Digital Media: Storytelling and Production MA

Our Digital Media Storytelling and Production MA empowers you to become a versatile and entrepreneurial digital media professional, blending advanced production skills with critical analysis of todays media landscape. This highly practical programme is designed to propel your career in dynamic fields such as content creation, social media marketing, mobile video production, interactive design, and digital project management.

Youll develop core skills in multimedia storytelling, including short-form video, podcasting, immersive media, and promotional content production. From video documentaries to social media campaigns, youll have the freedom to explore a variety of media platforms and narrative styles such as:

Audio and Video Production: Craft compelling narratives for podcasts, voiceover work, and mobile-first, vertical video content.
Social Media and Short-Form Video: Create impactful promotional content tailored for social media platforms, that tells snackable stories in seconds
Immersive and Interactive Media: Experiment with augmented and virtual reality to develop innovative, immersive experiences that redefine audience engagement.
Digital Publishing and Multimedia: Produce and publish content across digital magazines, websites, and apps, tailored to a global, mobile-first audience.
Documentary Filmmaking: Write and direct mini-documentaries that capture real-life narratives with immediacy and emotional depth for platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
Alongside these practical skills, youll engage with current debates in media and technology, exploring their impact on creative industries.

This critical approach sharpens your ability to evaluate trends and contextualise your work within a fast-evolving industry so that you cannot only produce great work but also innovate and drive the digital media industry forward.

Whether you're aiming to become a content creator, a social media marketer, a digital project manager, or an interactive experience designer, our course provides the skills and professional insight to excel in global digital media production roles.
Careers
The Digital Media: Storytelling and Production MA has been designed to reflect emerging storytelling modes across a spectrum of traditional and new platforms, giving you a wide range of storytelling skills to become an expert in the market.

This course provides a clear progression for students with a first degree in a non-media area
who now wish to develop their skills in media storytelling and production. In addition, for those who already have industry experience or are looking for a career change, this course provides the necessary tools to develop and extend existing skills, which will help them develop new careers or enhance their qualifications.

A minimum of a lower second-class honours degree (2:2), preferably in an area of digital or visual media, journalism, or design, but students with other degrees will also be considered. Applicants may be interviewed, set an assignment, or asked to submit a portfolio.