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Interactive Media Design

BA (Hons)

What exactly is Interactive Media Design all about?

Interactive media is overwhelmingly a visually rich medium, combining graphic design, computer technology, video, animation, 3D modelling, motion graphics, sound, and digital games design. New and emerging devices like mobile phones and media players are combining with the Internet and transforming our definitions of media, blurring the boundaries between consumption and production, between information, communication and entertainment, and unsettling the apparent distinctions between spectator, user and producer.

Interactive Media cuts through boundaries and opens up opportunities for those of you who want to create, to express your creativity and produce exciting and engaging digital content.

Interactive Media Design is now set to play a significant role in the North West region with the development of Media City in Salford

What does studying Interactive Media Design in the Liverpool Screen School involve?

On the BA Interactive Media Design course, you will learn the tool sets and methodologies to design and develop concepts and produce high quality content for a variety of platforms and screens including:

If you want to study a course that is specifically attuned to the exciting changes taking place in the digital media industries today and develop your creative skills so that you can contribute to this revolution, the BA Interactive Media Design (hons) will prepare you for this role. Learning through practical application, both individually and in teams in a professional environment you will become skilled specialist graduates employable primarily as artists, animators, designers and producers of interactive digital content
Graduates of the course understand the technologies and production methods unique to the digital entertainment industries and are aware of the design potential for differing delivery platforms. You will develop specialist practical and theoretical skills in the development of graphic content. These might include:  

You will learn how to articulate ideas and communicate effectively to clients and within development teams. You will leave the course with innovative portfolios of work to showcase your creativity but with feet firmly on the ground having an invaluable knowledge of the workplace and a real-world approach to production methodologies.

What will I get out of studying this course?

This course presents an opportunity to push your creativity and the boundaries of new media content, to test your imagination and produce the digital applications you would like to engage with whether on a phone, TV, console, Web or in a physical space. As well as equipping you with skills for the new media industry the course also enables you to gain essential transferable skills, which are of lifelong value such as analysis and interpretation, presentation, teamwork, initiative and research.
The Interactive Media department is part of the new Liverpool Screen School which has been designated as a Media Academy by Skillset, the only institution in the Northwest to acquire this status, and this reflects the quality of the courses delivered here.

What are the Career Opportunities available in the Interactive Media, New Media or Multimedia sector?

The BA Interactive Media Design equips you with the skills and knowledge that could lead to careers in:

as well onto further academic study at postgraduate level.


Who are the People who will be teaching you on the Interactive Media Design course?
You will be taught by people who have been involved in digital media production for many years, and whose knowledge and expertise covers all areas of interactive media design from games animation, video production,  web design to interactive scripting. As a department we have won many awards for our work in the past and have developed courses and lectures which have been delivered in many countries. We have recently been awarded Skillset Academy status for the quality of the teaching and the courses delivered here in the Liverpool Screen School.

Who are our Partners in the Interactive Media and Creative Media Industries?

Conker Media
Lime Pictures
Skillset
Tubedale films
BBC
Onteca

Further information

Media Arts and Social Science Admissions Unit
Room 217 Dean Walters Building
St James Road
Liverpool
L1 7BR

Tel: 0151 231 5175
Email: massadmissions@ljmu.ac.uk
 

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