Digital Media Design

Description

The course has been leading the way for fifteen years within the world renowned Media School, and is closely partnered with Centre for Excellence in Media Practice as well as leading industry partners such as Adobe.

Our world-class technical production and research facilities include two dedicated Programme Labs, the Experimental Media Lab, Open Access Media Labs within the Media School, hardware equipment such as tablets, mobile phones, Kinect sensors and Programme specific audio/ visual equipment. Our state-of-the-art facilities are complemented by our staff recognised in their own areas of Interactive Media, Design and Research who work alongside world leading external industry speakers brought in across the Media School.

What will I study?

Through designing, directing and developing digital technology and media across a range of emerging platforms, you will enjoy the challenge of working at the cutting edge of advanced digital media production environments

You will gain a solid grounding of key principles, ideas and the theory of design, technology and contexts of digital media, be it for the web, mobile devices, games, gallery or museum

You will combine digital design, coding and creative software skills with animation, writing, sound and video. You will be designing for online media and advertising, social media applications, advanced online games, physical media installations for exhibitions and mobile apps

You will also be exposed to new and emerging innovations in digital media technologies and be able to follow emerging trends and formats, especially within the final year projects and dissertation.

Who should do this course?

This course is aimed at students who want to work at an advanced level in the digital media industry and provide employers with evidence of insight, intellect and creative innovation

What can I do next?

Our graduates go on to work for leading media organisations such as Google, BBC and Sky as well as media industry specialists and creative digital agencies

Recent graduate roles include Digital or online media producers, Creative directors, Lead digital designers, Creative coders and Digital media strategists

View the career opportunities for our BA (Hons) Digital Media Design graduates

Many of our graduates go on to study a Postgraduate course at BU.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 12500 Year (International)

For 2014 entry:

• UK/EU/Channel Islands: £9,000
• International (non-EU): £12,500

• English

Course Content

Throughout the programme, you create dynamic interactive media artefacts such as mobile phone applications, 3D games and websites. These are built by utilising coding languages such as HTML 5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery Mobile as well as software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, PhoneGap, Final Cut Pro and Unity 3D. However, applicants do not necessarily have to have any programming skills before starting the course.

Year One - Level C

Developing Arguments

Concept and Ideation

Development and Realisation

Discipline and Research

Design for Digital Media Environments

Collaborative Project

Year Two - Level I

Media Theory Perspectives

Design Iterations

Applied Design

Debates and Scholarship

Year Three – 4 week or, optional, 40 week placement.

Year Three or Four - Level H (depending on your placement)

Dissertation

Developing Media Design Concepts

Industry Perspectives

The Graduate Production Project

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

Tariff points

The entry requirements for this course are 280 to 300 tariff points, from 3 A-levels, or equivalent qualifications. BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM

Relevant subjects

English Language, Psychology, Sociology, Maths, Art and Design, Photography, Communication Studies, Media Studies, Computing and Music

Excluded subjects

General Studies.

GCSEs

This course requires a minimum of 5 GCSEs or equivalent at grades A* to C, including Maths and English.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Bournemouth University.

Funding

Non-repayable funding and awards:

BU scholarships - that recognise academic, sporting and musical excellence

BU bursaries - additional funding support for students who have been in care and/or are from lower income families

Maintenance grants - awarded by your funding authority, based on your household income

Disabled Students' Allowance - you can apply for this allowance if you have a: disability, long-term health condition, mental health condition or a specific learning difficulty

NHS and social work bursaries - to cover tuition fees and living costs for those studying on NHS funded courses

Accreditation

Bournemouth University is an innovative, international university offering high quality student experience, research and professional practice. Here are ten reasons why you should choose BU.

1. BU Graduate employment rates are consistently high at over 90% and BU has more students on a work placement than any other university in England.

2. BU is based on the south coast of England and is recognised as one of the most innovative universities in the UK; bringing together professional and academic excellence. BU has a community of almost 17,000 students from over 100 different countries, while 5,982 students graduated from BU in 2012 alone.

3. Our research offering is amongst the best in the country. In the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), eight out of 10 areas assessed featured research that was adjudged to be ‘world leading’ and BU was the fourth most improved university in the UK for the quality of its research.

4. The Media School at Bournemouth University has been designated as the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) in the UK by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and is home to the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA). Our School of Tourism has been designated as a Centre of Excellence in Tourism by the World Tourism Organisation. BU is also the number one research centre in the world for fish biology.

5. In 2012 BU was awarded the The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its contribution to world-leading excellence and pioneering development in computer animation.

6. £138 million is to be invested in our campuses and IT facilities by 2018. The first major project is the construction of a new Student Centre. This new building will be a decisive step towards improving the student experience at BU. It responds to the need for high quality spaces where students can engage collaboratively in social learning and study activities with full access to a range of integrated services.

7. With BU’s Lansdowne Campus near the centre of Bournemouth and Talbot Campus three miles inland on the boundary of Bournemouth and Poole, BU is an important player in the local economy and is widely involved in enriching the local community as well as its students.

8. In 2013, for the fourth year running, BU received a first class honours (The Guardian newspaper, the People and Planet Green league table) for its commitment to environmental and ethical improvement. The first class award reflects a comprehensive environmental programme that is underway at BU, including an EcoCampus award for BU’s environmental management systems, a challenging carbon reduction target with over 20 projects completed to date and the roll out of a food waste recycling scheme.

9. Following in the steps of NCCA graduate Andy Lockley who won an Oscar in 2011 for his visual effects work on the film Inception, over 80 BU graduates were involved in four out of the five animated films nominated for the Visual Effects & Animation Oscar in 2012; 2013 saw NCCA graduates celebrate Oscar and BAFTA success with their work on the Life of Pi, The Hobbit, Snow White and the Huntsman, Les Miserables and Skyfall.

10. We are the first university to have achieved a "commended" judgement for the quality of student learning opportunities from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), the highest award possible. The QAA look at many areas of how an institution supports students, including the quality of teaching students receive, academic support, the resources available to students including the library and IT facilities, and the general support they receive. For more information about the future plans in this area please see the BU Action Plan. September 2013.