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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,920 - ≈ € 12,280 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
Screen design is the art of conceptualising, designing and producing innovative visual communication solutions for moving image. It is a powerful and expressive form of communication with a range of applications: film, television titles, branding themes, advertising commercials, screen displays for theatre, performance, corporate events and launches. It is about developing a dynamic visual vocabulary to explore mood and movement supported by innovative use of sound, music and language.
This course is the first of its kind in the UK devoted to this field and aims to stimulate new thinking in screen design and its uses, create opportunities for its application and nurture your entrepreneurial skills in exploiting the medium.
You will develop effective research, conceptual, design and presentation skills, and experiment in live action shooting, both on location and in the studio. You will explore storyboarding, camera use, lighting and blue-screen techniques, methods of animation, digital editing and effects, rostrum camera use, etc. This will all ultimately be compiled into a dynamic and impressively designed showreel of work.
Your projects will be set and tutored by industry practitioners and visiting guest speakers, and will be complemented by research-based modules that include interdisciplinary research and commercial practice.
Contents
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
Modules
* Exploration and Innovation
Through a range of innovative projects, you will explore themes stimulating investigation of new areas of practice, both creatively and technically. You will:
* further develop your critical understanding of different approaches to the creative process within your particular discipline, whether it is Illustration, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Animation, Drawing or Interactive Design; and
* begin developing an innovative body of work for inclusion in your portfolio which reflects your creative ambitions.
* Visualising Ideas
Building on the Exploration and Innovation module, you will begin work on more complex projects. Both set and self-initiated, these projects:
* will stretch your individual ability and maximise your creative potential;
* may be individually driven or undertaken with colleagues from within your own or other disciplines, depending on your projects' content, audience and final resolution; and
* will allow you to challenge established practice and build on your own creative values through personal development planning.
Once again, you will be expected to finish selected projects to a high standard for inclusion in your portfolio.
* Building Interdisciplinary Practice
Responding to the changes and new demands of the creative industries, this modules focuses on your team-working skills. External advisors from industry will set and review ambitious projects which:
* may be large and complex;
* will involve high-levels of creativity; and
* will test and develop your ability to negotiate, manage and co-ordinate your own and your colleagues' work to bring projects to a successful conclusion.
You will re-present work in the context of your portfolio, making your own contribution clear. You will also have the opportunity to develop an understanding of your career opportunities, build networks and cultivate professional practice.
* Practice Research Project
You undertake two substantial projects during this module, based around an issue which needs to be communicated to a group or an identified 'window of opportunity'.
Normally one brief will be set and the other self-initiated, although both will encourage questioning. The set brief will be open to negotiation, rewriting or re-positioning. The second, self-initiated brief encourages independence and should be born out of autonomous research and reflection upon reading interests or concerns. It could also be an extension of a subject which has already been touched upon during earlier projects.
In the development of projects you will research and liaise with outside agencies as appropriate. Most importantly, the self-initiated part of this module acts as a fore-runner to the final 'Major Project' - the success of these projects will indicate the appropriateness and readiness for the next stage, completion of the Major Practice Research Project.
* Major Practice Research Projects
Assessment
Critiques; tutorials; practical work; written work; major project.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
* Applicants should have a good BA(Hons) degree or equivalent qualification in communication design or graphic design.
* Graduates in fine art and film-based courses are eligible, but you will need a clear understanding of graphic design principles, an interest in the use of screen text and typography and a desire to communicate effectively.
* We also welcome applicants with relevant professional experience.
* All applicants should have: * a critical awareness of contemporary issues;
* a strong interest in the arts and current affairs;
* a broad range of personal interests; and
* good language and communication skills.
* As part of your application you must submit a portfolio of work.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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