Digital Content Creation
at City of Stoke-On-Trent Sixth Form College

Media Production Skills 1

This module will teach you how to shoot and edit video and then share your work over popular social media sites.

Module code: MEDP40125

Multimedia Writing And Presenting

This module is designed to introduce all Digital Content Creation students to the basics of reporting/writing in the current digital industry. Students will learn how to evaluate the story/content ideas, and how to employ both traditional and modern skills and techniques to gather information necessary to disseminate to a wider audience.

Module code: JOUR41033

Aesthetics And Visual Communication

This module offers you the exciting opportunity to explore and investigate the pictorial elements available to photographers and visual artists, and how we communicate with the world around us. It encourages you to engage with practices that place the emphasis on creating meaning through visual communication.

Module code: JOUR41031

Content Marketing

An introduction to the fast-paced world of content marketing, drawing upon case studies leading global brands and giving you the chance to work on drafting content for a live industry brief.

Module code: JOUR41032

Audio, Music And Podcasting

Podcasting has fast become the on-demand radio of the future. This module will help you develop the technical, creative and production skills needed to produce high-quality podcasts. It brings together the three identifiable skill sets of narrative based story-telling, audio production and creative industry skills to support your creative journey.

Module code: FTVR40600

Content Publishing

This module is designed to give students a fundamental understanding of the theoretical and practical techniques used in publishing digital content online.

Module code: JOUR41034

Legal, Regulations And Ethics

This module is designed for students to enable them to develop an understanding of how the law, broadcasting regulations, codes of conduct, and ethical issues, all have an impact on the decisions journalists make on a day to day basis.

Module code: JOUR55009

Digital Storytelling

This module will enable you to explore and develop a knowledge of digital storytelling within digital content creation. The main function of the digital storyteller is to create visual narratives, represent, interpret, and heighten the meaning with the minimal use of words.

Module code: JOUR55008

Content Writing

This module provides knowledge, understanding and experience of writing for cross-media industries, including newspapers, TV, magazines, radio and websites for a range of different consumers, readers and audiences.

Module code: JOUR55007

Media Production Skills 2

Students will unlock the secrets of the TV studio and make a short TV show in a genre of their choice.

Module code: MEDP50201

Non-Fiction Film Production

You will analyse a range of non-fiction productions examining the use of camera and form, editing processes and styles, legal and ethical issues, and distribution pathways, to produce a non-fiction production.

Module code: FILM50348

Blogging And Social Media

This module introduces students to the techniques employed by successful bloggers/vloggers working across web and mobile media outlets in producing content.

Module code: JOUR55006

User Generated Content

A ground-breaking module that envelops you in a world of user generated content in a variety of forms. Areas include the world of sports podcasts, gaming communities, news and citizen witness, activism and social change, fan art, fashion and travel.

Module code: JOUR60664

Live Streaming

This project provides the opportunity for you to draw together all the practical experience and critical understanding you have acquired of radio and audio production. You will negotiate with your supervisor at the start of the module the nature of the project and how you intend to complete your broadcast to a professional standard.

Module code: FTVR60652

Interactive Content For Mobile And Web

This module explores the process of creating and converting media (graphics, video, audio) suitable for web and mobile. You will look at how interactive content should be provided on different devices for mobile and web delivery. You will also study and implement the latest web technologies to create a highly interactive web application to attract the target audience and provide an engaging experience.

Module code: COMP60030

Final Project

You will identify a project suitable to your specialism and career aspiration. The final project module aims to provide an opportunity for you to undertake and manage a significant project on an individual basis.

Module code: JOUR60663

3D Content Creation

This module is designed to give students a fundamental understanding of the theoretical and practical techniques used in 3D modelling for content creation.

Module code: GAME40434

Cdt Industrial Placement

Module code: PLAC00001

Team Project (Media)

This module provides you with a general introduction to the Foundation Year and to the importance of teamwork. Through a short, intensive group project you will work in multi-disciplinary teams and will be encouraged to develop communication skills through tutor and student-led activities. Studio work will be supported by introductory lectures, seminars and demonstrations, each followed by hands-on practical activities. To extend the learning that takes place in class your will be expected to engage in independent study outside of timetabled sessions.

Module code: MEDP30000

Ideas Generation And Problem Solving For Media

Developing new and innovative ideas is essential for any successful media practitioner. This module will therefore use variety of creative methods to help develop your ideas generation, problem solving and critical thinking. Through individual and group exercises, you will develop experimental and lateral media techniques and challenged preconceived ideas and ways of working. The module is practice-focused, encouraging you to apply your ideas by using a range of pre-production, production and post-production equipment, tools and software. As a result, you will apply your newly acquired knowledge to complete a short brief.

Module code: MEDP30003

Production Skills For Media

This module introduces you to a wide range of approaches used across the media industry and the production skills that are essential to success in the area. It explores a breadth of production skills relevant to different media areas alongside how and why they are used, including fundamentals of video camera technology, editing and post-production, and conventions and narrative. Through workshops you will apply aesthetic and technical techniques to undertake various exercises. You will produce a portfolio demonstrating the methods covered and present a support file containing technical instructions supported by your own notes, research and development.

Module code: MEDP30001

Theory And Practice In Media

This module introduces you to different creative practitioners work and their reasons for making various decisions and using different techniques. The module explores the work of these practitioners in different contexts. You will attend a series of lectures exploring narratives, genre and story telling and will carry out further independent research into areas of interest. By undertaking the module, you will gain a better understanding of how and why you should use various techniques in your own work.

Module code: MEDP30002

Major Project (Media)

This module encourages you to take personal responsibility for a major brief, building on the experience of the whole learning programme. This will enable you to apply and consolidate the knowledge, skills and experience you have gained, in the production of a significant body of work to develop themes, storytelling and/or narrative. Alongside personal tutorials, you will be encouraged to work independently through negotiation with your tutor to research and generate your ideas before applying ways of working to your own media practice. As a result, this module provides an opportunity for significant personal creative development.

Module code: MEDP30004