Portfolio Requirements
Your portfolio for our BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production degree should comprise up to five examples of original produced music or sound design.
Please include work you are most proud of and that demonstrates your musical and sonic interests to the best of your abilities. It could include a collection of produced beats, a video of a performance, the music to a short film, a piece of sound design. In other words, it should represent you, your interests, and your process.
We recommend you load your portfolio to one of the following platforms:
- Vimeo
- Soundcloud
- YouTube
- Dropbox
- Box
- Google Drive
Links can be either public or private. If private, please make sure you know your password. You can bring material of any length; however, we can only guarantee that we will listen to five minutes in total.
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).
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.
Portfolio advice webinar: 14 January
Applying to university can be stressful, but don’t worry, we’re here to help. You’ll leave this webinar with an understanding of how to build an outstanding portfolio.
Further information
If you have any more questions about your portfolio please get in touch with our Admissions team:
- UK students: admissions@uca.ac.uk
- International students: internationaladmissions@uca.ac.uk
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:
- Canterbury: disabilitycanterbury@uca.ac.uk
- Epsom: disabilityepsom@uca.ac.uk
- Farnham: disabilityfarnham@uca.ac.uk
Getting in touch early gives us plenty of time to discuss any reasonable adjustments you might need.