Bachelor's degree

In Sidcup

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Sidcup

  • Duration

    3 Years

provide the opportunity for students to acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to equip them for study to Honours Degree level. promote the development of intellectual and imaginative abilities enabling students to identify, challenge and explore new concepts and competencies. provide a programme of study directly related to the production of costumes and accessories and the vocational demands of the theatre and related professions.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Sidcup (Kent)
Rose Bruford College, Lamorbey Park, Burnt Oak Lane, DA15 9DF

Start date

On request

About this course

A-Levels, BTEC or equivalent. All applicants are invited for interview (portfolio required).

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Course programme

BA (Hons) Lighting Design

Mode: full-time

The NCDT accredited Lighting Design programme will support and guide your development towards a professional career in the lighting industry – preparing you to work on a range of performance types including theatre, musicals, opera, dance, corporate events and concerts.

Lighting design is a creative and collaborative art form that has an important role to play in the making of a performance. The ever-increasing range of projects and technologies available to the lighting designer has created a great demand for lighting specialists, which our highly proficient and ambitious graduates are ideally placed to meet. Good lighting designers are creative and resourceful, and are able to create powerful and meaningful images. They are also able to marry art with technology and the conceptual with the practical, leading to performances that are stimulating and exciting for audiences.

We want you to be passionate about what you do, and to excel in your chosen profession. We want you to be part of a new generation of lighting designers, able to shape the cultural landscape of the 21st Century.

The programme continues to develop its links with lighting practitioners and industry through ongoing collaboration and project work. Recently, the programme has received a donation of intelligent fixtures from Clay Paky, and students have lit the Tower of London and the Stephen Lawrence Centre for Comic Relief Day. Also at the Stephen Lawrence Centre,lighting design students designed and installed pyrotechnics and lighting for the launch of a living memorial in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Our students have won the national competition to design the lighting for exhibits at the National Railway Museum in York.

Students have also been working with their Programme Director, Hansjörg Schmidt, on his lighting designs for two performance projects, Kursk at the Young Vic in London and Under Glass by the Clod Ensemble.

The programme aims to:

  • provide the opportunity for students to acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to equip them for study to Honours Degree level
  • promote the development of intellectual and imaginative abilities enabling students to identify, challenge and explore new concepts and competencies
  • provide a programme of study directly related to the production of costumes and accessories and the vocational demands of the theatre and related professions
  • progressively develop the manufacturing skills of the students to meet professional standards in a broad range of specialist costume activities and to enable students to meet their artistic goals
  • develop a critical awareness of the wide ranging types and style of theatrical production in the United Kingdom and Europe
  • develop the student's ability to contribute to performance as a creative, scenically articulate, free thinking designer
  • introduce students to a range of research and practice methodologies
  • enable students to develop a range of analytic, critical and communicative skills in order to become articulate and reflective theatre practitioners
  • promote an awareness and understanding of theatre as an interdisciplinary art form
  • empower students to collaborate effectively within a group and with other theatre practitioners
  • foster independent learning and a range of transferable study skills
  • equip the students with an understanding and training that will enable them to make worthwhile contributions to current professional practice and to the development of theatre in the United Kingdom and Europe

Career Progression

Graduates have gone on to work as lighting designers, technicians, and programmers for theatre, dance, opera, architecture, concert and corporate events.

NCDT Accredited

Lighting Design

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