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Photography

from Prospectus 2022-23

from Prospectus 2022-23, page 32

Graphic Design

Photography is needed today as much as any other time in the history of the medium. Everyone has a camera but not everyone is capable of making a brand, product, individual or landscape come alive with stunning images.

This course is based in superb facilities with staff who practise in the industry, so you can be assured of an exceptional learning experience. The focus is on providing you with the technical and creative skills you will need to become a successful practitioner in this industry. This means fulfilling client briefs on time and within budget, while producing stunning high-quality images - or documenting the world around you through your vision. This BA (Hons) Photography programme integrates creativity with practical skills – designed to prepare you for employment in the creative imaging industry. Our course has been developed in consultation with professional practitioners, trade bodies, online-content producers and industry partners. Throughout the course, you are able to access to Canon, Sony, Hasselblad and Phase One camera systems plus a range of industrystandard photographic equipment. You may also use a fully equipped professional studio, which is designed to prepare you for the industry.

Our graduates have gone on to undertake post-graduate training and/or work in a wide range of careers including: fashion, television and media, wedding photography, car advertising, sport/extreme sport, social portraiture, photo retouching, music publishing, E-commerce and education.

All students are offered bespoke training to a professional standard in Capture 1, Adobe Lightroom and the Adobe Creative Suite.

Luke Winn

ALUMNI

Photography graduates have worked with a range of high-profile companies, including: Vogue Ted Baker BBC Sport The Hut Group End Clothing Creative Arts Review Mountain Bike UK

INDUSTRY LINKS

Association of Photographers (AOP) Penguin/Random House Side Gallery, Newcastle BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Phase One Tees Valley Tourism Hartlepool Borough Council

GUEST LECTURERS

Recent guest lecturers have included: Martin Parr Magnum Photos Tom Stoddart Getty Images Yan Preston Photographer Tim Clark 1000 Words Editor Freddy Spencer 20/20 Photography Agent Pippa Oldfield Curator and Writer Mimi Mollica Photojournalist and Documentary Photographer Simon Roberts Photographer and Honorary Fellow, Royal Photographic Society Alison Baskerville Photojournalist Peter Dench World Press Photo Zelda Cheatle Photography Expert Chris Harrison Photographer Tessa Bunny Klompching Gallery, New York Tom Wood International Centre of Photography, New York

SPECIALIST SUBJECTS INCLUDE:

• Digital Photography and Work-flow • Commercial Lighting • Digital Enhancement and Retouching • Genres in a Commercial

Context • Fashion Photography • Advertising and

Product Photography • Advanced Enhancement and Retouching • Final Show and Portfolio

On-stage; on-screen. Pre-production. Production. Post-production.

Scriptwriter, Cinematographer, Editor, Stage Manager, Producer, Director. Sound & Lighting for theatre or film.

16mm film. Studios.

NEW RENAISSANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Yorkshire region (student category) 2020 Best Student Short Film

ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY

Yorkshire region (student category) 2019 Nominated Drama 2018 Winner Best Film - Comedy & Entertainment* 2017 Winner - Craft Award Best Cinematography Comedy & Entertainment*

BA (Hons)

3 Years Full-Time

UCAS Code: W692 UCAS Tariff: 96-112

As a student on this collaborative and practical degree, you will develop the skills for both creative and technical film, television and theatre production. Throughout the three years, you can create screen and theatre productions that showcase your skills and the ability to create new and original content for film and contemporary theatre practice. There are opportunities to specialise in producing, directing, cinematography, scriptwriting, post-production and sound/ lighting in film, television and theatre.

You will use cutting-edge Black Magic 4K camera technology as well as traditional Super 16mm film using Arriflex cameras in dedicated film and theatre studios and performance space. Students have access to industry – standard software such as Premiere Pro and Avid.

At the end of the three year programme, you have a broad showreel of work for your next steps into professional practice.

Working closely with other programmes – including acting, costume, photography, visual effects and production design – students will experience a fully rounded and holistic teaching environment, providing access to a complete and collaborative production process which mirrors the workings the industry.

There is the opportunity on a minimum of ten productions; however, due to the collaborative nature of the programme you may find yourself involved in even more.

You will work for live clients and submit for festivals and competitions throughout the programme, including the 16mm Kodak Commercial Awards, RTS Awards and National Student Drama Festival. In 2018, students worked on a BFI funded feature film Looted (released in November 2020).

In 2019, students worked on Channel 4 ‘Sparks’ and BBC’s Children in Need.

ALUMNI

Former students of the foundation and degree courses include:

Scott Mann

Director & Producer, Final Score, Heist (with Robert De Niro), The Tournament

Tom Marshall

Director Space Force, Famalan, Chewing Gum, Wasted, Four Weddings & a Funeral

Sarah Gledhill

Production Management Assistant Secret Britain, Flog it!

Adam Bouabda

Couch Potato Films Producer & Cinematographer

Actor in Training.

Stage & Screen.

This is your drama school style experience outside of London.

BA (Hons)

3 Years Full-Time

UCAS Code: W410 UCAS Tariff: 96-112

You will develop core acting skills in voice, characterisation and physicality for performances on stage and screen as well as contemporary and innovative practices.

The course is vocational, with a strong focus on the development of your own practice - not only performance but also the ability to create your own portfolio of work.

You will be treated as an ‘Actor in training’ with professional standards expected on all projects; these skills will be developed by working alongside guest lecturers and industry professionals from theatre and film.

You will be encouraged and supported to secure professional opportunities throughout the programme; for example, one of our students has a role in the latest Ken Loach film, alongside work for BBC3.

Although a relatively new programme at the School, this course already has strong links to the industry and opportunities for networking, which could lead to future employment opportunities.

Core acting skills of voice, physicality and characterisation will be covered alongside work on devised and scripted text for both stage and screen; you will take part in two full theatre productions each academic year to showcase the skills gained.

Your skills will be pushed even further during the second year of your studies, where there will be opportunities to explore Classical Theatre, Clowning, and Acting for Media. Your three years of study will culminate in putting together an extensive CV, professional-standard showreel and a solo show at ARC for agents and industry professionals, as well as a full theatre production.

Alongside skill development, you will work collaboratively with other students across a range of degree courses – costume, photography, film, television and theatre production, visual effects – to produce brand new material created by film and theatre scriptwriters. This collaborative approach will enrich your experience on the programme and support you in generating a credible body of work.

The Northern School of Art is also the partner of ‘ARC’, an established north east theatre and arts centre, which provides opportunities for professional training and development for students as well as valuable stage and screen industry links for your career after graduation.

INDUSTRY LINKS

Arc Newcastle Puppetry Festival Fuel Theatre Janet Plater Management Gyre & Gimble Andy Berriman - Film maker Tangled Feet Theatre Northern Stage

GUEST LECTURERS HAVE INCLUDED

Frantic Assembly Tony Jayawardena Actor with RSC, The Crown, The Globe, National Theatre David Kirkbride Actor with National Theatre, Play That Went Wrong, Silent Witness, Sherlock, Crooked House, Lady Macbeth Maria Crocker Director at The National Theatre, Broadway, West End Mee Mee Theatre Alex Jacobs Director, Hollyoaks and Casualty Ishy Din Playwright & Screenwriter Open Clasp Theatre Company Gracefool Collective

Connor Scott on set in short film ‘Nightshift’

Research, design, build.

BA (Hons)

3 Years Full-Time

UCAS Code: W490 UCAS Tariff: 96-112

This course will not only allows you to develop your conceptual design and visualisation skills, which a top design team requires, but will also allow you to gain specialist practical skills such as white card model making, prop making, full scale scenic construction and painting, concept art, storyboarding and character development. It will provide you with a portfolio of skills to work predominantly in the television, film and theatre industries.

Our programme is based within a framework of creative and professional practice. We have more than twenty years’ of experience in developing graduates for the entertainment industries through consultation with our industry partners, who have encouraged the development of practical skills that they need.

You will explore all aspects of this exciting industry, through introductory modules such as ‘Workshop and Studio Practice’, ‘Creative Cultures’, ‘Industry Awareness’ and ‘Visual Communication’, enabling you to practise working collaboratively with other students in all areas of film, television, theatre and performance production. Students have access to a range of technical and specialist materials and equipment – including a wide range of industry-standard workshop machinery, a full-scale construction workshop and, laser-cutting and 3D-print workshops. All supported by a full range of industry-standard software.

You are part of a creative, collaborative community working across the full range of degree programmes to experience the full production process: acting, model making, costume and film, television and theatre production, in our in-house theatre and TV studios.

INDUSTRY LINKS

Royal Opera House BBC

Disney Darlington Hippodrome Theatre Northern Film & Media

Screen Yorkshire

Pinewood Studios

Starz TV

Candle & Bell Productions

Opera North Rough Cut TV Event Prop Hire Hartlepool Museum Services Elysium Theatre Company

Captain’s cabin

In your first term, you work on designing and building sets, characters and props. Often beginning with basics techniques, you will learn the illustrative and design skills to produce concept art, models and technical drawings to realise your ideas. You will also develop practicalworkshop skills to support scenic construction, moulding and casting, scenic painting and sculpting. It is a hands-on course where in your second year of study you will be researching, designing and presenting your ideas while having the opportunity to construct a full-scale set in our specialist build studios. Your work is supported by industry professionals and live assignment work. Finally: you have the opportunity to develop your individual interests through your final major project, dissertation and the development of your industry-ready portfolio.

Alumni Hannah Postlethwaite La Boheme Act II set design

Chinese apothecary set

Joe Littler, 1920’s Railway Carriage Film Set

ALUMNI

Warner Bro UK/Ireland Prop maker and head of sculpture workshop Royal Shakespeare Company Properties Master Star Wars (Disney) Prop Maker Aardman Productions Head Sculptor Alton Towers/Merlin Entertainment Prop Maker Pinewood Creatives Digital Productions Manager Show Canada Montreal Project & Events Manager (CBBC) The Dumping Ground Production Designer BBC Tracey Beaker Production Designer LA Productions: Care Production Designer BBC & Red Productions Waterloo Road Production Designer Mammoth Screen Productions (BBC) Remember Me Properties Buyer Disney & Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships Prop Maker Madame Tussauds Models & Prop Maker

Digital & Practical. Create. Sculpt. Mould. Enhance & Augment.

Making the unpossible a visuality.

BA (Hons)

3 Years Full-Time

UCAS Code: W614 UCAS Tariff: 96-112

BA (Hons) Visual Effects & Model Making is the magical part of our screen and stage facility.

The practical skills you will learn on this course are relevant to a wide range of careers, including film and television prop making, puppet and character development for stop frame animation, animatronics and automata for exhibition, concept models for the games industry, model making and design for theatre, architectural model making, prototyping for industrial designers, interactive exhibition models and photographic props for advertising. Furthermore, digital model making utilising CGI software such as 3ds Max, is often used in animation, Illustration and graphic design.

You will learn not only traditional technical skills, such as sculpting, mould making and model making but also digital skills, including digital scanning and 3D printing with industry-standard software and equipment.

Working alongside complementary programmes, you pick-up where others have left off, enhancing productions through your creativity, for example making a miniature-model establishing shot, digital set extension or augmenting a practical prop with some visual flourishes.

By the end of the three-year course, you will have produced a showreel and portfolio of models composited into VFX sequences and settings.

INDUSTRY LINKS

Our model-making team have worked with a range of clients and are professional freelancers, maintaining strong industry links, including: • Aardman Animation • Industrial Light & Magic • Alpha Star Productions • Eighties Doubt Productions • Sea and Sky Pictures • Tees Valley Screen Social

Northern Film & Media, (BFI ScreenSkills) • Candle and Bell

William Price, Jellyfish Model (highlighting plastic debris)