BA & FDA DIGITAL MEDIA.
BA & FDA DIGITAL MEDIA.
Degree Qualifications in Digital Media in Bodmin
Fusing traditional and emerging forms of communication, our courses prepare you for a career in the rapidly evolving digital media industries. Created out of our extensive experience in Creative Digital Education, Bodmin College is delighted to be partnering with Falmouth University in the development of our FdA and BA Digital Media courses.
Bodmin Gallery & Creative Studio is a high-street hub for graduates of the FdA and BA (Hons) Digital Media degrees, offering a bridge between education and industry. It provides a professional space to develop creative practice, collaborate on real-world projects, and access exhibition and paid commission opportunities, supporting graduates to establish themselves within Cornwall’s growing creative sector.
Why Digital Media at Bodmin?
“The course’s currency of practice, wide range of skill development, and strong focus on professional portfolios make it stand out. The integration of social enterprise and community engagement is a true USP.”
“The variety of briefs is a strong point, particularly in modules such as Innovation and others that challenge students with external briefs and competitions.”
“The external focus of projects within the context of Bodmin is a clear way to place everything in a real-world setting.”
“A strength is that the year groups have the opportunity to collaborate — to create studio-based work and share their knowledge and experience.”
“The course offers a holistic approach to the skills required in a modern digital media industry.”
“The collaborative filming project is a highlight, giving students not only a good technical grounding in multi-camera studio-based media but also experience of industry-recognised production roles.”
ABOUT Your Course Team
Mark Talbot has a degree in Sculpture, and has taught at Bodmin College for 20 years, during which time he has pioneered the use digital technologies to enhance learning. Mark also owns and runs The Square Gallery St Mawes with his wife Catherine
Jon Drever is a British director, producer and screenwriter, mostly working in comedy genre. He is best known for his collaborations with comedian Brett Goldstein, which include the low-budget feature film SuperBob (2015).
Together with his business partner, Orlando von Einsiedel, Jon co-founded the production company, Grain Media, which produced the Academy Award, Emmy and BAFTA-nominated feature-length documentary Virunga (2014), released on Netflix
Course overview
FdA Digital Media
2 Years Study at Bodmin College
BA (Hons) Digital Media
1 Year Study at
Bodmin College
Who are we looking for
Both the FdA Digital Media and BA(Hons) Digital Media (Top-up) are awarded by Falmouth University. Falmouth University is a recognised higher education institution with the authority to confer degrees, diplomas, certificates, and other academic awards up to and including taught Master’s level, in accordance with its Articles of Government.
Students who successfully complete the FdA Digital Media are eligible to apply for direct entry to the final year of the BA(Hons) Digital Media (Top-up) programme.
Course delivery and assessment methods
The FdA and BA (Hons) Digital Media courses provide a comprehensive understanding of digital media and its real-world applications across creative industries.
Students attend three in-person days per week, combining lectures, seminars, workshops, and practical sessions. Outside of these, around 20–30 hours of self-directed study are expected, including research, independent project work, and assignment preparation. Studios are open five days a week to support self-study.
Teaching is led by an experienced team of practitioners and educators, supported by a Visiting Lecturer Programme (one day per week). Staff bring professional expertise from across the digital media sector, offering insight into current industry practice and trends.
Assessment is entirely coursework-based, including written reports, practical and group projects, presentations, and reflective work. Regular feedback from staff and peers supports ongoing development and progression.
From the outset, students engage in live, client-led projects, gaining valuable industry experience and building a professional portfolio. The courses combine creative exploration, technical skill, and critical understanding, preparing graduates for diverse and evolving careers in digital media.
FdA Year 1 Modules
This module focuses on the craft of telling stories and how you connect audiences to your narrative. Through a series of practical and theoretical assignments you will be introduced to the fundamental principles of visual language alongside the exploration of production practices and techniques associated with Digital Media.
A compelling multi-layered narrative stimulates an audience’s curiosity and imagination. Drawing your audience through your story, you will explore what makes a captivating narrative and evolve a visual and audio vocabulary of still and moving image language that will form the basis for you to begin to shape your individual character and position as an emerging practitioner.
This module explores the relationship between stakeholders in a communication process. Relationships with place will be informed by the needs and expectations of a client.
Location specific projects exploring interdisciplinary themes and media, (including sound, moving image, photography, illustration) will encourage students to investigate diverse and experimental approaches to storytelling, challenging perceptions through human interaction with immediate locations.
Place interactions may offer greater understanding, historical or cultural perspectives, communicate messages, send us the right way or just help us to know more.
You will engage with the key changes brought about by interaction; the blurring of lines between creator and observer, systems and users, in new and emerging Digital Media practices and technologies.
This module explores the relationship between stakeholders in a communication process. Relationships with place will be informed by the needs and expectations of a client.
Location specific projects exploring interdisciplinary themes and media, (including sound, moving image, photography, illustration) will encourage students to investigate diverse and experimental approaches to storytelling, challenging perceptions through human interaction with immediate locations.
Place interactions may offer greater understanding, historical or cultural perspectives, communicate messages, send us the right way or just help us to know more.
You will engage with the key changes brought about by interaction; the blurring of lines between creator and observer, systems and users, in new and emerging Digital Media practices and technologies.
This
module marks an important transitional stage for you as an emerging practitioner,
from tutor set assignments and group managed outcomes to independent goal
setting and a more individual approach to the discipline.
You will begin to reflect
more critically on future prospects, with a greater emphasis on personal
exploration of future directions as you begin to tailor your experience through
growing specialisation and ambition.
You
will negotiate self‐directed or client led assignments, identifying potential
opportunities, developing new insights and challenging conventions as you begin
to build your professional identity and positioning
within emerging and (often) temporary contexts and platforms associated with
the discipline.
This module will
equip you with knowledge to engage in constructive and critical debate and will facilitate further development of research
methodologies, theory, scope and
contexts of contemporary Digital Media practice towards a sustained written
outcome reflective of your individual enquiry.
FdA Year 2 Modules
This module supports
your creative and personal academic and career ambitions. It is informed by
risk, experimentation and ‘real world’ contextualisation - the essential
drivers for the module DTM201 Realisation.
This module
introduces a range of theoretical and practical positions that have been
informed by and arisen from methods of contemporary and future digital
media practice.
You will develop
critical understanding of the dynamic relationship
between Digital Media technologies, social formations and individual subjectivities.
There will be a strong
emphasis on developing a proactive and enterprising approach to applying your
understanding to your production work.
This module will
prepare you for progression to stage 3 study in relation to the extended
contextual assignments, and more independent project management expectations of
creative studio practice.
This module enables you to independently express
your passion for a specialism within Digital Media and grow confidence in
delivering projects within a professional context.
Building on skills developed during the earlier
stages of the course, this module encourages you to evolve and deploy skills
and competencies in applied digital media practice from idea generation,
through project development and production to delivery.
The module enables you to become more autonomous in
your practice as you begin to prepare for Stage 3 of the award and a personal
exploration of future directions.
You will be encouraged to embrace new experiences
and pursue more challenging independent goals in conceptual development and
technical competencies.
The practice based self‐negotiated assignments will
encourage you to identify potential new opportunities and develop new
insights into existing problems by challenging conventions.
This module explores the relationship between stakeholders in a communication process. Relationships with place will be informed by the needs and expectations of a client.
Location specific projects exploring interdisciplinary themes and media, (including sound, moving image, photography, illustration) will encourage students to investigate diverse and experimental approaches to storytelling, challenging perceptions through human interaction with immediate locations.
Place interactions may offer greater understanding, historical or cultural perspectives, communicate messages, send us the right way or just help us to know more.
You will engage with the key changes brought about by interaction; the blurring of lines between creator and observer, systems and users, in new and emerging Digital Media practices and technologies.
The
module marks an important transitional stage in the award, from tutor set
assignments and managed project outcomes, to independent goal setting and
personal exploration of future directions.
This module will prepare you in the development of
your portfolio for either progression to Stage 3 of a degree course or
professional creative practice. The module will create the platform for you to
critically develop and communicate your creative Digital Media practice.
You will be expected to engage with both self-authored
and/or externally set briefs that allow you to explore subject-specific areas
of interest, at the same time pushing and challenging your creative potential.
As part of this you will be encouraged to embrace new
experiences and accept more challenging goals. You will be supported by workshops
on brief writing and project management. You will be expected to present your
work, during the module and at assessment, including final outcomes and
development work.
Key to success in this module is the independent
project management expectations of the studio assignments and your
professionalism in delivering work for client/s. This will enable you to
sustain and build upon your commercial relationships and critical business
skills developed during the course.
Your work will be presented in a major exhibition to
mark the end of your stage 2 study.
BA(Hons) Year 3 Modules
Through a range of challenges including client and self-initiated briefs that explore alternative models of practice, you will be encouraged to reflect upon your strengths, motivations and personal futures in Digital Media Industries and begin to shape your personal transition out of the degree and into professional practice.
The module will emphasise the importance of analysis, innovation, collaboration and idea generation within the process of creative problem solving, whilst identifying and understanding the challenges of a client’s requirements.
Students will develop strength in a portfolio of work that prepares them for the next stage in their career journey. A portfolio will first and foremost challenge creative potential and encouraging diversity and breadth, with the aim to locate high quality professional practice within a wide range of professional contexts.
This module will guide you through conducting an inventory of the knowledge, talent, strengths and skills you have. This will form the basis for developing your professional strategy.
You will begin by analysing your industry and learning experiences to date and identify appropriate professional career options based on your studies and industry experience (including work placements).
Your work for this module will focus on a Contextual research study in which you will apply knowledge to develop your own academic and professional voice.
You will employ advanced research methods to critically evaluate your own research, applying academic rigour and intellectual criticality to deliver a substantial and complexed study that communicates a deeper understanding of your selected area of Digital Media.
You will explore current and future markets responding to perceived gaps in knowledge and understanding, and identify opportunities for your professional practice..
Drawing on Innovation and Critical Contexts this module will support you in positioning your
practice contextually, creatively and strategically in your transition to first career steps or
postgraduate study.
This final realisation will draw on your extended knowledge of the professional contexts of
digital media practice, critical theory and will result in a sophisticated resolution of a final
body of work at a professional level.
Workshops and creative discussion will reflect on personal practice, focus on the strength of
your ideas and challenge conventions.
You will carefully consider communication tools and distribution channels for your work that
may include online and offline spaces. You will develop a clear rationale in a folio that
evidences your understanding of industry practice and supports your chosen potential career
paths.
Your final body of work will be the result of detailed autonomous exploration in order to
accomplish individual and authentic output, in your chosen area of digital media.
A Portfolio pitch presentation to clients, tutors, invited industry guests and alumni will
enable you to identify and demonstrate your independent engagement with opportunities
relevant to your next steps following graduation.
For this you will select and integrate a range of media to produce compelling communication
to articulate your work, your ideas, your unique interests, values, strengths and individual
ambition following graduation, in visual and oral form to your audience.
What our Graduates do
Building on a range of approaches to Digital Media through viewing, discussion and analysis, you will choose your own path through our degree. You will be encouraged to work for a broad range of clients on 'Live Work'.
You will be supported to develop your communication with clients and ensure that you creatively meet set briefs. You will also be encouraged to develop skills in entrepreneurship and will be supported to set up your own business whilst studying.
Self-employment, Sblngr,
Freelance Graphic Designer
www.sblngr.com
Photographer and Photo Chemist. Major exhibition in 2019 at Devonport Guildhall
www.markpearson.co.uk
So you're considering Bodmin, you'll probably have a few questions about the course, what we look for when we're selecting our students, and what it's like to study here.
Important information pertaining to your studies, and
the regulations that govern your studentship, can be found on Falmouth University's website here.
In particular, you should note the 'Student Terms & Conditions', 'Academic Regulations', 'Student Code of Conduct', and 'Academic Integrity Policy'.
If you are dissatisfied with the level of service that you have received with Bodmin College and wish to make a complaint, please read and follow the Bodmin College Complaints Policy and Procedure, which can be found on
Falmouth University's website here.
University's Academic Calendar for study block/term dates can be found on Falmouth Universities website here
Contact Mark Talbot, Course Leader FdA and BA(Hons) Digital Media below:
Unit 16 Woods Browning Industrial Estate
Bodmin, Cornwall. UK
PL311DQ
+44 (0)1208 72114 (ext 1022)
