MSc Multimedia

Length of course:

One-year, full-time on Monday and Tuesday, or two years part-time, one day per week

Location: Harrow

The MSc Mulimedia course is one of the longest-running interactive multimedia courses in the UK. Part of the Media Skillset Academy, it has excellent contacts with industry especially in education and music . Some of the modules are actually delivered in collaboration with companies in the industry, giving the course a real world feel. These close ties with industry also means the course has a very high success rate in helping students find jobs and placements.

The course was recently awarded a prize for its course content of free training videos in Flash, HTML, Director, PhotoShop and more. It was awar5ded a total of £40,000. The site has had great success and has become one of the most popular on-line training sites on the internet and supports the MSc in Multimedia course.

Our award winning website
http://www.multimediatrainingvideos.com/

You can also follow the word of the multimedia tea at the following places:

On Twitter
http://twitter.com/MMTVcom

On Facebook
http://facebook.com/MultimediaTrainingVideos

On youTube
http://www.youtube.com/multimediatraining

On Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/mmtrainingvideos

Course content

The course was developed after a lot of consultation with the industry, and covers common multimedia tools and scripting languages such as Flash, Director, Premier, Dreamweaver,3D Studio Max, HTML and PHP, but the emphasis is on the principals of multimedia. Areas such as human-computer interaction, design, usability and marketability of multimedia are all covered. You will not only understand how to develop content and then bring it all together in a developmental environment, but also to project manage the development of a product from the beginning right through to the production of a prototype. This allows you to move into a variety of fields such as development, project management, multimedia training, design, or continue on to a PhD.

The course has an excellent reputation for developing innovative uses of multimedia in the actual teaching of its courses and this has led to many national press articles and even TV coverage in France.

Feedback methods covered in French TV

The Guardian writes about training videos

Course Leader, Russell Stannard writes about the use of Twitter and Social Media in promoting multimedia content in the Times Higher.
Russell writes about Twitter and Multimedia

Russell writes about Social Networking and Multimedia

Core Modules

Interactive Multimedia Systems Design (Project Management of Multimedia)
Multimedia Development Environments (Working with Director/Flash)
User-Centred Interface Design
Research Methods and Transferable Skills (Looking at professional links and ways into the industry as well as projects and study skills)
Research Project (You can choose the topic, you are free to develop your project as you see fit as long as it develops your skills further in a direction in which you are interested)

Optional Modules

Applied Sound and Music Production (Cue base)
Digital Video Technologies (Premiere)
Electronic Documentation and Hypertext (HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript)

Multimedia Systems (Working with Flash)

Virtual Reality Environments

Associated careers

The MSc has an excellent record of finding work for graduates, with education and interactive TV among the most successful areas. More mature graduates often find work as project managers or in other types of management roles. Many graduates become developers, testers, designers or content researchers, and the emphasis on project management skills means that other graduates work freelance or develop their own businesses.

Links with industry

1-Modules connected to real companies

The MSc in Multimedia has very strong links with industry. This is largely due to the role of course leader Russell Stannard www.russellstannard.com who works in the multimedia educational industry and has worked on products with Pearson Education, Macmillan, BBC and Oxford University Press. Other members of staff also have very strong links in the creative industries.

Some of the modules are actually done in collaboration with real companies, so students are actually making a prototype or product for a real company rather than doing something out of context. Previous companies include

CLIC language school in Spain

OUP Publishing Company

Balberry Publishers

We are currently working in direct collaboration with 2Simple www.2simple.com who produce software for the educational market.

2-Presentations

During a year about 5 or 6 companies normally come down to present in the multimedia department. Typical talks include:

Adobe-Came down and presented work on Flash and Flex

Sauce UK-Presented their use of Morae for testing. Explained the process in testing software and ways that the information is used.

Tiscali-Talked about the role of interactive TV and its future

David Calvo- Search Engine expert who talked about the link between good accessible sites and sites that have high search engine rankings.

Apple- Came down and talked about Final Cut Pro

Getting Jobs: What students do after the course

Many of our students work as developers or project managers in the multimedia fields once they have finished the course. In recent years more and more students are moving into the multimedia and education section or working freelance. You can read about some of the students and the jobs they have got here.

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/jobs/index.htm

Entry Requirements

The course is open to those with computing or non-computing backgrounds with a First or Second Class Honours degree from a UK university or an equivalent qualification. A flexible attitude will be taken to those employed in an industrial or academic context that is intimately related to interactive multimedia. If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent.

Fees for 2009/2010

Further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries

Course Leader

Russell Stannard

www.russellstannard.com
Email: stannar@westminster.ac.uk

Russell Stannard won the "Outstanding Initiative in ICT" from the Times Higher in 2008 for his website www.teachertrainingvideos.com. The website has also been shortlisted for the British Council ELTons awards and has become one of the biggest multimedia training sites for teachers on the internet. He has an international reputation with very strong contacts in China and Egypt. He produces multimedia content for many language learning products and has worked with Pearson, Macmillan, the BBC and Oxford University Press. He brings many of his contacts into the courses.

What do the Students Say
1-Student introduces herself and what she learnt.

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/sawsan/intro.wmv

2-What did you enjoy most?

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/sawsan/enjoy.wmv

3-What about the assessment?

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/sawsan/exams.wmv

4- What did you do for the project?

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/sawsan/jobs.wmv

5-What is she planning on doing now?

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/sawsan/jobs.wmv