BA (Hons) Media Production with Professional Placement Bachelor's degree at Falmouth University

You'll discover the heart of storytelling through filmmaking. Learning fundamental production skills, you'll look at how we might express original ideas visually and audibly. The module helps you develop your sense of self-awareness and personal responsibility – including through exploration of the ethics of inclusion, and of essential health and safety.

This module is all about understanding the mechanics of impactful writing. Collaborating with students from across the School of Communication, you will examine how language shapes the experiences of audiences across different platforms. Then, through practical tasks and workshops, you will develop tools and techniques that will build your confidence in writing with clarity, empathy, and purpose, helping you to craft engaging and persuasive stories for a wide range of different channels and cont

In the first module on our News Lab series, you will learn the fundamentals of reporting, news writing and how to record and edit audio stories. You'll be supported to investigate and interrogate digital and real-world news sources to generate good story ideas and learn how to interview people with confidence.

In this module you'll learn how to develop your ideas, find stories and characters, and decide what creative storytelling you'll use to form a documentary. You'll work within industry health and safety, editorial and diversity guidelines to deal sensitively with your contributors and produce a quality piece of documentary work.

The evolution of advertising is significant to aspiring creative advertising practitioners; you'll explore its development from historical roots to today's fast-paced digital landscape. Through a series of lectures, you will be immersed in the development of the industry throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring the major concepts, people and campaigns that have shaped today's adland.

You will explore how digital media shape everyday life and, through qualitative user research and hands-on prototyping, learn to transform insights into creative design concepts. Using lo-fidelity and digital design tools you will create practical outcomes which may include an app, website concept or interactive sketch addressing media use during disruption.

Develop your multimedia storytelling skills by exploring stories connected across borders. You will focus your work - individually and collaboratively - around a theme with both local and global resonance, considering journalism's role in promoting social justice and challenging Eurocentric assumptions about news cultures. You will also learn how to use digital content management systems to present your work.

This module introduces you to the freedoms and constraints faced by content producers. Using current and historical case studies, you'll develop a working knowledge of law and ethics frameworks, to inform your practice and encourage critical discussion. A recurring theme is freedom of expression – exploring its limits and how it relates to other key human rights.

Working in an editorial group as you would in industry, you will learn and apply the business, editorial and technical skills needed to produce magazines for print and digital platforms, using industry-standard publishing software. Once you have created a new product idea, you will collaboratively identify a clear target market and build a business case to prove its potential before creating an edition of your magazine.

Building on the teamworking skills developed in the previous module, you will work with your peers and external partners to realise a collaborative project, applying your professional skills alongside valuable transferable ones, such as negotiation, problem-solving and project management. You will also develop your reflective thinking and will publish an online CV or portfolio, employing digital tools to showcase your work and skills.

Digital media and the creative industries are changing fast. In this module you will explore the contemporary creative industries and develop the skills and knowledge to shape them. Through a series of guest speakers from our network of alumni and professional connections, workshops and seminars, you will build a toolkit for working life. Reflecting on pressing issues such as the gender pay gap, racism, socioeconomic inequality, burnout, remote working, and the role of AI and digital platforms s

This module introduces you to the craft of writing for games. You'll critically consider everything from small indie titles to AAA blockbusters, from mixed reality to immersive experiences, to help you unpack writing and narrative design methods you can use in your own games, including player and non-player characterisation; environmental storytelling; and audiovisual storytelling.

Study the craft and creativity of writing for the screen (cinema, television, online). You will form a Script Development Team responsible for the development of individual writing projects. You will work individually and in a 'Writers' Room' style model. You will act as script editors as well as writers in order to see projects through to completion.

This module explores the role of brands in business and society, introducing their key components, from values, positioning, and personality to tone of voice and visual identity. You will develop the practical brand design and production skills that bring brands to life: branding tools, methods, and frameworks to identify cultural tensions and opportunities, and strategies for compelling brand-building. Alongside understanding how brands create value for businesses, you will discover how brands

You'll research, plan and develop a digital startup idea that is aligned with your creative passions or professional aspirations. Demonstrating engagement with contemporary industry trends, debates and conversations, you will conduct a combination of secondary and primary research to identify findings or insights that can be used to inform your creative practice. Through masterclasses, seminars and workshops, you will study research methods that are relevant to your discipline and chosen theme.

Placing your critical thinking and creative practice centre stage, you will create a thoroughly researched major project. Through 1-to-1 sessions with your tutor, you will define and plan the appropriate project outcomes to demonstrate how you have interpreted your research creatively. You will produce an accompanying critical evaluation or rationale and prepare your work for public showcase.

Put your professional, collaborative and digital skills into practice in a deadline-driven newsroom environment, sharing responsibility for organisation, quality and workflow. You will enhance your knowledge of editorial roles and practise them in a production cycle with live weekly outputs. You will also learn the importance of rigorous editing, and the essential creative and commercial drivers of successful production.

Complete your degree with a flourish by producing a piece of non-fiction content.