Course Overview - UAL Print Media & Journalism Level 3 Extended Diploma

A little about myself:

My name is Alfie Mills and I am studying Print Based Media and Journalism as a Level 3 Extended Diploma. I study this course at SouthEssex College on a 3 day per week basis ranging from Tuesdays to Thursdays. In this course I hope to develop and learn new skills in order to create and publish things such as books, magazines, and articles. I also wish to learn different techniques in which i can interview someone, take notes about what people say and learn the correct usage for a dictaphone and other equipment used in todays modern media.


What the course is and contains:

Print Based Media and Journalism is designed to take you into the hands of what a real professional publisher and reporter/article writer has to deal with in their day to day life. This includes learning software which is used on computers (Adobe software mostly) and also writing techniques to create our own articles and news paper stories like we would in the real world. 

This is not the only thing the course covers in 2 years though, here is a list of everything taught and produced in the course itself:
  • newspaper and magazine production
  • article writing
  • interview and presentation techniques
  • website design
  • photography
  • digital image manipulation
  • traditional print methods
  • visual analysis


Why I chose this course:

My initial choice for this course was because of the idea of being able to get creative with the idea of making my own products which could be published. I enjoy using my computer and programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator on a daily basis and also would like to potential work as someone who creates and publishes their own magazines or works in a company producing work to be published and seen by hundreds. This idea excites me and as a writer, artist and in general, creative person, this course ticked all the boxes for me.

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