This course is Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice. The main aim on this course is to get our students into industry, which we do by immersing them into a proper working environment. Technical skills are taught to a very high level by industry professionals an
Entry Requirements
Applicants should have at least 4 GCSE's at Grade C or above or other relevant qualifications.
Careers/Progression
Former students have gone on to work for the BBC, UTV, Sky and a wide variety of independent production companies. Approximately nine out of ten students who complete progress to university; we have academic partnerships with the UK`s top TV training college, Ravensbourne, the University of Westminster and the University of Northumbria. As well as TV production, students also progress into related areas like film-making, journalism, marketing, PR, publishing and multimedia.
Course Content
On this Multi Award winning course, students will use the Media Department's extensive range of up-to-date equipment. This course has everything a modern film maker needs, from top of the range video cameras and DSLRs to great portable lighting and sound kits and even a drone. Along with this editing suites with the best editing software in the world and a top class HD broadcast-standard television studio.
As well as benefiting from a top equipment specification, the course is delivered by media professionals, with connections to industry, backed up with visits, eg, to BBC and specialist guest speakers.
Over a two-year period, you will work on a number of practical projects, assimilating the skills and techniques used by professionals the world over. By the end of the course your level of training and portfolio of visual work will be such that you will be equipped to enter the industry, or proceed to a related University Degree.
You will study a range of units including:
Making Music Videos
Editing
Shooting Short Films
Making Documentaries
Scriptwriting
Presenting and Interviewing
Making Advertisements
TV Graphics
Corporate Video
Working with real-world clients.
If you are accepted onto this course without a Grade C or above in Maths and/or English you will be required to complete the relevant Essential Skills qualification. This will be a compulsory part of your timetable.
Course Aims
This course is Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice. The main aim on this course is to get our students into industry, which we do by immersing them into a proper working environment. Technical skills are taught to a very high level by industry professionals and students regularly work with external, real-world clients.
Organisations like the BBC, the National Trust, charities and businesses and local government have used work from our students. TV & film professionals visit the course to share their insight and experience.
Students in turn visit television stations and participate in industry organised workshops, events and trips. We also partner with specialist universities, ideally placing students to enter the industry.
About
Northern Regional College is the main provider of further education across four of the 11 council areas in Northern Ireland, covering a population of over 560,000.
We offer a comprehensive range of qualifications for school leavers, full and part-time courses for adults, apprenticeships, professional qualifications and university accredited courses as well as providing a range of business services to support the business community.
We are one College with six campuses - Ballymoney, Ballymena (Farm Lodge and Trostan Avenue), Coleraine, Magherafelt and Newtownabbey and have now embarked on an exciting £84 million investment to redevelop our Coleraine and Ballymena campus where we will move from six to four campuses by 2024.
At Northern Regional College we teach over 10,000 students - 5,500 further education, 1,000 higher education and nearly 1,000 apprentices.
Many of our lecturers continue to work as industry professionals and offer extensive knowledge and experience of their specialist area helping to equip our students with the knowledge and skills they need to prepare them for the world of work.
The College has extensive well-equipped workshops and classrooms with the latest equipment and facilities to meet industry standards.
Northern Regional College has courses across 3 academic departments - Business & Service Industries, Health,
Social Care and Access, and Advanced Technologies. We constantly review and develop our curriculum to ensure that all courses meet the needs of industry and economy demands.
No matter what subject or qualification you choose, your course will be geared towards helping you to enhance your career prospects. Search online today and find the right course for you.
This vocational media production course will introduce learners to the production skills needed to get started in the film and television industry.
In four weeks, you will take a film project from script to screen, gaining a comprehensive and invaluable grounding in the essential filmmaking principles.
This one-day film school skills workshop aimed at new filmmakers. It is an intensive workshop covering the basics of filmmaking.
According to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) the UK’s creative industries sector added œ109billion to the economy in 2021 and accounted for 2.29 million industry jobs that year.
Students will have the opportunity to operate as part of a crew on a high quality short film with professional actors and receive one-to-one support from working film industry experts. All the main aspects of filmmaking are taught, including professional sound recording, casting and producing.
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