Film Design and 3D Visual Effects MA

Facts about this course

Qualification	MA
Duration	Full time: 1 year
Attendance	Full time: 3 days per week
Assessment	Assessment is mainly through design projects and presentations but also involves written submissions.
Course structure Please note that this course was previously known as Digital Set Design MA

Choose Kingston's Film Design and 3D Visual Effects MA

Increasingly what you see on the TV screen or at the cinema is not real – many elements are produced digitally using a computer as the main creative tool. The MA Film Design and 3D Visual Effects deals with the design of computer-generated environments for film and television drama productions.

Linked directly to our long running MA Production Design for Film and TV, this new course connects the physically built environment with the area traditionally seen as post-production. You will look at computer-generated sets as both independent pre-visualisation tools and as an integral part of the production design/post-production process.

What will you study?

You will develop skills through a series of projects of increasing complexity, but will initially be guided through the necessary software packages in the first semester. Taught modules include period/sci fi design and design for contemporary drama. In addition to dealing with the digital arena, they include workshops on important skills such as storyboarding.

We will arrange industry visits where possible and can range from Shepperton and Pinewood studios to Soho-based post-production houses.

Course structure

This programme combines a progressively more complex and related sequence of modules, with each weighted according to the length and demands of study. Credit points are given for the satisfactory completion of a module and are separate from an assessment mark or comment for the same work.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.