Promotional Media and Content Production: Practice - MSTU7002

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Module delivery information

Location Term Level1 Credits (ECTS)2 Current Convenor3 2026 to 2027
Canterbury
Spring Term 7 20 (10) Kaveh Abbasian checkmark-circle

Overview

Following on from ‘Theories and Contexts’, this module encourages you to build on your knowledge and reflective work on contemporary promotional media to design, create, and deliver your own small media campaigns. You will work within appropriate promotional media forms and styles, and strategically use particular media platforms to market a product or service. Through a series of professional workshops, you will learn the key creative and technical skills to deliver such content, including use of camera, video editing, and sound design, as well as experiment with how social media can be used to deliver and enhance promotional media content. Through the creation of promotional media campaigns, you will be able to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the core debates around the subject of public relations, marketing, and advertising.

Details

Contact hours

Lecture 8, Workshop 16, Screening (student work-in-progress) 8

Method of assessment

Short media outputs – Up to 4 minutes (or equivalent) Digital Output 1. Assessment Details: Complete a series of practical tasks worth 50%.
Up to 8 minutes (or equivalent) Digital Output 2. Assessment Details: Content Production project worth 50%.

Reassessment Method: Like-for-like

Indicative reading

Learning outcomes

On successfully completing the module, students will be able to: 
Initiate, develop and realise distinctive and creative work of promotional media within various forms of writing, aural, visual, audiovisual, sound or other electronic and digital media.
Apply their sophisticated knowledge of promotional media to create digital outputs reflective of the most recent trends and debates in the field.
Communicate effectively in interpersonal settings, in writing and in other media where appropriate.
Carry out various forms of research for their portfolios, creative productions or projects, involving sustained independent and critical enquiry.
Demonstrate through their practical work conceptual and practical understanding of key aspects of promotional media, and technical skills necessary to articulate their ideas creatively.

Notes

  1. Credit level 7. Undergraduate or postgraduate masters level module.
  2. ECTS credits are recognised throughout the EU and allow you to transfer credit easily from one university to another.
  3. The named convenor is the convenor for the current academic session.
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