Digital Media Production
Design and create innovative, engaging digital multimedia content, alongside developing your digital design and visual communication skills.
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There’s growing demand for digital content creators working across social media and other platforms with a specialist understanding of user experience, design, and emerging technologies like VR.
Cambridge is the perfect place to gain these sought-after skills; It’s a tech hub known as ‘Silicon Fen’, with digital agencies and companies based here including Sookio, Onespacemedia, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The city is predicted to be in the top ten for Creative Industries jobs growth by 2030 (NESTA).
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Senior Lecturer Tina Burton explains what it's like to study Digital Media Production at ARU.
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Study at an award-winning university
We were named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023. We've also been awarded a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework – a reflection of the outstanding education we offer our students.
Careers
It is hard to choose a highlight of my time on the course; however, I would probably narrow it down to being offered a work placement with One Brand Magic.
This course will prepare you for roles including digital media design, web design, social media analysis, content writing, videography, motion graphic art, and interactive design.
You'll also be prepared for near-future careers like digital culture commentator or designer.
You’ll follow briefs and challenges that come straight from industry, and can also take an optional placement year.
Our employability advisers run workshops, seminars, networking events, portfolio reviews and design challenges, and will help you find placements and work experience.
Teaching and modules
Dive into the digital playground! Create, edit, and unleash your imagination through immersive storytelling, motion-graphics, photography, film and interactive media.
In Year 1, you’ll set up a blog to map your learning journey, giving you a useful resource and toolkit both during the course and beyond.
We’ll also introduce you to the fundamentals of digital media, and help you develop project management skills.
In Year 2 you’ll work with practitioners at the forefront of emerging technologies to create new forms of storytelling.
In your final year you’ll prepare for life beyond university, solving challenging practice briefs or taking an optional work placement, before designing your own final project.
Student work
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Sade’s major project “Who Am I?” shows the story of music in her early life and the people that introduced her to it.
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View work by graduating students from our BA (Hons) Digital Media Production degree.
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A film by Dina Mateus and Rasny Magalhaes, BA (Hons) Digital Media Production students.
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Digital Media student Abbie Turner explains how studying at ARU allowed her to combine her passions of drawing, illustration and all things digital, and how she used them to make industry connections on her course.
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Digital Media student Abbie Turner worked on an interactive illustration project for Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
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Liam uses his digital skills to stop knives taking lives.
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A video by BA (Hons) Digital Media graduating student Jayden Nelson for his Major Project at Cambridge School of Art.
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Lourenco's Major Project film focused on SEEDS, a non-profit environmental organisation based in Iceland.
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Created by Lauren Rouse during Year 2 of her degree course.
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Modules are subject to change and availability, and may vary by location. If you have the choice of optional modules, these are indicated with a *.
- Fundamentals of Digital Media
- Thinking Digital: A Practical History of Digital Media
- Digital Content Creation
- Introduction to User Experience Design
- Into ARU
- Critical Issues and Debates
- Immersive Storytelling
- Photography Post-Production Workflow
- Motion Graphics
- Ruskin Module (15 credits)
- Digital Media Specialised Practice
- Digital Media Major Project
- Research Project *
- Working in the Creative Industries *
To prepare you for university study, you can take a foundation year at the start of this course. Find out more about foundation years.
- Foundation in Art and Design
You can choose to take an optional placement year as part of this course. Placements typically happen in Year 3, and your course will take four years overall. Find out more about placement years.
- Work Placement - Cambridge School of Art
Read profiles of teaching and research staff on this course.
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Emily GoddenSenior Lecturer
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Tina BurtonSenior Lecturer
Facilities
As a Digital Media Production student at ARU, you’ll have access to facilities including:
- dedicated Mac and PC suites with the latest software including Adobe Creative Suite
- film studios, VR and 360 cameras, sound studios and video editing suites
- photography facilities including darkrooms, photographic studios, and film processing and digital printing suites
- professional equipment loans
- Ruskin Gallery, a professional digital art gallery
- 3D workshops for physical media including wood, plastic, metal, and clay.
Entry requirements
Fees and funding
Apply for Digital Media Production
UK students
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