Digital Video

Digital Video for Online Platforms covers a vast range of styles, approaches and genres, designed for small screen exhibition. From YouTube channels - to Netflix - to niche website content – there is no set definition for these types of moving image productions.

Exploring the vast landscape of online video content alongside the aesthetics for the small screen, experimental and alternative structures, the nature of audience viewing and interaction are explored in the autumn term, while students develop and pitch their own ideas for a project.

Students go on to develop their creative and technical skills to produce a fully developed website, and a film of up to 10 mins. The brief can be any subject, and the film can be of any genre and structural form; a documentary, a drama, episodic series of short or a mixture of genres. Research and copy for the website in the form of articles, still images or audio content provide an of additional skillset that sits alongside the filmmaking skills. With so many students entering the industry as online content producers, the course aims to respond to an expectation of being able to turn your hand to anything, which being able to produce innovative, original and critical content.