Graduate employment and achievements

Graduates from Contemporary Media Practice have a high employment rate in many aspects of the media industries and professions. This includes: film direction, production and editing; BBC production and education departments; Channel 4 programming; internet design and start-up companies; commercial photography and photojournalism; photographic, video and media artists exhibiting internationally.

Each year our students win prizes, have their work shown in major festivals and gain employment in the field of their choice. We also have a strong record in preparing graduates for postgraduate study across a range of both practical and theoretical disciplines, as well as postgraduate teacher training.

Graduate employment and opportunities in the media industries have notably shifted over the past few years, and graduates from this course have demonstrated their responsiveness to these changes. We regularly monitor graduate career destinations, using this information to review the course curriculum.

Alumni

Aaqil Ahmed

Head of Religious Programming, BBC (previously Commissioning Editor, Channel 4)

Darren Bender

Film and TV producer (Exhibit A, Stephen Fry's Shorts)

Ruth Breslaw

Production coordinator and casting assistant (Code 46, A Cock & Bull Story)

Martha Fiennes
Film and music video director (Onegin, Chromophobia)

Ori Gersht

Photographer and internationally exhibiting artist (Tate, Guggenheim)

Philip Meech

Photojournalist/Freelancer (eg The Independent, & many commercial clients)

Zed Nelson

Photographer (editorial and reportage, eg The Guardian, TIME Magazine)

Remi Paringaux

Art Editor, Dazed & Confused

Rafi Pitts

Film & TV director (It’s Winter, Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty, Sanam)

Sohail Rahman

Presenter and journalist, Al Jazeera

Thomas Roope

Designer and artist (Tomato Interactive), founder of Antirom new media art collective

Elliott Jay Stocks

Freelance web designer and writer (clients include: The Beatles, EMI, Massive Attack)

Anand Tucker

Film & TV director (Hilary & Jackie, Shopgirl, Red Riding:1983)

Work experience

We require all students to undertake work experience in the second year. In recent years students have been placed with companies and organisations as diverse as:

BBC
Miramax
Channel 4
Endemol
Framestore
The Light Surgeons
Rankin Photography
Mentorn Media
Vertigo Films
Working Title
Talkback Thames
Company Pictures
Molinare
Tiger Aspect
Unruly Media
IPC Media

Many students also undertake a very diverse range of professional experience at other stages of the course, often at a high professional level.

To support your career development we offer mentoring opportunities with established employers and industry professionals. This allows you to gain support and advice appropriate to your career ambitions. Our students are also often invited to participate in productions and events by outside companies, so widening their experience of professional life.