FdA Multimedia
Higher Education at The College is actively promoting Foundation Degrees to Industry. As these are vocational courses it is important for us to work in partnership with interested employers who can offer short-term student placements, sit on our advisory panels, or guest speak at a lecture. This continually serves to update the quality of the courses we can bring to our students and help to produce graduates with skills recognised and needed by industry.
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Skills for the Professional Workplace
The Foundation Degree in Multimedia combines vocational relevance with academic rigour, and prepares students for employment in the Multimedia Industry.
The College is building on its expertise in interactive media with a route which sees interactive media as the dominant specialism. This is underpinned with video production techniques, which will ensure graduates are equipped with the skills required to author strong, interactive projects with moving image multimedia elements.
Students join the course with experience of packages such as Flash, Photoshop and Adobe Freehand and develop their expertise in these areas towards a career as an author of interactive media projects with video production skills.
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Work Placement
This is the students' opportunity to experience a real working environment. Through regular tutorials and careers seminars, students are taught how to approach companies for placement. They are then expected to arrange a 6 week placement with an industry relevant company and gain experience at management / supervisory level. Students are required to produce an assessed body of work from their placement and The College requests feedback from a designated 'mentor' at the company who reports on the student's performance.
Getting Involved
This is a very important element of the course and The College is always pleased to hear from interested companies willing to take students for placement. It is an opportunity for Industry to play an influential role in determining the tuition we give our students so as to install in them the skills they really need for business. Find out how to get involved. ____________________________________________________________________________
Course Units Include:
- Study Skills
- Production 1: Video
- Production 1: Design for the Screen
- Production 1: Interactive Media
- Summer Project in Interactive Media
- Theory 1
- Professional Studies 1
- Personal Development Planning 1
- Production 2: Video
- Production 2: Screen Design
- Production 2: Interactive Media
- Industry Production in Video
- Industry Project in Interactive Media
- Theory 2
- Professional Studies 2
- Personal Development Planning
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