Television Production BA (Hons)

Course overview

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What will I study?

• The BA (Hons) Television Production degree combines a hands-on professional approach with academic, critical and theoretical study of the media industry
• Students develop technical and production skills and disciplines as well as a critical grasp of the medium, enabling them to hit the ground running when they go out into the industry
• The course includes making programmes in our state-of-the-art HD TV studio and on location across the whole spectrum of TV genres and style

• View the detailed course content

Who should do this course?

• Students who demonstrate both intellectual and creative abilities and show an understanding of the television and film industry
• Students who have an appreciation of broadcast media and film possess a strong awareness of the visual arts
• If you can demonstrate good written and oral communication skills and work well with others you would excel on this course
• View the selection criteria for Television Production

What can I do next?

• Our graduates have established an excellent reputation within the UK and this programme achieves consistently high graduate employment rates
• We deliver vocational and innovative programmes designed to meet both employer and students needs
• Graduates from TV Production have gone on to work on Casualty, GMTV, Top Gear and This Morning
• View the career opportunities for our BA (Hons) Television Production graduates
• Many of our graduates go on to study a Postgraduate course at BU.

Tell me more

The students have full access to broadcast-quality equipment including a 3-camera HD studio, Sony Z7 and Panasonic cameras and SQN Sound Mixers. Editing is done in Final Cut Pro or AVID suites.

This course runs in parallel with the BA (Hons) Interactive Media Production and BA (Hons) Scriptwriting for Film and Television courses enabling the TV students to engage with the rapidly changing face of today’s digital television industry as it becomes increasingly integrated with the internet. Collaboration with their fellow students forms part of the course as well as being very much encouraged outside it.

The Television Production course is a Skillset Media Academy Course and forms part of Bournemouth University’s Skillset Media Academy. This is a partnership between Bournemouth University's Media School and the Arts University College Bournemouth (AUCB), the Academy is the largest centre of professional higher education for the film and media industries in the UK, and offers some of the world's finest education and training in the disciplines of practical creative media.

Every year since 2003 BA (Hons) Television Production students have won awards at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Regional Awards. This year saw Jon Scorer win 'Best Undergraduate Factual' short film. The film was one of five entries from BU to make this year’s RTS short-list and is automatically entered for a national award to be announced in May. You can watch Jon's short film here.

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• BU graduate wins Royal Television Society Student Awards- find out more about Hamish Anderson's victory

• BA (Hons) Television Production graduate produces BBC hit TV series 'Whites' - read more about Michelle Farr's success on our news pages