Media production: focus on your future
A media production degree will give you a solid grounding in the industry, says David Sleight. Media production has become a hugely important and dynamic area because of the increasing use of digital options in the industry. All the original mediums of film, television and radio have become available in digital format; these new areas require talented media production graduates with a whole new set of skills.
Media education in the UK is in rude health. In its 2006 employment survey, Skillset – the Sector Skills Council for Creative Media – discovered that of people who have joined the media industry since 2004, 83 per cent hold a degree (compared with just 52 per cent who joined the industry before 1990) and a significant 44 per cent of those employees hold media degrees.
