BA (Hons) Costume with Performance Design

Costume with Performance Design 2011

Photo: Martin Coyne. Designers: L Davis, L Fisher, L Sargent, D Turner

 

COURSE OVERVIEW

You’ll discover how to create whole new worlds on this exciting and creative course. You’ll design and make costumes and sets for shows, films, plays and new performance disciplines.

This is a diverse and demanding subject - you need to be interested in art, design and all types of performance. As well as technical skill, you’ll realise great design depends on your ability to interpret ideas and we place a real emphasis on conceptual work.

You’ll work alongside students from the film, make-up, and acting courses on stage and film productions. While your eventual career may not be in both design and making, we believe that understanding the overall production process is what sets our students apart and gives them an edge.

 

RESOURCES

· Staff members have a range of industry backgrounds with diverse, specialist expertise.

· Visiting tutors and industry professionals bring real–life experiences to give a broader awareness of the performance industries.

· The creative industries work on a very high energy level and we recreate that in our exclusive studio space.

· All 3 years work in the same space. There might be a director on one side working on a script workshop and tailors and cutters creating complex costumes and patterns on the other.

 

YEAR 1

Year 1 gives you the technical and research skills to take charge of your own learning and explore the subject areas that interest you. You will learn both design and making skills before making a specialist pathway choice at the end of the year.

 

YEAR 2

Year 2 is all about learning advanced technical skills within your chosen specialism.

· You’ll test the boundaries of design and making through the study of complex and challenging themes.

· You’ll have the opportunity to experience the industry through a work placement.

· You’ll start to refine your ideas of the work you want to do and formulate your career plans.

 

YEAR 3

In Year 3 you’ll continue to expand your portfolio of skills and have the opportunity to work on film and theatre projects.

Our aim is to produce graduates with an excellent range of theoretical knowledge, practical experience and a truly industry-relevant, professional CV.

 

Costume with Performance Design 2011

Su Wan: Runner Up, WOW Awards, New Zealand

 

INTERVIEWS AND PORTFOLIOS
Interviews are an opportunity for you to demonstrate to us your self-motivation and commitment to your area of study. Prospective students will also need to have good life drawing skills. Students entering the course are often recommended to possess a Foundation Diploma in addition to their A-Level grades; this is because the course requires a degree of skill, technical knowledge and conceptual understanding that cannot always be demonstrated through A-Level study alone.

 

WHAT WE LOOK FOR
First and foremost we look for a passion for the performance industries. You will have to be very hardworking, committed to this subject, really want to study costume and performance design and want to study it here, at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. As well as good drawing skills, you should be able to show an understanding of costume and set within the context of theatre and film, and you should be an avid theatre and cinema–goer with a strong sense of your own creativity and confidence.

 

STUDY TIME

Study is divided across taught hours, studio and/or work environment time, and independent study. Excellent professional and technical support is available and students are encouraged to experiment and work collaboratively on self-initiated projects. We expect students to spend an average of 40 hours per week on their studies, although it is likely that these hours will vary throughout the academic year.

 

A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS COURSE
More student work, together with a look at our studios, recent projects, exhibitions, industry links and details of our course staff, can all be viewed in the ‘Showcase’ for this course. 

 

COURSE LEADER

Rebecca Pride

CONTACT

Admissions

Tel: 01202 363228/363225

Email: admissions@aucb.ac.uk

 

Costume with Performance Design 2011

Mel Woolven: Finalist, The Patterns of Fashion Award, The Costume Society