Course overview
Our Film Studies and Music Production course will develop the technical knowledge and creative expertise you'll need for a career in the music or film industry. It will also prepare you for a wide variety of live and studio environments. Gain hands-on industry experience through work placement opportunities and benefit from research-informed teaching and fully-equipped facilities.
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Course content
Film Studies and Music Production at Keele aims to give you a portfolio of skills so you can achieve your career ambitions in the music industry or in creative industries like TV, radio, film and games. Taught by experienced staff with a range of specialisms, you will develop knowledge in sound recording, film aesthetics, audio design, digital sampling and programming. You will also have the opportunities to explore mixing, mastering, producing sound, scriptwriting, digital filmmaking and documentary.
Strengthening Your Employability
We are committed to ensuring you graduate from Keele with a highly desired diverse skill-set to support your employability.
Our programme offers the opportunity to take either a placement module or work placement year. This will enable you to engage directly with industry to gain invaluable practical skills and first-hand experience of the day-to-day operations of a relevant working environment.
Facilities
You will study in our beautiful 19th-century Clockhouse and have access to comprehensive studio facilities. Students studying practical filmmaking options can also make use of digital video equipment and editing suites, available from our fully-equipped Media Building. In the Clockhouse six separate areas house equipment for sound recording, music production, computer music, audio-visual creative work, sound design, and music software development. The Clockhouse includes a lab, recording studio, three small group or individual user studios with workstations for audio/video editing and sound design, and drummers' room. Our studios are equipped with Macintosh-based workstations, Genelec speakers, and kept abreast with the development of modern technological tools. You will have access to the building and all studios 24 hours a day, all year around (including national holidays).
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Learn a Language and Study Abroad Opportunities
You may opt to learn a language - whether you are a complete beginner, or already have a foundation of knowledge we offer a flexible and guided route to enhancing your skills. We currently offer British Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Upon successful completion of a series of elective language modules, you will have the opportunity to gain an enhanced degree title. You may also look to enhance your student experience by engaging with the student-led societies. You'll also have the chance to study abroad at one of our partner institutions enabling you to broaden your knowledge whilst experiencing a new culture. Music students may look to study in Australia, Canada or Asia to name a few possible destinations. Our Global Opportunities team will support you through the process, ensuring you are able to get the most out of your international experience. We are partnered with many institutions across the world enabling you to further develop your appreciation and awareness of other cultures and societies.
Related Courses
- Music Production and Sound Design
- Business and Music Production
- Computer Science and Music Production
- Media and Music Production
- Music Production and Psychology
Course structure
The module details given below are indicative, they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.
- Audio Fundamentals and Recording Techniques
- Introduction to Music Production
- Music Programming and Automation
- Sound and Society
- Sound for Moving Image
- Introduction to Television Studies
- Film Animation: History and Theory
- Reading Film and Media
- Film and Culture
- Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Culture
- Digital Video
- Creative Synergies: Designing Collaborative Projects
- Live Sound and Studio Skills
- Sound Design
- Digital Sampling
- Work Placement for Humanities
- Adaptation
- Science Fiction Cinema: Utopias and Dystopias
- Global Popular Cinemas
- Documentary Theory and Practice
- Work Placement for Humanities Students
- Dissertation - Research Project ISP
- Say it Loud! Music, Sound and Social Change
- Advanced Mixing and Mastering
- Music Production and Sound Design Portfolio ISP
- Commercial Sound Applications
- Work Placement for Humanities (Final Year)
- Words and Pictures: the Contemporary American Graphic Novel
- Approaches to Screenwriting
- Visual Pleasures: From Carnival to Disney
- Work Experience in Media, Communications and Culture
- Film Noir: The Dark Side of America
- Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory
Additional opportunities
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