Are you interested in creating Theatre Sets, Film Sets, and Television Sets? Our Set Design and Production degree at UWTSD aims to equip you with the creative, technical, and professional skills needed to succeed in the creative industries. The programme is highly practical and industry-focused, embracing a multi-skilled approach to design methodologies and construction methods.
The course emphasises creative collaboration, working with industry professionals to ensure that our teaching remains current, relevant, and adaptable. You will be continuously developing a ‘toolkit’ of skills and making industry connections. This hands-on experience is essential for understanding the latest working practices in the Film and TV Industry and other creative sectors.
Our programme focuses on training you as a professional practitioner. You will gain in-depth knowledge of current working practices through a variety of skills-based practical modules taught by industry professionals. The skills and training embedded in the programme will prepare you for a portfolio career in various fields, such as design, scenic arts, self-employment, and entrepreneurship.
Throughout your studies, you will develop technical skills and design aesthetics, crucial for roles in Art Departments. You will also gain experience in 3D form, prop making, and sculpting, which are essential specialist skills in this field.
Our course is structured to provide you with the necessary work experience to be industry-ready when you graduate. We offer a collaborative studio environment, allowing you to engage in creativity and design while working on real-world projects. This experience will enable you to bring visual worlds to life, whether for stage and screen or for other TV & film set design projects.
The programme also includes training in costumes and props, enhancing your ability to tell stories through your designs. You will learn the art of storytelling and how to apply it to different media, giving you a competitive edge in the job market.
Our industry links ensure that you stay connected with professionals and trends in the creative sectors. This network will provide you with invaluable insights and opportunities for your future career. By the end of the programme, you will have a well-rounded skill set that includes niche skills, making you a versatile and sought-after professional in the creative industries.
Located on our immersive Carmarthen campus, as a Set Design and Production student you will have access to our specialised workshops. Embracing the philosophy that everywhere is a classroom within our creative community, you’ll also engage in creative collaboration across the Performing Industries portfolio.
Location: Carmarthen
Photography combines technical instruction and creative freedom. Whether you’re interested in digital photography or traditional darkroom-based work, you’ll receive expert support and tuition. This is an ideal subject for students wishing to follow a path into film, media, the arts and photography-related areas. Photography is regarded as a cross-curricular subject and is accepted by universities and colleges as a discipline showing wide-ranging ability.
Why choose us?
Continually achieving nationally recognised high standards. Fully-equipped darkroom and film developing room. Excellent range of computers, all with Adobe Photoshop. Yearly exhibitions of student work. 100% pass rate achieved since 2015. Freedom to plan your own major project theme.
Many students go on to study Photography, Film and Animation or Visual Arts at university, or combined degrees such as Historical and Cultural Studies, or Media and Computer Imagery. Possible careers include commercial/fine art photography, freelance photography/photojournalism, advertising, graphic design, multi-media, film and television.
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Assessments will be via a Personal Investigation assignment and an externally set task
This A Level course offers the opportunity to use a range of traditional and mixed media techniques alongside computer generated imagery
You will be expected to engage with complex design problems and to arrive at solutions that promote, publicise, inform, persuade and entertain. Outcomes are varied and student-led: from rebranding a shop or cafe, to designing an album cover, to producing the publicity for a festival or the packaging for your favourite product, the choice is yours.
BA Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance at Wimbledon College of Arts teaches you how to make life-sized props, animatronics and prosthetics for film, theatre and the wider entertainment industry.
BA Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance introduces you to a wide range of processes, techniques and practices within this field. The course covers 4 key areas:
- Concept and design
- Materials used within the field
- Design fabrication and assembly
- Interactive and applied technical arts practices
You will experience a range of techniques used within current industry. This will enable you to select and use appropriate methods and materials.
You will learn the art of efficiently developing suitable prototypes for the field and be able select the most effective way of realising a variety of design ideas as you progress through your studies.
Alongside practical work you will also look at creative research theories. These will include a scenographic approach to understanding objects in the contexts of environments and audiences. This will expand your knowledge of industry practices and extend your own ideas to place them within a wider field of performance making.
Your progression through the course will introduce you to current industry modes of making and designing. This will be complimented by trips to professional technical arts based production studios within the field of entertainment.
You will have an opportunity to define and refine your specialist area of interest so that you finish the course with a creative technical practice.
