Week 1 induction presentation for UoB BA (Hons) TV & DMP students.

1. BA (Hons) Television and
Digital Media Production
Academic Programme in Media
School of Art, Design and Media
Faculty of Arts

2. Future Proof Your TV Career
 New course
 Aimed at those wanting to
work in Television
 Working WITH changes that
are happening in the media
 Combines theoretical
learning, production skills,
creative thinking and
business acumen.

3. Prepare yourself for the
workplace
Graduates will be…
• Be responsive.
• Be quick thinking.
• Be pragmatic.
• Be adaptable.

4. The T-Shaped Professional

5. How will we do this?
• Rich mix of project work.
• Specialist strands.
• Relevant and contemporary
theory.
• Cutting edge modules.
• Creation of sophisticated online
profile.
• You begin the course as
practitioners, taking the first step
on your professional career.

6. Production Skills
 Taught by industry
professionals
 Staff have broadcast
backgrounds.
 Visiting Lecturers drawn
straight out of industry.
 Tasks and projects based on
professional briefs and
expectations.
 Allow you to develop a range
of skills and to begin to focus
in on specialist areas.

7. Creative Thinking
 Ideas will be the lifeblood of your
career.
 You will develop ideas, projects and
pitches all the time.
 You will learn to respond to briefs, to
clients, to requests.
 You will work in an environment
where you’re not afraid of testing a
theory or trying something out.

8. Theoretical Learning
 Academic learning underpins this
work.
 It is what makes you a self aware
practitioner.
 It makes you critical
 You will be the kind of person who
wants to instigate change rather
than just responds to it.

9. Business Acumen
 These ideas, these skills and
the knowledge are nothing
unless you what to do with
them.
 You will learn how to
position yourself and your
work in the digital and
creative industries.
 You will learn to set up a
business, create budgets,
source funds and deliver to
clients.

10. Staff
 Staff Skills and Specialisms have to fit together like a
jigsaw.
 Only then do you get a fully rounded education
and the learning you need to prepare you for
industry.
 Our course team has the integrated skill set required
to deliver this course.
 They are current professionals with a wealth of
experience.
 Where we don’t know something then we bring in
specialist from across industry.

11. Resources and Facilities
• Accredited Training
• High end TV studio
• Sound studios.
• Edit Suites
• Mac Labs
• Kit store brimming with latest
equipment (which you can borrow
in term time whenever you need
to).

12. But this is an Honours Degree!
 More enquiring
 Not just training
 Rounding you out as a person.
 Helping you to look at and think
about the world differently.
 Your staff don’t teach from text
books – we write the text books!
 Make you the sort of person who
can lead and instigate change –
not just react to it.

13. What will you leave with?
 Broad understanding of the
TV and media industry.
 Range of skills.
 Experience working with
diverse people.
 Preparedness for a rapidly
changing world of work.
 Online portfolio.
 Contacts.

14. What jobs could you do?
 Director
 Assistant Director
 Executive Producer
 Line Producer
 Multi-Camera Director
 Multi-media experience
designer.
 Web and Online Producer
 Producer
 Casting Director
 Script Writer
 Story Producer
 Researcher
 Start-Up Founder
 Creative Entrepreneur

15. A Few Rules about how things
work
Each year is split into modules.
Each module has a value (either 20
or 40 credits).
You need to pass 120 credits to get
to the next Level.
Fail and the are chances to retrieve
modules.
You don’t earn you degree without
passing 3 years of modules (i.e. 360
credits).
Your final grade is calculated on
your average mark in the final year.

16. What exactly will you be
studying?
1st YEAR
Core skills and ideas
Practice Foundations: Digital TV Industry: Understanding Audiences:
Introduction to Media Theory and practical electives (TV or Digital Media).
2nd YEAR
Building on skills and finding your specialism
Core Practice: Television Drama: Factual Entertainment: Immersive Media
and practical electives (Cinematography, Scriptwriting or Production
Management).
3rd YEAR
Realising your ideas and planning for the future
Final Project: Portfolio: Placement: Enterprise and practical electives (Comedy
Writing, Pervasive Media, Entertainment TV or Documentary Production)
Work Sample found at: http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/broadcastmedia/work/

17. Introduction to Media Theory
 Provides a bedrock for the
rest of your theoretical
learning.
 Basic media study
concepts, ideas and
readings.
 Essential to complete
degree.
 You will write an essay at
the end of the first semester.
 Led by

18. Digital TV Industry
 First Semster.
 Introduces you to
theoretical and practical
thinking about TV.
 Discuss changes in format
and the impacts this has.
 Write an essay and develop
a programme idea
 Led by Dr Dario Llinares.

19. Practice Foundations
 First and Second Semester.
 40 credits.
 Provides the practical
backbone of your course.
 First semester focuses on
factual production, the
second on drama.
 Learning camera, lights,
script, edit.
 Led by Philip Connolly and
Catherine Donaldson.

20. New Media Audiences.
 Led by Dario Llinares
 Takes ideas developed in the
first semester and extends
them.
 Look at how digital and web
media change audiences.
 Consider how are creators
you need to respond to this.
 Develop a new media
marketing campaign and
write an essay.
 Led by Dr Dario Llinares

21. Practical Option
Live TV Production
 Studio based.
 Multi-camera
 Work in teams producing
live content with industry
specialist.
 Practical module.
 Intended for those
interested in working in Live
TV.
Digital Media Design
 Web based.
 Learn basic web, design
and editing skills.
 Individual work preparing
you for work in digital
industries.
 Provides you with a useful
set of skills with which to
market yourself.

22. Support – talk to someone
 University is hard.
 The are lots of challenges.
 The staff are on your side.
 Personal Tutor you meet at
least once a semester.
Discuss academic issues.
 Student Support are on
hand to discuss personal
issues.
 Feedback via Student Reps.

23. Student Reps
 We need to decide who
they are…
 Two meetings a year
 We need representatives
who can talk for the group,
show up for the meetings,
take things seriously and
present a balanced
impression of the course.

24.  You have your induction
programme… don’t you?
 You’ll meet me again later
in the week for a quick chat
and get together.
 Dario has set you a very
simple induction task to get
things going.