The course is Brilliant Brunel University
- LouiseUnited States
- Brunel University, United Kingdom
- Broadcast Media Design and Technology
- Undergraduate Degree
- 2009
I would recommend Brunel because it is a whole life experience, and students will take away with them not just skills from the course, but knowledge learnt by being with many different people. Brunel will open your mind to a lot of things. Students will leave Brunel with a degree and importantly, not just an art based degree, but a technical degree, so you will have both creative and technical skills. Most courses focus on purely film, editing or 3D, but Broadcast Media at Brunel merges them all in to one and you come away with knowledge of all three.
Searching other Universities I discovered the Broadcast Media Design and Technology course at Brunel and became really interested. Having visited Brunel I was hooked! Brunel's course complemented the associate degree I had undertaken in Barbados where I studied Mass Communication involving lots of TV production, photography and video. The course is brilliant! It is the only course that I found that merges 3D graphics with real life video. The course teaches cultural aesthetics and lots of software e.g. Adobe, After Affects, Photoshop and Shake, the latter is used for editing and depositing video footage or images. We also use 3D Max to create 3D videos. Students learn skills and knowledge relevant to the broadcast industry e.g. film, broadcasting for live TV, making short advertisements for feature films, and even creating a show reel. We are also taught history of art providing a foundation of TV history, so students have an idea where TV began and where it is going. In the TV industry you can expect to work with many different people and there are specific modules which involve students working in groups learning team management and leadership. As this course emphasises a hands on approach to producing TV content, initially students receive a lot of help from tutors to master the skills and techniques. The tutors interact a lot with students and often communicate on a one on one basis. The lecturers are really nice people and if you become stuck on a particular aspect, they are always there to help or accessible by e-mail and get back to you very quickly.
Brunel's facilities are excellent and the Department has the highest standards of cameras equipment - equipment is phenomenal - every software is the latest package. What is essentially on offer for students is real TV standard facilities. Use of the large green screen features as a major part of our course facilities. We have probably one of the largest green screens of all UK universities. The green room has tons of lights in the studio used for creating a particular mood or giving a sense of realism to whatever piece of work you are creating. The green screen is used for chroma keying. Keying is a technique used to mix two images together by removing, in some cases, a colour or unwanted area of the footage. I lived on campus in year 1, and the good thing is that everything is in one location as it is an integrated campus. As a result, I found that I met a lot of different people from different backgrounds, interests and other degree programmes. It was really great that you experienced different people giving insights in to their cultures and customs and, believe me, there are lots of different cultures at Brunel. On campus there are shops and a bank, several different cafes and restaurants, a library, sports facilities, new gyms and million dollar running tracks, the best I have seen on a University campus, there are also lots of sports clubs and other clubs and societies that students can join e.g. the ACS - African Caribbean Society. Brunel also offers students the opportunity to participate in other additional activities like pottery, singing, drama, dancing (with approximately 20 different dance groups e.g. salsa), and you can even learn to play a musical instrument in the Arts Centre. There is so much that students can do it is very difficult to pick out one particular area.
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