Media Production & Digital Arts - TU982
Media Production & Digital Arts at TU Dublin is a hands-on creative media degree for students who want to think, design and create across contemporary media, digital arts and cultural production.
As an MPDA student at TU Dublin, formerly Creative Digital Media, you’ll be thinking, designing and creating from your first days in the door. The course attracts ambitious, talented people who want a practical, hands-on education that prepares them for careers in the media and cultural sectors. An exciting range of practice-based modules allows students to specialise as they move through the programme. You’ll also be studying and discussing the role of the media in society, keeping an eye to emerging 21st century social and technological trends.
Photography | Design and Animation | Film, TV and Video | Audio and Radio | Digital Media Effects | Emerging Media Technologies | Screenwriting and Media Storytelling | Cultural Production | Theoretical Contexts | and much more...
Students explore photography as both a technical and creative practice, working across digital and film-based image-making. Through practical projects, studio work, discussion and critique, students develop visual storytelling skills while learning to shape and communicate ideas through still images.
Students work across graphic design, animation, multimedia and interactive media, developing creative and technical skills through hands-on projects. Areas of practice include visual effects, web design, motion graphics, 2D and 3D animation, and digital content creation.
Students develop practical production skills across fiction, documentary, experimental and digital video practices. From concept development to shooting and post-production, students learn to create screen-based work for contemporary media environments.
Students gain experience in audio production, radio broadcasting, presenting, sound design and editing through practical project work. Creative and technical skills are developed across recording, storytelling and sound production for a range of media contexts.
Graduates of the programme work across visual effects, film and television, photography, radio, design, digital media, and the wider creative and cultural industries.
The programme is designed to support students as adaptable creative practitioners. Students develop practical production skills while also learning to analyse, question and respond to emerging media technologies and cultural change.
“It was only when I went out into the workforce that I really felt the benefit of the broad set of skills I had learned.”
Carl Mullan, RTÉ
“It was the perfect mix of practice and theory. We were given the opportunity to express ourselves creatively through various projects.”
Aisling Durcan, Google
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