Portfolio requirements

For our BA (Hons) Television Production course, we're looking for you to select no more than 10 examples of your current work, that showcases your level and range of achievements. 

Your portfolio should show your skills, and your ability to develop a project or idea. We would like you to include examples of creative work that you have completed individually and/or in groups. This could include any of the following: 

  • Video projects, such as short film, music video, documentary, news or other TV format.
    • Social media video may also be appropriate if it showcases your creative concept development and postproduction skills.
  • Creative writing such as film scripts, stage plays or short stories
  • Audio work such as sound design or music composition 
  • Photographic work such as portraiture, reportage, fashion, wildlife or landscape etc.
  • Design work like storyboards, illustrations, concept art, posters or magazines
  • Journalistic work like news reports, current affairs and factual stories
  • Planning such as filming schedules, budgeting and risk assessment is also highly relevant
  • Research and critical writing, such as analysis of cultural texts like films or TV shows

You can bring work in physical form, as well as on a laptop/tablet. There will be the facility to show web links on one of our computers, but please make sure websites are publicly accessible because there may not be time to troubleshoot login issues. 

You'll be invited to share your work with the course team at an Applicant Day. Our Admissions Team will invite you to book your place at one of our Applicant Days after you have applied. 

Use of AI 

Your portfolio must contain your own work. We understand that some of your portfolio may include work created in part or whole by AI. You must acknowledge this by adding ‘AI generated’ to the relevant section(s), stating how you used AI to create images, and adding a link to the original image with the date it was created (where possible). 


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Applicant Days at UCA

Online Portfolios

If you are unable to attend an Applicant Day for this course, you will be asked to supply an online portfolio. 

The requirements for an online portfolio are the same as what we’d expect to see if you were to share the portfolio at an Applicant Day (please see above).

To support your work and to help us understand you as a creator, we would also like for you to write a commentary about your portfolio, which talks about your ideas, thoughts, and motivations. This allows us to better review your portfolio without you present. 

The Admissions Team will email you instructions on how to upload an online portfolio. 

Integrated Foundation Year  Applicants

If your course includes an integrated foundation year then you'll be developing your portfolio during your first year of study. Therefore, we're not expecting to see a fully finalised portfolio from you at this stage.  

We would, however, like to see your sketchbooks or projects you've worked on in school or college, to get a sense of your creative interests. 

Further information

If you have any more questions about your portfolio please get in touch with our Admissions team:

If you have additional needs you haven’t yet told us about – whether it’s learning support or physical assistance – we can work with you and support you through the application process. Please contact relevant campus to discuss this with us:

Getting in touch early gives us plenty of time to discuss any reasonable adjustments you might need.