Course Content
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
This all encompassing subject ensures you have a solid understanding of drawing-based theory including mark making, colour theory and perspective theory that takes into account how work is produced. Over the year you will cover off the following areas:
- Elements of composition, tone, colour, texture, form and structure
- Observational analysis
- Visual interpretation
- Improvisation techniques
- Rendering the abstract
- Experimental drawing
CRITICAL AND CONTEXTUAL STUDIES
Critical and Contextual Studies is a course designed to develop you as a student. The course provides an introduction to significant movements and ideas in Art and Design History to allow students to deepen their knowledge, visual literacy, and personal understanding of key concepts essential for working in the creative industries. Weekly assignments and individual presentation tasks are used to help develop writing, research, and speaking skills that build confidence and prepare students for university interviews. The course encourages students to reflect on their own work, to consider the context in which they are working and the type of practitioner they want to be.
ENGLISH TRAINING
Through a variety of teaching styles, we focus on four key skills you need to pass your IELTS exam; listening, reading, writing and spoken English. This subject is linked with your Contextual Studies lectures so you are better equipped with vocabulary to explain your workings and promote your final pieces.
ANIMATION & FILM
This is an introduction to Animation and Film as forms of communication and artistic expression. We will cover a range of handmade and digital processes used to create moving images, build worlds, and tell stories. You will learn about all elements of animation and film production, from initial concept through to completed piece of moving image content with sound. We will watch and discuss films, visit exhibitions, work quietly in dark rooms, explore the outdoors, write, draw, record, imagine and create! Possible outcomes are narrative and experimental short films/animations, documentaries, music videos and multimedia installations.
Example skills learned | Stop Motion, Cut-out Animation, 2D Animation, Rotoscope, Collage Film, Cinematography, Storyboarding, Character Design, Concept Art, Sound Design, Video Editing, Production Planning.
Preparation for | Animation, Experimental Animation, Character Animation, Computer Animation, Directing, Film + TV Production, Art Direction, Modelmaking, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics, Game Design, Games Art, Moving Image Art, Artist Film.
