MA Immersive Media
This course prepares you to translate your creative ideas and digital skills into engaging immersive content and public media for diverse audiences. You will learn digital workflows in a professional environment, including within one of Europe’s largest immersive dome theatres located at Real Ideas’ Market Hall in Plymouth.
Be part of Plymouth’s creative technology movement, where you’ll develop creative concepts for this exciting and rapidly growing sector in the South West, UK.
Dive into a world of immersive technology with MA Immersive Media at Arts University Plymouth.
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Award: MA Immersive Media<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Study pattern: three 60-credit units over one year, or over two years part-time<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Core setting: Real Ideas’ Market Hall immersive dome theatre (professional digital workflows)<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Core areas: immersive content and public media for diverse audiences</p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">Led by expert staff and creative practitioners with pioneering experience in immersive media and digital world building, you will learn to develop original digital content for public and institutional spaces, including for a 360-degree dome optimised for seamless visuals and spatial audio.</p>
An audience watching a show in the Immersive Dome at Market Hall in Plymouth, the first of it's kind in Europe. Image credit: Studio Wallop
<p dir="ltr">In addition to developing media for fully contained immersion, you will be introduced to a wide range of related technologies and approaches to frameless media, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR).</p>
<p dir="ltr">These can be experienced through passive and interactive formats such as animation, game environments, surround sound, 3D visualisation, and 360-degree video and film, among other forms.<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">Through a sequence of three 60-credit units over the year (or over two years part-time), you will develop an individual or collaborative research project by learning state-of-the-art technologies to develop and produce innovative media that will fully prepare you for employment in any of the many sectors now embracing this emerging cultural form.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The university’s commitment to social justice and ecological citizenship provides a learning environment for developing projects that emphasise the unique aspects of public or community-led media.</p>
Real Ideas' Immersive Dome at Market Hall in Devonport, Plymouth. Image credit: Jay Stone
<p>With this focused expertise, and the opportunity to develop immersive media within a social context through our partnership with Real Ideas, a social enterprise, MA Immersive Media serves as a crucible for aesthetic innovation. It is uniquely attuned to the human aspects of immersive experiences, giving graduates a distinct advantage within the industry.</p>
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Work within a state-of-the-art dome facility, where student projects are created for 8k visual projection and a 19.1 audio speaker array.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Offered in partnership with Real Ideas/Real Immersive, based in a unique historic building at Market Hall, adapted for a 360 degree immersive dome and surrounded by production studios and suites used by industry professionals.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Opportunities to connect with other media artists and designers and exhibit your work through our South West regional and international immersive networks.</p></li></ul>
A packed audience watching a show at Real Ideas' Immersive Dome in Market Hall, Devonport. Image credit: Jay Stone
<p dir="ltr">Career opportunities include: Games Designers, Media Artists, Immersive or Augmented Experience Designers, Heritage Education Designers, Immersive Media Designers for Tourism, Product Developers, Science Educators and work with the Healthcare Industry.</p>
<p>It prepares you to translate your creative ideas and digital skills into engaging immersive content and public media for diverse audiences.</p>
<p>You will learn digital workflows in a professional environment, including within one of Europe’s largest immersive dome theatres located at Real Ideas’ Market Hall in Plymouth.</p>
<p>You will be introduced to frameless media including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR).</p>
<p>Your work can be experienced through passive and interactive formats such as animation, game environments, surround sound, 3D visualisation, and 360-degree video and film.</p>
<p>Through three 60-credit units over one year (or over two years part-time), you will develop an individual or collaborative research project using state-of-the-art technologies.</p>
<p>Career opportunities include Games Designers, Media Artists, Immersive or Augmented Experience Designers, Heritage Education Designers, Immersive Media Designers for Tourism, Product Developers, Science Educators and work with the Healthcare Industry.</p>
A dancer is silhouetted against the projections in the Immersive Dome at Market Hall. Image credit: Immersive Me
<p>Arts University Plymouth graduates are offered a <strong>discount of 15% on Masters programme fees</strong>, regardless of when they studied with us previously. The discount applies if you studied on one of our pre-degree, foundation or undergraduate programmes.</p>
<p>MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.</p>
<p>Your portfolio should give us an indication of the work that you have made, organised or been involved in. For our postgraduate arts, craft and design courses, we expect to see examples of work you have created. </p>
<p>For our MA Museum Studies, and MA Immersive Media courses, we don't expect you to have traditional artworks; instead you can share examples of projects you have worked on, classroom experiences you have created, and so on. Please ensure that your portfolio includes descriptions, website links and visuals if they are available.</p>
<p>The best deadline to submit your MA application by is <strong>1 July</strong>, however please be reassured that we can take late applications until the start of the course if places are still available.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:admissions@aup.ac.uk">admissions@aup.ac.uk</a></li><li><strong>Tel:</strong> +44 (0)1752 203434</li></ul>
<p>If you'd like to speak about Postgraduate study, you can <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/appointments/AcZssZ04mw0_Je9BjyEo_V5CwiIJJ3fT4ImT30b-BbY=?gv=true" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">book an informal online chat</a> with a member of our academic team:<br /></p><ul><li>Associate Professor <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/stephanie-owens" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephanie Owens</a>, our Dean of Arts, Design and Media</li><li><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/rebecca-dodman" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Becky Dodman Wainwright</a>, Co-Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies</li><li><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/jason-hirons" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jason Hirons</a>, Co-Course Leader for Postgraduate Studies</li></ul>
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