BA (Hons) Media Production with Media and Communications Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at the University of Lincoln

Within the professional context of radio and television studio production, students will learn practical skills alongside critical thinking, contextual studies and problem solving.

Cultivating Creativity is a first-year interdisciplinary module designed to develop students' creative thinking and industry awareness. The module fosters curiosity, ideation, and practical application while equipping students with essential academic, creative and professional skills. Through engagement with contemporary issues, students will explore how these topics intersect with their chosen industry contexts.

This module equips students with the core creative and technical skills essential for today's film and media practitioners. Through hands-on workshops and practical exercises, students will gain experience with key production and post-production tools, developing creative confidence and knowledge of practice workflows and industry standards. Learning is consolidated through a reflective journal that captures technical progress, creative experimentation, and future applications in media practice.

This module provides a structured, year-long journey through the development, research, production, and reflection processes underpinning contemporary media practice. Students progress from ideation and contextual exploration in Semester A to the realisation of a completed studio-based production in Semester B. The syllabus integrates television studio practice, audio-based communication, and digital graphics, enabling students to develop a coherent creative concept across multiple media platfor

This module introduces students to the historical development, formats, and cultural practices of criticism across film, television, and screen media. It explores the distinctions and overlaps between criticism, reviewing, and analysis, developing students' understanding of how each operates within different professional and cultural contexts. Through collaborative discussion and close engagement with a range of media texts, students will strengthen their ability to articulate informed interpret

This practice-based module introduces students to the core creative and technical skills involved in digital content production across a range of media forms. It places emphasis on experimentation, creative exploration, technical proficiency, and an understanding of how different tools and approaches can be combined in contemporary production workflows. Students will engage with professional practices in motion graphics, product and mobile videography, AI-assisted image generation, and real-time

Your learning on this module encourages you to be adaptive and inquisitive in the face of change, equipping you with the critical awareness and agility needed to navigate a rapidly shifting media landscape. Alongside theoretical inquiry, you will engage in practical experimentation with selected emerging technologies or tools, analysing their creative potential through testing and evaluation. You will communicate your findings through research-led creative outputs, such as a video essay or anoth

Expanded Film invites students into the world of experimental and artist-led moving-image practice. Through screenings, lectures and hands-on workshops, the module explores how filmmakers and visual artists challenge conventional storytelling to create bold, alternative screen works. Students experiment with a range of techniques and forms, such as expanded cinema, installation, video essay and title-sequence design, while developing their own short experimental artefact. Along the way, they lea

This module introduces students to experimental approaches within animation, encouraging exploration beyond conventional workflows through the use of 2D rigs, hybrid techniques, and emerging digital tools. Students engage in short practical projects that integrate traditional animation principles with innovative processes, developing confidence in creative risk-taking and technical experimentation. By testing the boundaries of animation practice, students broaden their understanding of how alter

Sound for Visual Media equips and empowers you to apply fundamental sound production skills in a variety of visual media contexts. Through a range of industry-aligned methods and practices, you will create complex soundtracks in response to specific visual media, drawing on key principles and theories of sound.

Creative Collaboration is a Level 5 shared core module that develops students' ability to work effectively with others in the conception, development, and presentation of creative media projects. Through a series of intensive design sprints, students will collaborate in small groups to respond to a set of themed creative challenges aligned with real-world contexts such as social impact, sustainability, and emerging cultural practices. The module emphasises collaboration as a creative and profess

In this module, students will create their first significant piece of narrative-led production, developing their project for a specific audience and taking on key roles in its creation, before testing it upon completion.

This practical, skills-based module focuses on designing and producing high-impact short-form content for the promotion of products and branded campaigns. It moves beyond introductory skill-building, asking students to apply their technical knowledge in professional-style production pipelines while developing creative direction, planning and