Peter Handley
Entertainment Technology Portsmouth Universty Graduate
In June 2006, I graduated from Portsmouth University (UK) after spending the previous 3 years studying for a degree in Entertainment Technology (BSc), gaining the second highest mark available with a 2:1 (Second Class Honours – Upper Tier). Frustratingly I missed the top marks on this course by fractions of marks, but I was proud of my achievements nonetheless.
The Entertainment Technology degree has many different aspects for which students can select areas that are most relevant to their own goals. In my time I studied various methods of Web Design, Music/Sound Production and Creation, Image Manipulation, 3D Modelling Techniques, 3D and Flash Animation methods, Video Creation and Production and various aspects of Games Designing.
There was also a lot of media studies aspects incorporated into the course, so we evaluated other media produced professionally and by other students. Over-riding all these elements, and indeed across all these elements, the Entertainment Technology Department wanted all of their Portsmouth University Graduate’s to leave the course with a firm foundation in Project Management Skills, which is certainly an area that I have found a use for in every day life, when designing websites in my spare time or in my everyday life in my new career.
Entertainment Technology is a fairly recently developed course at Portsmouth University, and there are many different potential career paths for students who graduate with a good mark in this course.
I certainly was not aware that the Industry that I now work in Search Engine Optimisation/Managed Search Engine Marketing even existed, and many other former students now have jobs in wide ranging areas, from Web Design, Video Production, TV Presenting and Sound Engineering. The list could go on and on, as the degree touches upon so many different skill sets, that Portsmouth University Graduate’s from this course have a great idea of what it is capable to produce in the Entertainment Media. Obviously some students have better skills in some aspects of this, but they have an understanding of how all these elements can be incorporated together into whatever media they are trying to produce and market.
Portsmouth University Graduate’s in the Entertainment Technology field have so many options that it can be difficult to deciding which areas of the course to take into their working lives. I believe that the course has now been restructured to some degree, there was more emphasis given on the video and web aspects of the course and less sound production being taught during my final year, but the course is a great stepping stone into the media job world.
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