Media Production: Future Students
A comprehensive production program that prepares creative producers and makers to lead work across screen, audio, live entertainment and emerging platforms.
Media Production gives students experience across television and video, audio and podcasting, games, live production, digital content, AR and VR, and transmedia storytelling. Students learn how to develop an idea, organize people and resources, work with production technologies and deliver a finished experience to an audience.
The program develops both makers and production leaders. Its combination of creative development, hands-on production, media business and audience engagement enables students to discover where they work best while understanding how a full team collaborates from concept to completion.
Full-time format
4 years
Degree earned
Bachelor of Arts
Experiential Learning
Global learning • Internship available
Admission requirements
Grades only
What sets this program apart
Recognized by The Hollywood Reporter among leading international media schools, the program offers broad production learning across multiple media forms. Students work with professional facilities including the Allan Slaight Radio Institute and Arthur Smith Virtual Production Studio while developing the creative, technical and leadership range needed as platforms and audiences change.
Skills students develop
- Writing, development and creative producing
- Video, television and digital production
- Audio, radio and podcast production
- Games, immersive media and transmedia development
- Production planning, budgeting and team leadership
- Post-production and technical workflows
- Audience development, pitching and entrepreneurship
Career possibilities
- Producer, director or production manager
- Writer, researcher or content developer
- Television, video and digital production
- Audio, radio and podcasting
- Games, immersive media and interactive entertainment
- Post-production and technical operations
- Media entrepreneurship, development and strategy
Employers
Employers range from national to international firms.
- Bell Media
- Blue Ant
- Netflix
- Apple TV
- CBC
- CBC Radio
- Corus Radio
- Insight Productions
- McGillivray Productions
- Rogers
- TLN
- Vanguard Media
The TMU and downtown Toronto advantage
Students learn in Canada's largest media-production market, near broadcasters, production companies, studios, festivals and technology firms. TMU's downtown studios, internship opportunities and industry relationships make it possible to combine campus production with direct exposure to professional practice.
Concentrations
A Concentration is a structured plan of study within a program (6 to 12 core or core electives) that provides an opportunity for advanced or in-depth study in a particular area of interest. Students must declare their concentration prior to applying to graduate. Courses used to fulfil the requirements of a concentration cannot also be used to fulfil the requirements of a minor.
The following optional Concentrations may be selected from within Core Elective Table I. Concentrations are optional, but must be formally declared and completed before graduation to be noted on the academic transcript.