BA (Hons) Live Visual Design and Production - Full-time

University of Bolton

Bachelor's degree

In Bolton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bolton

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Our BA (Hons) Live Visual Design and Production degree is designed to give you the opportunity to be successful in a competitive market place. It’s been created to meet increasing demands for multi-skilled visual professionals in the live events and creative industries. It’s the first degree in the UK that prepares you for a career in the integrated visual production industry working on film, television, concerts, theatre and artistic installations.

This course is a partnership between the University of Bolton and Backstage Academy based in Wakefield. It offers you the chance to learn the skills required to bring together original visual art content (for instance, animation, film or digital imagery) and cutting edge digital show technology to enhance live events and art forms.

Designed to address the current and future needs of this exciting and fast-moving industry, this course aims to prepare you to take a project through from concept and design to delivery on site in a variety of settings, including festivals, shows, stadium tours and art installations.

Our highly qualified and experienced programme staff will support you to draw upon skills taught in traditional subjects such as design, art, photography, content design, event management, multimedia, physics, graphics and lighting design, and learn to combine them in innovative and visually thrilling ways.

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Location

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Bolton (Greater Manchester)
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Deane Road, BL3 5AB

Start date

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About this course

Live visual design and production is a new approach to the design and creation of spectacular events that give audiences a truly memorable experience. It integrates lighting, set design and video with other visual effects such as lasers and pyrotechnics. Previously events employed lighting designers, video designers and set designers as separate roles, but increasingly these roles are merging together as video walls create the set, lighting enhances the video content and performances are synchronised with spectacular special effects.

Our BA (Hons) Live Visual Design and Production degree aims to teach you the skills and knowledge needed to seamlessly combine original visual art content and cutting edge digital show technology to enhance live music, product launches, celebrations and architectural installations, amongst many other art forms and events. This is a growing market with today’s live events becoming ever more visual, artistic and complex as advances in new technology create fresh possibilities within lighting and video.

Fashion design
Visual merchandising
Events management
Community Arts
Advertising
Teaching and education
Arts management
Technical theatre
Technical sales and support
TV and film
Tour management
Safety enforcement
Costume design
Theatre design
Journalism
Camera operative
Telecommunications

Any subjects are acceptable at Level 3. You should also have five GCSEs at grade C or above or grade 4 to 9 (or equivalent) including English and Mathematics.

You’ll be required to attend an interview and take a diagnostic assessment part of the application process. You may also be asked to provide a portfolio of creative work.

Key Features:
This course has been specifically designed in partnership with organisations operating in the visual production industry so you’ll be learning the skills and knowledge demanded by employers in this exciting global sector.
Resources at Backstage Academy allow you to gain first-hand experience of a live working environment with access to the latest computing systems, software and technology.
As an Off Campus student you also receive the support of a dedicated Off Campus team and resources, to help make you truly feel part of the University.
Students have access to University e-learning resources, an extensive e-library and the support of University librarians.
You’ll have the chance to graduate with the ability to produce impressive lighting and video visuals using the latest techniques, making you highly employable for a career in live visual design and production.
We’ll support you to acquire skills that are transferable across a range of industries – from live music, theatre and opera, to film and TV, and architectural installations – enhancing your lifelong career prospects.

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Production
  • Art
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Full Time
  • Visual Production
  • Production Industry
  • Techniques
  • Concept Design
  • Workflows
  • Toolbox Basic

Course programme

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

  • Professional Skills for the Visual Production Industry
  • Visual Production Toolbox Basic Techniques
  • Creative Workflows and Concept Design
  • Experiential Design
  • Experiential Technologies - Hardware
  • Showtime Production Basics
  • Industry Placement
  • Visual Production Toolbox - Advanced
  • Creative Research
  • Show Technologies Integration & Design
  • Contemporary Issues for Visual Production
  • Visual Production - Design
  • Experiential System Design
  • Showtime Applied Project Management
  • Work Related Project
  • Major Project
Teaching, Learning And Assessment

As well as traditional lectures, seminars, examinations and tutorials your learning will be enhanced with visits and guest speakers, including master class seminars provided by industry professionals. You’ll also consider international case studies, attend workshops and be given opportunities to work on live projects as part of both practical and work placement modules. The course offers unique insights and a thorough understanding of the visual production industry operating in international markets and in a range of sectors.

Assessment will use a range of methods, from developing portfolios of your work and skills to practical assessments and research projects. Assessment is designed to ensure you have every opportunity to achieve the aims and objectives of the programme, and both individual and group assessments are used at each level.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

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