Following our selection to validate the BA in Media Production delivered by Bournemouth and Poole college and Bournemouth University in 2009, we are delighted to have been approached to sit on the programme review board to appraise and enhance the current provision.

The review allows external input to help shape and develop the course framework to ultimately produce students that have aboth an academic and real-world understanding of their vocation.

By being approached to validate the course, BlueLevel's position as a growing force in the digital agency marketplace is further strengthened.

Course Director, Rob Forrester states:

"The course works towards producing students with a strong, creative, multimedia ability. Students should be leaving us with excellent skills in Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, After effects, In-Design, Video production and editing, web design, game creation, working with green screen and interactive video for web and animation. A strong theory content is also taught on the course, covering audience identity and the social effects of the internet and the media age, through to related subjects surrounding copyright and employment law."

Managing Director of BlueLevel, Tim Marcus comments:

"We wholeheartedly feel that the topics and subjects being covered within this course are going to be "lapped up" by employers looking at getting a members of staff who are able to comprehend the understanding of a full project (from brief to concept, from initial storyboarding to full integration, from budget constraints to audience consideration).

Very often degree courses offer a limited subject range and as such graduates exit study with only a very narrow appreciation of the industry that they are going into. This course however offers a very broad grounding and indeed, in-depth detail in some areas, of many of the fundamental aspects of the digital industry as it stands.

We have no hesitation in stating that we feel that this course ticks all of the "right boxes"- these skill sets are what most digital agencies are crying out to find."