Course Title - Film and Visual Effects
Course Level - BA(Honours)
Entry Requirements - 240 UCAS points
Description
Advances in technology have made special effects, such as computer-generated imagery, more readily available across moving image disciplines, including film, video and computer software.
This course builds on your artistic ability and gives you the core skills to use emerging and future technologies. These technologies are essential in producing successful visual effects in film and associated industries.
You develop the technical skills to use the most up-to-date camera techniques. You also learn to use industry standard animation and digital compositing software such as Autodesk Maya and Adobe After Effects to produce original and professional standard work.
One of the key elements of the course is that you are closely linked and interact with students from other courses including games design, animation and digital media production. This gives you excellent opportunities to showcase your skills and talent in fun and challenging ways.
We support this practical experience with contextual studies. This gives you the knowledge and ability to become critically responsive, allowing you to evaluate and ultimately improve the quality of your own productions.
You play an important role in producing at least three short films. This enables you to build your show reel as a filmmaker. You gain key skills in areas such as visualisation and developing projects through collaboration.
The course teaches across the genres of fiction, documentary and experimental film. It encourages cross-fertilisation of ideas, innovation and originality. We emphasise production, and focus on independence and creating new kinds of cinema and moving image.
Type of Work
Year one
• introduction to special effects • film making technologies • the film industry and contemporary practice • practical projects • understanding the media industry
Year two
• practical projects • contextual lectures and mentoring • theories of creative practice • critical methods • research and investigative methods
Year three
• planning and organising creative projects • special effects/film making workshops • collaborative work • dissertation
Why i would like this course
Apart from gaming, films are another of a keen interest of mine and I always have to see all new films that have been release. I can be very critical of the experience and visuals these pieces of cinema can deliver and have always wondered how you would create visual effects in live action footage.
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