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    MA 1 year full-time

Masters Degree Description

This course is aimed at media graduates with an ambition to create and market their own product or services.

This course is ideal for you if you wish to start your own media enterprise.

The course comprises five modules: two media business modules, two creative practice modules and a final project that is expected to achieve a professional standard and be ready for commissioning or financial backing. The course provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary creative media that will support and motivate students to realise their professional ambitions.
 
Why choose this course?
MA Creative Media Start Up is very much focused on providing ambitious and enterprise-oriented students with the knowledge and skills to operate as independent production professionals for a range of clients, across a wide range of media outputs and with the agility to adapt to a rapidly evolving media landscape.
 
The course is designed to produce graduates with advanced skills aligned to a high degree of knowledge of contemporary media markets and business practices that will help them realise their ambition of launching a product, service or their own independent business.
 
The vast majority of employers across media production have moved away from permanent employment contracts towards a culture of short-term, project-specific contracts that favours freelancers, self-employed contractors and independent producers.
 
The course modules are designed to progress you from theory through to implementation and provide a substantial bridge between ambition and the actual conditions encountered in the market and in contemporary practices, such as IP development, commissioning and delivery.
 
The final project expresses this new knowledge by creating a product, service or business plan that is ready to take to market. Our graduates are expected to leave with a project portfolio that is ready for commissioning or financing.
 
On completing the course you will have acquired a comprehensive and critical understanding of media production work within competitive markets, plus the ability to critically analyse and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses as independent practitioners.

Entry Requirements

You will need:

  • a 2:1 pass at undergraduate level from an appropriate course.

A 2:2 plus a relevant industry portfolio could be considered.

You are welcome to apply even if you don’t have any formal qualifications. Your application and portfolio will be considered on its individual merits taking into account your professional, work and life experiences and also your ability to engage with and benefit from the course. You will be required to attend an interview.

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Fees

http://www.uwl.ac.uk/international/fees-and-scholarships/postgraduate-fees

Student Destinations

Whilst most graduates are expected to pursue their ambitions as independent production professionals the knowledge and skills gained are highly transferrable and will appeal to a range of potential employers/contractors in creative media production.

The course caters for students with ambitions to create their own product, services or media enterprise, equipping students with the relevant skills is expected to generate a raft of new opportunities.

Module Details

You will study two modules per semester followed by a final project in semester three.

 
Modules
  • Professional Business
  • Creative 1: Working Ideas
  • Professional Business 2: Implementing Plans
  • Creative 2: USP, Commissioning and Delivery, plus preliminary project work
  • Final Project

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