Creative Media Practice (TV & Film) - Level 3 National Extended Diploma
Course Type
Further Education
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
2 Years
Start & End Date
1 September 2025
4 June 2027
Location
Coleraine
Interview Required?
Yes
This course is Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice. The main aim on this course is to get our students into industry, which we do by immersing them into a proper working environment. Technical skills are taught to a very high level by industry professionals and students regularly work with external, real-world clients. Organisations like the BBC, the National Trust, charities and businesses and local government have used work from our students. TV & film professionals visit the course to share their insight and experience. Students in turn visit television stations and participate in industry organised workshops, events and trips. We also partner with specialist universities, ideally placing students to enter the industry.
On this Multi Award winning course, students will use the Media Department's extensive range of up-to-date equipment. This course has everything a modern film maker needs, from top of the range video cameras and DSLRs to great portable lighting and sound kits and even a drone. Along with this editing suites with the best editing software in the world and a top class HD broadcast-standard television studio.
As well as benefiting from a top equipment specification, the course is delivered by media professionals, with connections to industry, backed up with visits, eg, to BBC and specialist guest speakers.
Over a two-year period, you will work on a number of practical projects, assimilating the skills and techniques used by professionals the world over. By the end of the course your level of training and portfolio of visual work will be such that you will be equipped to enter the industry, or proceed to a related University Degree.
You will study a range of units including:
If you are accepted onto this course without a Grade C or above in Maths and/or English you will be required to complete the relevant Essential Skills qualification. This will be a compulsory part of your timetable.
Former students have gone on to work for the BBC, UTV, Sky and a wide variety of independent production companies. Approximately nine out of ten students who complete progress to university; we have academic partnerships with the UK`s top TV training college, Ravensbourne, the University of Westminster and the University of Northumbria. As well as TV production, students also progress into related areas like film-making, journalism, marketing, PR, publishing and multimedia.
Applicants must be at least 16 years of age on or before 1 July in the year of proposed entry to the course and have at least 4 GCSE's at Grade C or above or other relevant qualifications.
This course is free of charge.
Further Education (Level 1-3) full-time courses including Apprenticeships have no course fees for most students:
Level 3 Further Education (full-time)
There are no tuition fees for Level 1 - 3 full-time students aged between 16 and 18.
If you are aged 19-24 and have already achieved a Level 3 qualification, fees will apply. Details of fees are available from any campus reception.
If you are aged 25 or older, fees will apply unless in receipt of a FE grant. (If you are aged 25 or older, admission to a full-time Further Education course will be considered on an individual basis at the College's discretion).
Level 3 Access Courses (full-time)
If you are in receipt of a FE grant, no fees apply.
If you are aged 19 or older and have already achieved a Level 3 qualification (3 A Level equivalent), fees will apply.
Details of fees are available from any campus reception.
All tutors are qualified and experienced counsellors. This underpins the authenticity of teaching and learning activities as students engage with practitioners who understand the challenges and opportunities of the counselling role. The following teaching team deliver this course at Northern Regional College:
Staff Team
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This course is Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice. The main aim on this course is to get our students into industry, which we do by immersing them into a proper working environment. Technical skills are taught to a very high level by industry professionals and students regularly work with external, real-world clients. Organisations like the BBC, the National Trust, charities and businesses and local government have used work from our students. TV & film professionals visit the course to share their insight and experience. Students in turn visit television stations and participate in industry organised workshops, events and trips. We also partner with specialist universities, ideally placing students to enter the industry.
On this Multi Award winning course, students will use the Media Department's extensive range of up-to-date equipment. This course has everything a modern film maker needs, from top of the range video cameras and DSLRs to great portable lighting and sound kits and even a drone. Along with this editing suites with the best editing software in the world and a top class HD broadcast-standard television studio.
As well as benefiting from a top equipment specification, the course is delivered by media professionals, with connections to industry, backed up with visits, eg, to BBC and specialist guest speakers.
Over a two-year period, you will work on a number of practical projects, assimilating the skills and techniques used by professionals the world over. By the end of the course your level of training and portfolio of visual work will be such that you will be equipped to enter the industry, or proceed to a related University Degree.
You will study a range of units including:
If you are accepted onto this course without a Grade C or above in Maths and/or English you will be required to complete the relevant Essential Skills qualification. This will be a compulsory part of your timetable.
Former students have gone on to work for the BBC, UTV, Sky and a wide variety of independent production companies. Approximately nine out of ten students who complete progress to university; we have academic partnerships with the UK`s top TV training college, Ravensbourne, the University of Westminster and the University of Northumbria. As well as TV production, students also progress into related areas like film-making, journalism, marketing, PR, publishing and multimedia.
Applicants must be at least 16 years of age on or before 1 July in the year of proposed entry to the course and have at least 4 GCSE's at Grade C or above or other relevant qualifications.
Course Fees
This course is free of charge.
Further Education (Level 1-3) full-time courses including Apprenticeships have no course fees for most students:
Level 3 Further Education (full-time)
There are no tuition fees for Level 1 - 3 full-time students aged between 16 and 18.
If you are aged 19-24 and have already achieved a Level 3 qualification, fees will apply. Details of fees are available from any campus reception.
If you are aged 25 or older, fees will apply unless in receipt of a FE grant. (If you are aged 25 or older, admission to a full-time Further Education course will be considered on an individual basis at the College's discretion).
Level 3 Access Courses (full-time)
If you are in receipt of a FE grant, no fees apply.
If you are aged 19 or older and have already achieved a Level 3 qualification (3 A Level equivalent), fees will apply.
Details of fees are available from any campus reception.
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