BTEC Creative Media Production

Film and Television Production

BTEC Creative Media Production

• 100% Coursework Production based work with some written pieces.

• Film production, Music Videos, Screenwriting, Video blogs/ Documentary production.

• Running your own Film and Television production companies.

• Cinematography

• Editing (TV and film)

• Screenwriting

• Storyboarding

• Using a studio (lighting kit )

• Green-screening/Chroma Key

• Sound production and using sound kits

• Planning a production

• Proposals and Pitching

• Presentation skills

Facilities - The Studio

• Photography studio

• Studio lighting

• Green-screening facilities

• Imacs, Adobe Premiere for film editing and After Effects for VFX.

• Camera and mic kits

The Production Project

• Year 12: Short Film Production

• Year 13: Music Video Production

• These are worth over 50% of the qualification in both years.

• They can be produced individually or in production companies (groups) that you form.

What Next? • Media studies BTEC is recognised as a desirable

qualification and the majority of our students progress into Higher Education (university.)

• Many of our students specialise at HE – • TV producer • Journalism, • Broadcast journalism, • Film and TV production, • Radio production, • Marketing and PR • CGI design and animation • Screenwriting (film/TV/radio/games) • Events Management • Visual Effects for film and TV

• Transferrable skills – technical skills, analysis skills, team work, working under pressure and to deadlines etc.…

Progression - Ex- Students

Eddy Durnan is a Visual Effects Editor for

Framestore and has worked on many of the

Marvel films ; most recently on ‘Avengers:

Endgame’ and the TV series ‘His Dark

Materials’ on BBC1.

Adam Catterall was the host of the

Rock FM Breakfast Show and Gemma Baron

is a daytime presenter on Rock FM.

Greg Fee runs his own visual effects company and Joe Huxley is

a TV producer and has worked for the BBC and Channel 4.

Sam Fenton has his own

production company and

specialises in producing

music videos for artists.