**Overview**
If you’re bursting with creative ideas and want to inject them into a career in media, this degree gives you the skills that will bring your ideas to life.
On this BSc (Hons) Creative Media Technologies degree course, you’ll develop the abilities you need to create engaging content across all types of media. You’ll get to know your way around professional software packages and emerge ready to take on ambitious content projects in fields such as web development, content marketing, TV production and animation.
**What you'll experience**
On this Creative Media Technologies degree course, you'll:
- Get to grips with the software and packages you’ll use in your creative career, including Photoshop, Illustrator and Avid and Animate
- Learn from experts with bags of experience in the industry
- Enjoy a varied curriculum – you’ll get to create videos, craft animations, code games, build websites and develop mobile and virtual reality (VR) applications
- Use our facilities, packed with the latest tech, including a VR lab, motion capture suite and green screening studio
- Tailor your degree to meet your interests and workplace ambitions
- Build a professional portfolio of your work
- Work on projects with real clients
**Careers and opportunities**
You’ll graduate with an understanding of a range of creative digital tools that will open doors many jobs across almost every creative field including:
- web development
- animation
- video production
- gaming
- music production
- TV production
Roles previous students on this course have taken on include:
- computer games animator
- 3D modeller
- web designer
- graphics artist
- video film-maker
- broadcast journalist
- games developer
- musical technician
Many graduates have also gone on to form their own web design, event management, and video production companies or have built successful freelance careers.
Our Careers and Employability will support you in finding a role or setting up a business. You'll get help and support for up to 5 years after you leave the University.
Course Details - Modules
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Digital Culture and the Creative Industries
- Introduction to Computer Graphics
- Introduction to Animation
- Sound for Moving Image
- Web and Video Technologies (double module)
There are no optional units in this year.
Year 2
Core in this year include:
- Project Initiation and Career Management
- Form and Function (mixed media development)
Optional modules in this year currently include:
- CGI Lighting and Look Development
- Creative Coding Practice
- Creative Technologies Study Exchange
- DIgital Identities in the Creative Industries
- Digital Photography
- Digital Sound
- Engaged Citizenship through Interdisciplinary Practice
- Interaction Design
- Foreign Language
- Mobile Application Development
- Production: Camera and Editing
- Production: Short Film Making
- Professional Experience
- Rich Media Website Design and Delivery
- Sound Design and Music for Games
- Student Enterprise
- Virtual Reality Development
Placement year (optional)
On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry. We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Vocational Project Portfolio
- Final Year Project
Optional modules in this year currently include:
- Advanced Visual Effects and Environments
- Applications of Virtual Reality
- Artificial Intelligence
- Communication Design
- Digital Photography and Online Applications
- Documentary Film Making
- Future Technologies
- Games Research
- Implementing Game Audio
- Motion Capture Applications
We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies.
Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.
Course Details – Assessment Method
You’ll be assessed through:
- practical projects
- working journals
- academic and evaluative essays
- performances
- oral presentations
- examinations
- case studies
You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark.
You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future.
The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows:
- Year 1 students: 17% by written exams, 17% by practical exams and 66% by coursework
- Year 2 students: 24% by practical exams and 76% by coursework
- Year 3 students: 7% by written exams, 7% by practical exams and 76% by coursework
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
P3P1
Institution code:
P80
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry.
If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
We also accept other combinations equivalent to 104-112 Tariff points to include a minimum of 2 A levels.
Pass (C or above in the core) - Merit
104-112 points.
106-112 Tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma.
104-112 tariff points.
25 points from the IB Diploma, to include 3 Higher Level subjects
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
Cambridge Pre-U score of 44-46.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
PTE Academic
54.0
An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)
79.0
79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Cambridge English Advanced
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015.
An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English Proficiency
Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015.
An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Trinity ISE
Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
0%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
0%
Go onto work and study:
0%
Fees and funding
EU
9250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
International
17000.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship
Placement Year and Year abroad:
UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 |
EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)|
International (Non-EU) – £1,800.
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees
Provider information
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP
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