BA (Hons) Media Production
- Entry year:
- 2026/27
- Start date:
- September
- Study mode:
- Full-time
- Campus:
- Mount Pleasant
- UCAS Code:
- P300
Available in Clearing for 2026 entry
Visit our Clearing hub: You can call one of our helpful and friendly Clearing advisors on 0808 5 564 565 or complete our online application form.
Why study this course with LJMU?
- To turn your creativity and passions into a Content Creator career
- 95% of students on this course said teaching staff were good at explaining things (National Student Survey 2025)
- Designed with students in collaboration with practitioners and industry
- As well as the traditional media formats, explore the foundations and boundaries of Mixed Realities Production enabling you to innovate and inspire using hands-on, active learning
- Build the toolkit and adaptable attitude to gain employment in the highly competitive and rewarding creative industries
- Recognised as an Education Partner by Production Futures
- WATCH: The 2023 student showreel
About your course
This BA (Hons) Media Production degree at Liverpool John Moores University is next generation focused.
The course is a creative industries training ground with an emphasis on both the traditional craft skills and studio models as well as the emerging crafts of mixed realities.
We are a hands-on, active learning programme. We show, then you do.
You will use various hardware and software solutions in response to the creative, theoretical, and critical challenges set. You will learn the traditional preproduction, production and postproduction skills of Moving Image and Audio Fiction and Non-fiction shorts. You will also explore Audio podcasting and live environments. You have the option of a TV Studio project in your second year, culminating in a live broadcast of a show you develop from scratch with your team. The newest strand of the design champions Digital Workflows and explores areas such as Immersive/Interactive storytelling, 360, VR and AR.
Virtual Production is moving fast, and we invite you to join us in exploring the foundations and new craft skills required to be successful in this field. In your final year, the Digital Disruption module invites you to take all the hardware and software craft skills you have developed and to break the rules - a digital sandbox to innovate and inspire.
This is a programme carefully designed by our students in collaboration with the delivery team and industry professionals. There is a new storytelling, marketing, development, and distribution strand that will help you understand how to capitalise on your creativity and turn passions in to a living.
Students were quite passionate in the redesign asking, How do we sell ourselves?. This lead to the inclusion of the Digital Marketing, development and Distribution modules on the programme to strengthen the graduate toolkit.
Our industry strand ensures you graduate with the key tools to gain employment along with your degree. That being a CV, showreel and online presence.
This is an exciting, rewarding industry but it is hard work and requires you to show up and put the energy in. If you do this, it will be a transformative experience culminating in your final major project. A calling card to industry that we can all to be proud of. We look forward to helping you set out on your lifelong journey in the Creative Industries.
Course modules
What you will study on this degree
This course is currently undergoing its scheduled programme review, which may impact the advertised modules. Programme review is a standard part of the University’s approach to quality assurance and enhancement, enabling us to ensure that our courses remain up to date and maintain their high standard and relevancy.
Once the review is completed, this course website page will be updated to reflect any approved changes to the advertised course. These approved changes will also be communicated to those who apply for the course to ensure they wish to proceed with their application.
Further guidance on modules
Modules are designated core or optional in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU’s Academic Framework Regulations. Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules provide you with an element of choice. Their availability may vary and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.
Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.
Core modules
Audio
20 credits
20 credits
This module will help you to demonstrate the acquired skills in interviewing, recording, editing and sound design. During the module, you will produce a well-crafted audio artefact with an engaging story. You will be able to do so by reflecting upon audio and its importance in creative industries, informed by knowledge and history of the radio/podcast industry. Completion of the module will instil an awareness of professionalism and communication skills.
Core modules
Postproduction
20 credits
20 credits
Through a series of lectures and practical workshops you will learn the various ways in which post-production techniques can be used to enhance narrative and add depth to moving image material. You will follow typical industry workflows in the development of personal projects; experimenting with concepts and techniques whilst ensuring that creative decisions are justified and fit the requirements of the brief.
Fiction
20 credits
20 credits
In this module students work in teams to produce a short film drama following a series of lectures, master classes, workshops and tutorials. Pre-production, casting, rehearsals, research, filming and editing will be undertaken as independent study. You will choose either the Moving Image or Audio output in the first session, then be grouped accordingly.
Optional modules
Study Year Abroad - Media Production
120 credits
120 credits
The aim is to provide students with an additional year of study at an approved overseas partner that will complement their programme at LJMU. This is an additional year of full-time study at an approved higher education institution. The modules to be studied must be agreed in advance, and must be appropriate for the student's programme of study. Assuming successful completion of this year, mark-bearing credit will be awarded by the Faculty Recognition Group. The grade conversion scale to be used will be made available in advance of the year abroad.
Study Semester Abroad - Media Production
60 credits
60 credits
The aim is to provide students with a semester of study at an approved overseas partner that will replace one semester of their LJMU programme at level 5.This is a semester of full-time study at an approved higher education institution which will replace one semester of level 5 study at LJMU. The modules to be studied must be agreed in advance, and must be an appropriate substitute for the modules being replaced. Assuming successful completion of this semester, mark-bearing credit will be awarded by the Faculty Recognition Group. The grade conversion scale to be used will be made available in advance of the semester abroad.
Core modules
Digital Disruption
20 credits
20 credits
Weekly lectures will expose you to new industry trends and innovations through guest speakers and new technology demonstrations. This will encourage exploration and disruption in terms of using familiar process in new ways and impacting society. In the workshops, you will identify areas to focus your disruptive response to the brief with peer input and testing. You will present project progress weekly while workshops also offer technical support.
Specialisms
20 credits
20 credits
In week one of the module, you will identify areas for development in your chosen skillset and plan for key milestones. Weekly workshops will support hardware or software progression in your chosen specialism. Then, every two weeks, you will present progress and confirm further development stages with your tutor in seminars. If you fall behind or move ahead of milestones, the learning plan will be negotiated accordingly with tutor approval.
Professional accreditation
The Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries is a BAFTA albert Education Partner and proud to be working with albert to arm students with the sustainability knowledge they’ll need when joining the screen industries. BAFTA albert is the leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability.
We’re proud to be recognised as an Education Partner by Production Futures. As an industry, we talk a lot about talent shortages, but visibility plays a huge role in shaping the future workforce. Through our partnership with Production Futures, we’re helping create clearer pathways into the industry, connecting with students, freelancers, and emerging professionals earlier.
Your Learning Experience
Excellent facilities and learning resources
We adopt an active blended learning approach, meaning you will experience a combination of face-to-face and online learning during your time at LJMU. This enables you to experience a rich and diverse learning experience and engage fully with your studies. Our approach ensures that you can easily access support from your personal tutor, either by meeting them on-campus or via a video call to suit your needs.
Teaching is delivered via a combination of practical and workshop classes, lectures, seminars, online activities and individual tutorials. Private study, individual and group production work as well as academic writing and research is an important aspect of degree-level study and so you will be expected to spend about 40% of your time working independently, when producing media, preparing essays, reports or presentations.
Plus you will be expected to complete independent study and group work and participate in online activities and discussions using our virtual learning environment, Canvas.
Work-related Learning
Work-based learning is a vital element of this degree programme and gives you a taste of what its really like to work in the media industry. You will not only get to practise skills you have learnt on the course, but you will also be able to add the experience to your CV, giving you a head start when it comes to finding your first job in this very competitive industry.
In fact many of our graduates have been offered a full-time position by their placement employer on the strength of successful work experience.
Dedicated personal tutor, plus study skills support
We believe that one-to-one support during your studies is vital, and for this reason you will be assigned a personal tutor from the minute you enrol at LJMU. He or she may teach some of your sessions, but you are also encouraged to arrange meetings with them to discuss course-related issues and ideas in a more informal setting. You will also receive support in finding and securing a work placement.
Assessment varies depending on the modules you choose, but will usually include a combination of exams and coursework.
We acknowledge that all students perform differently depending on how they are assessed, which is why we use a combination of assessment methods. These include: written work (essays, etc), presentations (group/individual), practical assessments (individual and team projects), producing web content, video productions both factual and fiction, studio and location, interactive products and portfolios (including e-portfolios).
Where you will study
The Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries is based in the Redmonds Building, in the heart of the bustling Mount Pleasant Campus and Liverpool's growing Knowledge Quarter. The building is home to high quality lecture theatres and seminar rooms, TV studios, radio suites, green screen, editing rooms and news rooms, social spaces, and a café. It is only a short walk from LJMUs Mount Pleasant Campus Library, which contains all the resources you will require for your studies, and is open seven days a week.
LJMU Media Production students proved invaluable to us. Our oral storytelling website Peoples-Stories.com was in need of streamlining and as a small indie we didn't have time to analyse what the next stage in its evolution should be. Thanks to the LJMU team we got a clear and well thought through appraisal.
Career paths
You will be encouraged to take advantage of the wealth of work experience available via the School’s Production Unit. This unique aspect of the course offers you the opportunity to undertake paid and unpaid work for professional clients, helping you build up a genuine CV of media work experience to present to potential employers.
Graduates from Media Production have an excellent employment record, particularly in professional broadcast media, ranging from television researchers and assistant producers, camera assistants, designers, press officers, technical directors, producers of new media and online content.
The course has a history of success in film and media competitions with graduates winning coveted Royal Television Society Student Awards in Documentary (2013 and 2015), Drama (2016), and in the Comedy and entertainment category for The Trick in Trick or Treat, a comedy drama which three students produced for their final production project.
Some students also go on to set up their own production companies making music videos, corporate and short films as well as web design and new media production. Progression onto postgraduate study is also a route for Media Production graduates.
Student Futures - Careers, Employability and Enterprise Service
A wide range of opportunities and support is available to you, within and beyond your course, to ensure our students experience a transformation in their career trajectory. Every undergraduate curriculum includes Future Focus during Level 4, an e-learning resource and workshop designed to help you to develop your talents, passion and purpose.
Every student has access to Careers Zone 24/7, LJMU's suite of online Apps, resources and jobs board via the LJMU Student Futures website.
Tuition fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students beginning their studies in September 2026 will be £9,790 for the 2026/27 academic year, subject to Parliamentary approval.
In England and Wales, tuition fees for home undergraduate students are set in accordance with the Government’s regulated fee cap. The Government has confirmed that this cap will be £9,790 for 2026/27 and £10,050 for 2027/28, in both cases subject to Parliamentary approval.
The Government has also indicated that from the 2028/29 academic year onwards, the fee cap may be adjusted annually in line with inflation. As a result, tuition fees in future years may increase in line with inflation. We will provide confirmation of any changes as early as possible in advance of each academic year.
The university reserves the right to increase tuition fees in accordance with any changes to the maximum allowable fees set by the UK Parliament.
The fees quoted above cover registration, tuition, supervision, assessment and examinations as well as library membership and student IT support with access to printed, multimedia and digital resources including programme-appropriate software and on campus Wi-Fi.
Financial Support
The University offers a range of scholarships to support students through their studies. You'll find all the information you need on our specialist funding pages, including details of the Student Support Fund and other activities to support with the cost of living.
Additional Costs
In addition to fees, students should also keep in mind the cost of:
- Accommodation
- Travel costs including those for placements, visas and travel for studying abroad and field trips unless paid for by LJMU
- Stationery, IT equipment, professional body membership and graduation gown hire
Applying via Clearing
Minimum UCAS points required:
For the latest entry requirements, complete our Clearing Application Form or call our Clearing hotline on 0808 5 564 565.
You can find out a wealth of useful information and support with the Clearing process on our Clearing webpages.
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