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BSc (Hons) Outside Broadcast Technology
Making sport, drama, and music programmes for TV and radio using complex multi-million pound outside broadcast vehicles has become a mainstay of the TV and radio production world. The BSc (Hons) Outside Broadcast Technology course is part of the broadcast technology cluster and is specifically focused on the technical aspects of radio and TV outside broadcasting: this includes providing, operating and maintaining all the technical systems used on an outside broadcast, such as power systems, communications, satellite links and radio cameras.
The BSc (Hons) Outside Broadcast Technology course provides a unique opportunity for you to gain the professional skills, knowledge and experience necessary to gain employment in an ever-expanding industry, where understanding of the latest developments in technology and delivery platforms is paramount.
The BSc (Hons) Outside Broadcast Technology course is appropriate if you wish to pursue a professional career in outside broadcast engineering.
Level 1
At level 1 you will develop a range of technical and creative skills in a variety of specialist disciplines related to broadcast operations. You will gain experience and knowledge of collaborative working methods and processes within an industrially-focused multidisciplinary environment. You will also acquire the research and writing skills necessary for serious academic study at Honours level that will enable you to engage critically and analytically with current debates within the discipline.
You will cover a range of key topics including:
contextual studies: theory and context; opportunities, trends and ideas; professional context; communication and visualisation; operational skill; broadcast technology; production skills; HD post-production and digital post-production effects.
Level 2
At level 2 you are encouraged to work more independently, to develop your critical thinking, and to develop your transferable skills and competencies. This process will enable you to develop your creative, business, professional and academic skills whereby you will be able to generate ideas and produce them to a completed solution and then apply these skills into a variety of applications.
You will cover a range of key topics including:
contextual studies: debate and polemic; contextual studies: dissertation preparation; marketing strategy; advertising and promotions; applied operations 1; applied operations 2; recording and transmission; and multi-platform production.
Level 3
At level 3 you will develop a wide understanding of professional practice, a knowledge of media, the media industry and how business works together with the skills to progress within an organisation and to act entrepreneurially within the market place.
You will graduate with a portfolio of work that has stretched your capability and skills and will fuel your aspirations towards a broadcast career across programme-making and content production.
At level 3 you will study the following subject areas:
contextual studies: dissertation; enterprise and entrepreneurship – making it happen; major project report; broadcast news – including satellite feeds; professional skills – group project; individual major project (portfolio unit); and advanced operational skills.
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Contextual studies, and enterprise and entrepreneurship
The adaptability necessary to succeed as a design or media specialist comes not only from deep disciplinary knowledge. Graduates also need a breadth of knowledge and skills which some commentators have referred to as being ‘T-Shaped’. These additional skills include the ability to work with and increasingly work across disciplines, entrepreneurial attitudes and a knowledge of the business contexts in which they will operate. All undergraduate Ravensbourne programmes incorporate curriculum and learning activities designed to develop these skills in our students. Cross-disciplinary collaborative projects offer students the opportunity to work in teams with other disciplines.
The course structure draws on the creative synergies and frictions of the different disciplines at Ravensbourne and provides physical and intellectual opportunities for students to meet, learn and work together with students from different disciplines.
Students study subject specialist units, shared units and core units. Subject specialist units focus on subject specialist methodologies, technologies and processes and offer project-based learning that simulates contemporary professional practice.
Shared units are units which bring together courses in analogous specialist subject areas and allow students to gain skills common across these specialist subject areas, or to develop skills complimentary to those of the other specialisms and to work together on collaborative projects in the kinds of interdisciplinary teams common in industry. They therefore begin to introduce students to the real world context of specialism, a world where inevitably specialists work in inter-disciplinary teams.
Core units provide fundamental knowledge, skills and contexts which we believe are necessary for all the creative professionals who graduate from Ravensbourne and set students up with a model of the types of knowledge they will need continuously to update throughout their careers. Core units equip students with the ideation, visualisation and communication skills required in the creative process characteristic of design and media industries and common across our disciplines. They also provide the conceptual skills, theoretical frameworks and professional contexts necessary for students to position their work and develop their professional identity. Additionally, they ensure that students gain the promotional, marketing and enterprise skills necessary to make success happen in the real world.
Three years full-time
Ravensbourne’s BSc (Hons) Outside Broadcast Technology course is available as a full time three-year course.
Assessment
You will be assessed through the completion of practical and written work including essays, critical analysis, individual and group presentations, critical self and peer-evaluation, practical and technical tests, and the completion of individual and team projects.
Learning and support
Your learning will be focussed on tutorials, practical exercises and projects guided by teaching staff and external broadcasting professionals.
Laptops
You are required to own or have access to a laptop from the beginning of your studies. Laptops are an essential tool to support personalised learning and give you access, when and where you want it, to many of the creative tools and educational resources you will encounter during your studies.
Laptops are used extensively in all of our courses. You will need one to access our network, and to research, communicate and collaborate during your studies.
Career prospects
Graduates can expect to find employment opportunities in a wide range of broadcast organisations, facilities houses and related communication industries.
Duration
Three years full-time
Entry requirements
Students will normally be expected to possess five GCSEs (grade C or above) or equivalent (including English and Mathematics) and also to hold at least one of the following or equivalent UK or international qualification:
• 2 A levels (grades A-C) or 4 AS levels (grades A-C)
• 2 vocational A level (grades A-C)
• Level 3 Foundation Diploma or National Diploma
• Advanced Diploma (grades A-C)
• International Baccalaureate (28 points or above)
How to apply
UCAS code: H6L2 (3 year route)
Institution: RAVEN R06
Progression
Successful completion of this course can lead to postgraduate study in MA / MSc Broadcast Futures.
Fees
£8,500 per year
Validated by
City University London
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