School of Media

HIGH DEFINITION – HIGH EXPECTATIONS SYMPOSIUM AND DIGITAL CONVERGENCE SYMPOSIUM THURSDAY 11TH MAY 2006

SCHOOL OF MEDIA

The School of Media at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth has a range of courses dedicated to giving students both the theoretical and the practical skills needed to succeed in their chosen industries. The wealth of talent we have at the Institute is reflected in the awards we have won, and the internationally renowned graduates we have produced, who have gone on to achieve exceptional success within their chosen industries. They include:

  • Simon Beaufoy, the writer, producer and director who graduated from the Institute in 1992. He won five international film festival awards with his student production ‘Release Me’, before coming to prominence when he wrote the script for ‘The Full Monty’.
  • Suri Krishnamma, the writer and director, whose student film won him a nomination for the Best Short Film at the BAFTA’s in 1987. He has directed many film and TV productions including ‘A Man of No Importance’ and the 2003 version of ‘Wuthering Heights’.
  • Sara Sugarman, the director of notable British and American films such as ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ and ‘Mad Cows’.
  • Steve Aplin, the animator and modelmaker, who has worked on a number of prominent films including the ‘Star Wars Trilogy’, ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’.

Some of the awards that students from our media courses have won include:

  • 15 Kodak Awards in recent years
  • Royal Television Society Awards
  • BAFTA Nominations
  • International Student Film Festival Awards

In 2005, Bournemouthwas designated a Skillset Screen Academy Centre of Excellence in conjunction with BournemouthUniversityMediaSchool. The Screen Academy network is endorsed by the UK film industry as providing the best education and skills development for the future workforce at a further, higher and postgraduate level. Prior to that, we were awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our outstanding work in the fields of film, television and animation.

Our range of media courses include:

BA (Hons) Film Production:Lights, Camera, Action! This production-based course aims to generate highly skilled film graduates who will pursue key creative and business-related careers in the mainstream sectors of the British and International Film industries. The reputation of the course speaks volumes: in 2005, the course was recognised by Skillset and the UK Film Council as a key component of the Bournemouth Screen Academy. Prior to that, it was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize in recognition of its exceptional work and achievement of the highest standards.

BA (Hons) Graphic Design:This stimulating course offers a unique opportunity for students to learn about and explore Graphic Design both as a means of communication and a method of self expression. It aims to foster confident and informed designers who are able to make decisions in complex and unpredictable contexts, and who react quickly to new information, changes in situations and advances in technology. Students from this course have done very well in national design competitions and awards such as the Design &Art Direction (D&AD) Awards, International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and Young Creatives Network (YCN)

BA (Hons) Animation Production:This highly acclaimed, practical and stimulating course offers students a thorough experience in which they will develop a comprehensive understanding of the full production process. The course continues to reach the highest standards and has international industry recognition; it has received numerous prestigious awards and students’ work is screened each year at animation festivals in the UK, China, Japan, Europe and the Americas. Students’ work is of exceptional standards and recent employers of our graduates include Industrial Light and Magic, Dreamworks, Electronic Arts and Aardman Animation.

BA (Hons) Photography: This is a creative, exciting and challenging degree course, which promotes photography in a contemporary context and offers image-making possibilities over a broad range of practices, promoting the opportunity to explore the boundaries between fine art and commercial photography. We encourage students to bring their own experiences, interests and aspirations to the course, and individual creativity is encouraged and supported. Our students attain a high level of success in a broad range of creative industry careers, including fashion and commercial photographer, photo-journalists, photographic artists, curators, teachers and film and video makers.

BA (Hons) Acting for Theatre, Film and Television: This course provides students with the confidence, skills, expertise and theoretical knowledge to enable them to work in this profession. It is a highly practical and demanding course, which concentrates on the exploration of realism in acting for theatre, film and television and non-realistic forms becoming more demanding. Supported by an Industry Liaison Group, students on this course work with students from the film course, putting their real acting abilities to the test. There are a number of textually demanding productions required of the students, with the aim of providing acting challenges similar to those faced by actors in the profession.

FDA Interactive Media: This course is closely linked to industry, and teaching is through live projects and placements. Students learn about up and coming developments, basing projects on new technologies using a combination of practical skills, conceptual thought and commercial awareness; producing creative and practical solutions to real and complex problems. Students look at areas such as streaming to mobile phones and small hand held devices or PCs, considering the design and interfaces as well as the products themselves. Students are able to respond to changing technologies while simultaneously developing them.             

FdA Commercial Photography:This degree offers a focused course for creative thinkers who have the goal of becoming successful professional photographers and who want to push the boundaries of this industry. Students learn a range of fundamental photographic and image making technical processes, including digital imaging, theoretical concepts and historical aspects of photography. They undertake a range of project work, all theme based, relevant to contemporary commercial practice and take part in a work placement to gain relevant practical experience. Students from the Institute have won a number of awards including the Fuji Awards for Fashion Photography, the Independent Magazine Fashion Awards and the Metro Imaging Awards.

 

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