This specialist media programme enables students to understand and appreciate the media as means of communication and creative expression. It provides opportunities to develop media production skills, and become familiar with critical and theoretical perspectives.
Students can choose one of the Programme’s Pathways: Film, Radio, Television, Broadcasting or Animation. Throughout the programme students have opportunities to develop practical and theoretical work.
Departmental equipment includes digital video and sound production facilities, 16mm film equipment, Avid and Pro Tools digital editing systems and a Rostrum room. The Department has a large well equipped studio for television, film and video productions, and postproduction facilities include a dubbing theatre, telecine equipment, video and sound editing systems, and four sound studios. All these are located in at the Canterbury Campus.
The Department has links with local and national radio, film and television companies. Sky Television offers a scholarship of £2,000 to the most promising final year film or video maker. BBC Radio Kent has a studio in the Department’s main building. Many graduates enter the media industries as trainees and complete their technical training ‘in-house’.
Content and Structure
LEVEL 1
For both Single Honours and Combined Honours students there are compulsory practical and theoretical foundation modules. The theory module includes the analysis of film, radio and television, and a theoretical context for practical work through case studies.
The practical modules introduce basic production skills and techniques.
Level 1 modules include:
Introduction to Film, Radio and Television Theory
Introduction to Film Production
Introduction to TV Production
Introduction to Radio Production
Animating the Imagination
Interpreting Media
LEVEL 2
Modules vary according to whether the programme is studied as Single Honours, Combined Honours or what Pathway a student is following. All students take Critical Approaches to Film, Radio and Television and all Single Honours students take a double module in practical production.
Optional modules include:
Creative Practice: Television and Radio
Screenwriting: Practice
Screenwriting: Theory
Documenting the Real: Practice
Documenting the Real: Theory
Animation: Practice
Animation: Theory
Animation Pre-Production Design
Acting for Film, Radio and Television
Editing: Theory of Practice
American Independent Cinema
British Television and Politics
European Cinema
Sound Studies
Watching the Detectives
LEVEL 3
Modules vary according to what pathway a student is taking and whether Film, Radio and Television is studied as Single Honours or Combined component of the degree programme.
Level 3 modules include:
Film Sound
Utopianism in Popular Cinema
The Cinematic City
Space and Place in the Cinematic City
Independent and Art Film and Video
Contemporary Broadcasting Practice and Policy
Postwar Visual Culture
British Television Drama
Individual Study (Theory)
Mixed-media Dissertation
Applications for FRTV are made through UCAS, see the UCAS codes page on CCC website. The entry requirements for Single Honours FRTV is BCC at A2 Level or equivalent. Joint/Combined Honours FRTV applicants will need CCC at A2 Level or equivalent. No specific subjects are required and students from a wide range of backgrounds are accepted. A qualification in Media and Cultural Studies or Film Studies or English might be an advantage, as would a Foundation Course which involved practical or critical work in sound or vision production, but these are not essential.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in the media and a potential for practical work in the personal statement section of the UCAS form
Refer to www.canterbury.ac.uk For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.