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Head of Division: Peter Dean
We are here to help you become a creative media practitioner and to prepare you for critical citizenship.
We offer a range of courses that will allow you to develop a career within many different media organisations and many different roles.
You will learn about how the media is produced, controlled and consumed as we work with you to develop your professional practice.
You will learn new production skills and you will learn how to apply them to the creation of original and imaginative media products that will showcase your skills to prospective employers.
A key feature of our courses is the opportunity to collaborate with students from other courses. So, for example, you can engage in joint projects with students from Media Performance, Journalism or Creative Writing.
Music Technology students can work with film makers, performers and games producers to create sophisticated media-based projects as well as originating and performing their own work.
There is a wide variety of state-of-the-art facilities available to students on our media and degrees.
You will benefit from our £5.5m Media Arts Centre, which houses a broadcast television studio, performance theatre and performance studio, digital radio studios, ten digital video editing suites, electronic newsrooms, a white space studio, multimedia suites, and creative writing labs, with additional studios for online and design work.
We
also offer a Media Hub where students can borrow the latest digital
equipment, including cameras, MP3 recorders, location lighting and
audio equipment.
All the equipment can be borrowed overnight or over the weekend, which comes in really handy when you have practical assignments to do.
The Guardian 2007 league table placed Bedfordshire 3rd in the country for media-related courses, and the 2008 National student survey placed Bedfordshire in the top 6 in the country for student satisfaction.
You will benefit from a first-class research culture within the Research Institute for Media Art and Design.
We have strong links with industry including international companies such as JVC, national organisations such as the BBC and you will benefit from our proximity to London, home to national and international media companies and performance venues.
There are opportunities for you to engage with professionals from the industries and we have a full programme of visiting speakers from the creative industries who also contribute to our careers days.
Many
of our lecturers and academic staff have been actively involved in the
creative industries for many years prior to joining us. Most have
worked, and some continue to work in journalism and broadcasting, film,
theatre, and radio and television companies from BBC to Reuters.
Students can benefit from the expertise and experience of academic staff, and even gain work experience on current projects that our staff are working on, such as BBC's Question Time.
Lecturers will provide you with the latest, and most up to date information, skills and techniques and knowledge (drawn from their own working experiences) that you will need in order to break into this notoriously competitive industry.
This video has been produced, filmed and edited by Hayley Maidment and Mustafa Hassan (TV Production, Level 2 students). The presenters are Davinia Levene Dillon and AJ Bediako (Media Performance, Level 2 students). The student interviewee is Laura Bianchini (Media Performance, Level 2 student).
