Digital Media Production
MSc
Key facts
Start dates
September 2024 / September 2025
Location
Course length
Full time: 12 months
Part time: 24 months
Department
Overview
Our MSc Digital Media Production provides you with the skills and professional level expertise to create contemporary media products.
Our teaching staff are industry professionals with a wide range of expertise and connections to the creative industries.
The course covers:
- video and audio production
- motion capture
- computer graphics
- animation.
You'll learn to operate digital equipment and manipulate data to produce finished products for the creative industries. And work with interactive products such as game engines, mobile applications or websites. As well as the longer established media of television, video and audio.
You can work on the award-winning Brookes TV where you'll make and produce broadcasts and train as a broadcast journalist. There are also opportunities to work on live projects for external clients producing promotional materials, a fast expanding area of employment.
This course is open to students from any academic background.
How to apply
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
Applicants should normally hold a good honours degree (2.2 or above), or its equivalent, in any discipline other than those very closely related to media technology. If you have relevant professional qualifications or work experience you can also be considered.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English language requirements
If your first language is not English you will require minimum IELTS score of 6.5 overall with 6.0 in each component.
Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Pathways courses for international and EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for your postgraduate course and also familiarise you with university life in the UK.
Take a Pre-Master's course to develop your subject knowledge, study skills and academic language level in preparation for your master's course.
If you need to improve your English language, we offer pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements of your chosen master’s course.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Application process
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year, your fees will increase each year.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Optional costs
| Additional costs | Amount (£) |
|---|---|
It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. |
From £30 |
| You may choose to purchase books to support your studies. Many books on our reading lists are available via the Library, or can be purchased secondhand. | £20-60 per book |
Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) |
£94-265 per week |
Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) |
£122-180 per week |
Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. |
Typically £0-200 |
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. BrookesBus travel is subsidised for full-time undergraduate students that are on a course with a fee of £9,250 or more, or living in an Oxford Brookes hall of residence. There is an administration fee for the production of a BrookesKey. |
From £10 |
Funding your studies
Financial support and scholarships
Featured funding opportunities available for this course.
All financial support and scholarships
Learning and assessment
To qualify for the master’s you must pass seven taught modules, including the Research and Study Methods module. And the dissertation.
The course benefits from the rigorous validation and review processes at the University. The external examiners are very positive about the course.
Examples of previous student work include:
Brand new facilities
The MSc Digital Media Production course is having all its teaching move to brand new, custom designed buildings at our main Headington site. These buildings are expected to open in September 2024, but as with any large-scale building project those timescales could change. You'll benefit from state-of-the-art facilities and equipment including a VR cave, a digital suite and a digital theatre, as well as social learning spaces, teaching rooms and cafe space.
Study modules
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Learning and teaching
We use a range of teaching and learning methods, including:
- lectures
- directed reading
- workshops
- presentations
- seminars
- practical work
- project work.
There will be a weekly three-hour teaching block over a 12 week period. You will need to set aside 200 hours of study. There will be 36 hours of staff contact.
Your learning will draw on the diverse professional backgrounds, experience and knowledge of academics and visiting lecturers from industry.
Assessment
Assessment methods used on this course
Each course module is assessed individually, generally on the quality of written or design work, and to some extent on verbal presentations.
Assessment methods may include:
- essays
- seminar papers
- class tests
- project work
- design and oral presentations
- workshops
- simulations
- practical exercises.
Research
We focus on user-inspired original research with real-world applications. Our research centres provide a focus for research and a bank of expertise across the creative industries. They allow us to foster relationships with outside agencies and other academic institutions. And facilitate debate and promote interdisciplinary research within the University.
Research in this area is primarily practice-led. Working alongside staff, you'll get the opportunity to engage professionally with a range of organisations and businesses on:
- feature films
- computer games
- augmented reality projects
- music videos
- broadcast TV.
Project work and current areas of interest include:
- performance motion capture for feature films and the computer games industry
- post production, visual effects and colour grading for broadcast television and feature films
- character modelling for animation and computer gaming
- animatronics and physical special effects
- virtual and augmented reality and its synergies with the visual arts.
After you graduate
Career prospects
Students graduate from the course with a broad skill set that equips them to move into a career in film and television post production, the computer games industry or live television production. Our graduates may work as freelance movie producers, graphic or games designers, but also find successful careers in international companies, such as:
- Microsoft
- Discovery Channel
- the BBC.
Our Staff
Ms Gillian Kelly
Gillian has been a television news reporter and producer for 19 years, and is currently freelance. she now works a variety of roles, mainly for the national news. She teaches TV news, journalism, Avid, camera work and filming, live studio operation, digital media, professional practice and script writing.
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On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.