Course Overview
You’ll explore an imaginative mix of physical, on-screen, and interactive multi-media-based outcomes including interactive design campaigns, title sequences, animations, music videos, and TV idents. We will equip you with the knowledge, tools, and experiences to become a skilled and imaginative creative practitioner in the world of design or multi-media production. You’ll produce outcomes for areas including graphic design, illustration, animation, interactive media, and moving images. Our links with industry and creative organizations mean you’ll have opportunities to work on live briefs and undertake work placements. Our creative staff team, with experience across media, graphic design, animation, and games, will support you to develop skills in visual communication, integrating analog and digital processes, using a range of software to create work that is original, relevant, and exciting.
Key Facts
UCAS code W211
Full-time 3 years
Entry requirements
Foundation diploma
A foundation diploma is not a requirement for entry – it is just one of a range of qualifications (for example, A-level, BTEC, or Access diploma) that is accepted for admission to the course.
A-levels or BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level BBB–BCC (120–104 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DDM–MMM. You will be considered if your predicted grades fall within this range, but any offer will be made based on an assessment of the portfolio/interview.
International Baccalaureate
30 points, with three subjects at a Higher Level.
Access to HE Diploma
Pass with 60 credits overall. At least 45 credits at level 3, with 24 credits at merit or above.
Foundation degree/HND
May enable you to start the course in year 2. Direct entry to year 3: foundation degree or DipHE in a related subject, or practical experience.
Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits, or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3.
English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element.
Prepare for your career
In your career, you need a combination of knowledge, skills, personal qualities, and relevant experiences – and you’ll get all of this from your degree.
- This degree teaches you the creative skills needed to enter this exciting industry – from how to work to client briefs to collaborating with other disciplines, to self-promotion and use of social media.
- You will graduate with the confidence of being able to negotiate many specialisms across the full media spectrum and will leave with a wide range of technical, intellectual, and graphical design skills.
- We allow you to develop an individual, tailored approach to your studies, choosing your own creative path through the degree with support from our dedicated course team.
You’ll have opportunities to gain work experience. Our media students have carried out placements in organizations including:
- Ricochet
- Creative Assembly
- BBC Good Food and Olive Magazine
- Absolute Radio
- Brighton and Hove Green Party
- Lowkey Films
- Drop4Drop
- Integrity Music Europe
- YDN Radio
- Life Water
- Electric Square
- ITV Potato
- Renewable World
- Deluxe
- ILOVEDUST
- Bauer Media
- Brighton Dome
- Brighton Fringe.
Course Content
- Design Principles and Practice
- Sequence and Narrative
- Motion Principles and Practice
- Historical and Critical Studies
- Virtual Studio
- Visual Language and Personal Voice
- Expanding Motion Principles and Practice
- Historical and Critical Studies 2
- Option module programme
- Context and Consolidation
- Virtual Studio – Design for Digital Media
- Professional Practice
- Extended Research Project
