Media Courses at Kerry College

Digital Skills Training has been delivered by Kerry College in its National Digital Skills Centre since 1987. Yearlong practical skills courses in Media Production at Kerry College are available in Film & TV production (Broadcast Skills Production), Digital Content Production and Radio Broadcasting.

Digital Content Producer

This Digital Content Producer course will provide you with the skills to pursue a media production career in areas such as design, visual communications, online broadcast, media project management and more.

The emphasis is always on project-led, hands-on practical training. While you will learn the theoretical elements of digital content producer in a classroom environment, the majority of your time will be spent developing practical skills while undertaking an extensive range of project work. Undertaking these media projects will also allow you build an extensive portfolio of work.

Today’s world is a digital world, in which every individual, company and organisation has an increasing need to generate compelling media content to enable them to engage across a variety of digital platforms. This course will provide you with the skills that you need to generate this content professionally. These skills and abilities will in turn present you with a variety of opportunities and career path choices.

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Broadcast Production Skills (Film & TV)

This course has been designed to provide the Audio-visual industries with personnel who are skilled in specific disciplines within the Television & Digital Cinema Industries. Structured into three phases, Pre-Production (budgeting, planning, logistics, script writing), Production (single/multi location/studio, camera operations, audio, lighting, grip), and Post-Production (editing, grading, motion graphics, visual FX, distribution) the course aims to provide learners with real life experience executing projects, where they can hone their practical skills and enhance their related knowledge in research, client negotiations, script writing, location and studio work, editing and media distribution.

Learners on the Broadcast Production Course also get free access to “The Dawn Workshops” Industry training (Supported by Kerry College) – https://www.facebook.com › TheDawnWorkshops

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Digital Journalism & Radio Broadcasting

An industry-led, multi-award winning Digital Journalism & Radio Broadcasting skills course based in Tralee, County Kerry.

Learners gain the key practical skills and experience needed to work in the radio industry and wider media sector. The course is the only full time radio broadcast training course in Ireland delivered in partnership with a commercial radio station and the only course to win numerous PPI National Radio awards. Beyond broadcast radio, we study the connected worlds of digital storytelling and mobile journalism.

Former learners work at the BBC, RTE, Communicorp, UTV Radio, Independent News & Media, Thomas Crosbie Holdings, Maximum Media, the Independent Local Radio sector and a host of other online and media production companies. Former radio graduates have received over 30 PPI radio awards to date.