Creative Media Practice (TV & Film) - Level 3 National Extended Diploma

Essentials

Duration: 2 Years Full-time
Start date: 4th September 2023
End date: 6th June 2025
Information event: Y

Course fee: FREE (See eligibility criteria)

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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.

New for September 2021 - Become an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP)

During your time at the college, you will also study towards the industry recognised Adobe Certified Accreditation. Adobe products; including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign, Animate, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro, are essential software applications used daily within the Creative Industry. Upon successful completion of the two-year programme at Northern Regional College, you can graduate with a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice AND become an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP). This is a fantastic opportunity for everyone seeking progression to higher education or employment within this exciting and ever-developing industry.

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.

 

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Special Features

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.

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Course Update

Please note that due to ongoing major campus construction projects courses at Ballymena, Coleraine and Ballymoney may be relocated to alternative suitable locations as required.

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Applicants should have at least 4 GCSE's at Grade C or above or other relevant qualifications. In circumstances where there are more applications for the course than there are places available, the College reserves the right to ask for higher grades.

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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.

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