Audio-visual media designer

Show what’s happening on campus: As a media designer, you’ll plan, conceptualize, and produce media projects as part of a team. As part of your training at  virtUOS, this involves not only recording video and audio, but also working with editing systems, mixing video and audio signals from live recordings, publishing content for teaching purposes, and much more.

• Planning, conception and implementation of media productions
• Legal protection of productions
• Producing image and sound recordings
• Post-processing of raw material in the edit
• Publishing and integrating the finished contribution into learning management systems
• Setting up, testing and operating audiovisual production systems such as recording devices, transmission and communication equipment
• Mixing image and sound signals under live conditions
• Basics of electrical, audio and video technology

• Production of various journalistic formats (report, reportage, documentary, etc.), including the conception and content-related discussion of the topic
• Writing voice-over texts for the above-mentioned journalistic formats, in consultation with the client
• Installation, commissioning and operation of audiovisual production systems
• Post-processing image and sound material with non-linear post-production systems

In addition, trainees can take part in internal training courses at virtUOS and also carry out subject-specific training courses themselves.

Vocational School: The school-based training takes place in block sessions at the Multimedia Vocational School (MMBBS) in Hanover.

Duration of training: Three years; in some cases, the program may be shortened by six months.