End of year 2015

Looking back this has been a great year for the Media Production course and students. We’ve had inspirational  lectures and workshops from our partners at ITV, LA Productions, Mocha, Ironbird, Hatch to name a few and students have worked on placements and projects with ITV Shiver, BBC, Lime Pictures, Lime Digital, Mocha and more. The […]

A day with Ironbird

Last week 12 media production students and I went on a fun day out with Rob and Alec of Ironbird:  iron-bird.co.uk , Liverpool–based aerial cinematography company that’s having a meteoric success since their start up 2 years ago.  The morning began with screened examples of their work ranging from air shots for a documentary in Kenya […]

Royal Television Society Awards nominations

We are very proud to announce that two films from last year’s graduates have just been nominated for RTS Student awards. Both short documentaries were made for the module Production Project, which leads students to pitch, develop and produce a media product. The nominated projects are One Eye Open, by Josie Webster and Ian Gardner […]

ITV at the Screen School

Last week students at the Screen school welcomed ITV staff who came to the Redmonds building to deliver workshops as the first event in a new partnership. John Whiston (Creative Director, Serial Drama and Director, ITV in the North) said ITV were going to run workshops ‘ in the best institutions in the North and […]

Summertime – placements and festivals

The summer has been a busy period for Media Production students. Festivals, work placements and the maybe the occasional holiday. Back in June a group of students from the second and third year attended Sheffield Doc Fest. A great opportunity to meet documentary makers, network, and to see a broad array of documentaries across diverse […]