Music Production

British education allows you to obtain a university degree with the completion of a year of study if you have previously completed a two year course, or level 5 qualifications (120 ECTS). Applicants with relevant professional training and experience are also welcomed. This curricular year is called Top Up Year and allows you to achieve a Bachelors Degree.

Top-up courses are equivalent to the final year of an undergraduate degree and allow you to ‘top up’ an existing qualification into a full honours degree. Top-up degrees enable students to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of a particular topic while also receiving a Bachelors Degree, an internationally-recognized diploma.

Those who have completed a two-year course or have obtained a Level 5 qualification (120 ECTS) can apply for a Top Up Year.

In the majority of universities in the United Kingdom, such as Solent University Southampton, or at ETIC, in Lisbon, in partnership with that prestigious university.

The Top Up Courses at ETIC are perfect for those who have backgrounds in areas such as Art and Design, Multimedia, Digital Image, New Media, Digital Communication, Illustration, Web Design, Film and Television, Editing, Audiovisual Production, Animation, Graphic Production, Motion Design, Visual Effects, Sound, Music, among others.

The course curriculum is entirely developed by Solent University and is taught by British and Portuguese teachers in both in-class and online lessons. The B.A. Bachelors of Arts diploma is awarded by Solent University Southampton.

ETIC is a reference school in the creative fields. Project-oriented, it combines technique, creativity, and personal and professional development. Its connection to the industry links school projects to the reality of the labor market.

The school has state-of-the-art technological resources, such as HD video and virtual reality studios, professional HD régie, sound studios, photo labs and studios, design and computer labs.

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This unit requires students to undertake a written or practical research project within the broad fields of popular music and sound. It may take a variety of forms (including a written dissertation, business or practical project), and is negotiated with support and feedback from unit tutors who will discuss and approve project proposals. Building up on students’

ETIC Unit Leader: Alexandre Cortez
Solent University Southampton Unit Leader: Dan Pennie

This unit develops core production concepts from level 4 and 5 at an advanced level, and reflects the need for the contemporary producer to organise and oversee projects, as well as exhibit advanced listening and technical skills. Students will design, plan and execute a music or sound training product or service.

ETIC Unit Leader: Eduardo Vinhas
Solent University Southampton Unit Leader: Toni Diaz

This unit provides students with an opportunity to critically reflect and capitalize on their accrued skill-set on their course and in doing so, suggest appropriate career pathways post-graduation. The first part of this unit focuses on assessing the personal knowledge and professional skills required essential to employability in the music and entertainment associated industries and beyond. The second part of the unit addresses entrepreneurial and freelance business approaches, encouraging student autonomy both in and outside the creative arts economy.

ETIC Unit Leader: Rafaela Ribas
Solent University Southampton Unit Leader: Paul Rutter

This unit enables students to put music production and workplace skills into practice by following a brief set by a client. Drawing on and developing skills from previous units, students may achieve the outcomes of the unit in various ways. Clients can be sourced from inside or outside the university, and students will negotiate an appropriate brief with both client and tutor. A key emphasis of the unit is to give students confidence to approach unfamiliar problems by synthesising and developing knowledge, skills and previous experience.

ETIC Unit Leader: Ricardo Ferreira
Solent University Southampton Unit Leader: Toni Diaz

Addressing the issues, conventions and characteristics of fiction or dramatic production through production lectures and workshops, students will further develop their technical craft skills in audio by adapting an existing ‘script’. Students are required to record and embellish their chosen medium with existing and original SF/X and incorporate ambient reinforcement as well as original music. Students will be introduced to a range of stylistic and aesthetic approaches to audio post production values in their chosen medium. Additionally, it will be expected that they critically engage with their chosen media and that their work is informed by analysis of current cultural output and theoretical ideas.

ETIC Unit Leader: José Raposo
Solent University Southampton Unit Leader: Toni Diaz