HIGHER EDUCATION TASTER DAYS
Taster days provide a fantastic opportunity for Sixth Form students to gain inspiration and experience within a higher education setting. With access to stateoftheart facilities these handson, practical and FREE workshops will enable students to find out more about creative degrees. To ensure students receive individual advice and support places on these workshops are strictly limited. All courses are aimed at Sixth Form students and take place on campus at Norwich University College of the Arts in the City Centre.
WEDNESDAY 29 FEBRUARY 9.30am 16.00pm ∙ DIGITAL TEXTILES WORKSHOP Explore a digital approach to Textiles through creating your own repeating design with access to NUCA’s industry standard software. Your pattern will then be printed on fabric to take away with you as a sample of your digital design work.
∙ GAMES ART & DESIGN Love gaming? Love design? Then this is an opportunity you can’t miss a creative workshop which will cover the fundamentals of designing digital games. The workshop will look at how to get started and test out your ideas for a game. There will also be an introduction to easy to access software packages that can support game development and help bring your game to life.
∙ STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY Using highend digital cameras you will be shown how to create quality studio portraits using Medium Format digital cameras and studio flash lighting. With guidance you will use Photoshop to edit and manipulate your images before printing them to take away with you.
WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 9.30am 16.00pm ∙ ANIMATION Working collaboratively you will produce a short animated film to take away with you at the end of the day. Using industry standard processes this workshop will cover all the steps from preproduction through to a final animated piece. There has been a phenomenal growth in the use of animated content in recent years for television, films, commercials, websites and computer games. This workshop will include information about career opportunities for qualified animators.
∙ ARCHITECTURE Artist’s processes are essential in the making of great architecture. Starting with a creative drawing exercise you will walk through the city and reveal hidden architecture. Working with the BA Architecture Course Leader in the studio you will convert your drawings into a 3D model of the street.
∙ FINE ART – EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING Why is drawing so essential in the digital age? This explorative and fun session will help you make the connection between the act of drawing and many creative processes that help build the contemporary environment. You’ll use handeye coordination, markmaking, the illusion of space in perspective and the dynamics of composition, then as a small group you will have the chance to review and reflect on the experience and your work.
∙ GRAPHICS – DESIGN YOUR OWN TYPEFACE At the end of this creative workshop students will have designed their own unique ‘modular typeface’ to take away with them. The session will explore the history of typeface/font design and give students the chance to apply this learning to their own designs. The workshop will encourage originality and an understanding of key design principles as students work with BA Graphic Design tutors to express themselves through the creation of a completely new typeface.
∙ INTRODUCTION TO FASHION. The Fashion industry is wonderfully innovative, exciting and visual. During this handson masterclass you will have the opportunity to explore experimental and conceptual design. Through the creative process you will gain an understanding of the body as a 3dimensional object in relation to Fashion. Using ½ scale mannequins, you will drape and manipulate spot and cross paper, card, Vilene and calico to construct sculptural and creative silhouettes on the 3D forms. You will record your personal design development and process by either drawing and/or photography. At the end of the
session in a group critique you will have the chance to discuss and analyse your final 3D prototypes.
∙ INTRODUCTION TO ILLUSTRATION – MAKE AND ILLUSTRATE YOUR OWN BOOK All participants will make and then illustrate their own miniature book to take away at the end of the day. Working with tutors on BA illustration participants will learn about simple ways to bind their own books. The day will begin with an introduction to book illustration before moving on to a creative session in which participants will get a lot of support and feedback from the tutors about practical ways to develop their illustration work.
∙ SHORT FILM CHALLENGE DATE TO BE CONFIRMED – REGISTER INTEREST Fancy making a film? Working with students on BA Film and Moving Image Production you will get the chance to produce your own short film. The workshop will cover all the steps from initial idea, script, storyboarding to basic incamera production. You’ll have guidance in using HD cameras and the chance to find out more about studying Film Production at university level.
∙ TEXTILES – WEAVE This session will introduce you to the process of weaving on a table loom. Using different materials and fabrics you will work experimentally on the table loom to realise your creative ideas. You will have the chance to try out different approaches to weaving and by the end of the day you will have a finished piece to take away.
Please either see Guy or email him at g1parkinson@ccn.ac.uk to register your interest. Please state the exact course you are interested in.