BA (Hons) Media Production Bachelor's degree at Wrexham University

This module is an introduction to sound production, manipulation and editing for media practitioners, musicians, prospective sound and media engineers and installation artists. The course focuses on the implementation of sound systems in small to medium scale installations, and the techniques involved in studio-based audio production.

This will introduce you to screen techniques: camera, lighting, narrative and editing, enabling you to understand the principles of lighting for screen media. You will engage as a team member in the screen media production environment, and gain critical and analytical understanding of style and genre.

The aim of the module is to establish the factors that define quality with regards to recording quality, deliverables and other production values. This module will deliver technical competence within the process of recording, editing and mixing. This module aims specifically to focus on the recording methods required for the various formats for Podcast production.

This module will provide an introduction to the life of media professionals, working artists and designers and to create an awareness of career opportunities. You will examine contemporary practitioners and their working philosophies and assess their influence in the specialist field through industrial visits, exhibitions and design festivals, guest talks and media professional lectures.

This module introduces you to creative practice through your own specialist environment and explores the significance of creative environments as it pertains to a portfolio career in the media and communications industries.

This module has been designed to give you the opportunity to critically analyse emerging online trends used by creative freelance professionals to create a branded online presence of your own.

This module gives you the opportunity to consider digital media editing techniques in the context of the modern media industry. You will further develop create editing techniques and will also explore advanced workflow and editing techniques including topics such as data exchange, software shortcuts and collaborative workflow. In the early part of the module, you will explore audio and screen-based workflows. In the latter part of the module, learning and assessment activities will concentrate o

This module will allow you to explore image manipulation techniques using Visual effects applications. This will include Keying, blend operations, tracking and colour correction. This will develop your understanding of the values of different image data types.

The aim of this module is to establish the factors that define quality in recording practice with regard to structure, microphone technique and other production values. This module will deliver technical competence within the process of recording, editing and mixing. This module aims specifically to focus on the recording methods required for various screen formats and also for television production.

This course aims to further develop your awareness of career opportunities and the professional life of working artists and designers. To establish business systems related to design, production and marketing. To develop professional standards of practice.

The content of this module is designed to introduce you to the concepts and practice of applied research. This will be achieved through the examination of trends in technology and the external cultural/technological factors that have led to its success or failure. This module offers the opportunity to develop a firm base of research skills to support your progress in subsequent modules and further study. Underpinning this is the understanding of how an extended piece of academic writing is const

This module explores approaches to storytelling through the use of modern digital media production and digital dissemination techniques. You will learn the techniques and strategies practitioners use to tell digital stories, or present storytelling narratives through the digital media production and the digital dissemination of sound, images and text.

In this module, you will produce a piece of research based on an existing or emergent theme from within the degree structure. The culmination of course-work through the dissertation will be an academic development displaying your knowledge of subjects of study. Required knowledge and skills from all previous modules, together with the key skills – investigation, planning, self-management, evaluation, presentation, and report writing will be expected of you as a creative media technology student.

The project brings together all of your subjects of study, requiring knowledge, and skills from all previous modules. The module will provide you with the opportunity to practice the problem-solving activities of a creative engineer, and to explore original ideas.

This module addresses the technical and artistic values involved with developing a professional audio post-production process. The theory will explore and support the techniques required to produce sound for TV, film and portable media.

This module is intended to develop your ability to work as part of a team, and to produce and manage a professional brief to the criteria set by an external client.

This module is designed to allow you to identify, critically examine and debate a range of current and social issues in media and television, such as the implications of new technologies on those working in the industry and those in the audience.