosthetics; and designing effects make-up.

You benefit from working within our high-spec media facilities alongside student actors producers scriptwriters and presenters as well as collaborating with local theatres TV productions and performances at the University’s professional theatre