Production Design for Film and Television MA
Facts about this course
| Qualification | MA |
|---|---|
| Duration | Full time: 1 year |
| Attendance | Full time: 3 days per week |
| Assessment | This is mainly through design projects and presentations but also involves written submissions. |
| Course structure | |
Choose Kingston's Production Design for Film and Television MA
If you would like to develop the traditional and technological skills needed for entry into an art department in the film and television industry, this course is ideal. It offers one of the few opportunities internationally to focus on scenic art direction in postgraduate study. The course has been designed to utilise your existing areas of expertise in a related discipline, which can range from Fine Art to Architecture, and add those required for professional practice.
What will you study?
You will develop skills in production design for both a studio environment particular for television, or script-driven drama intended for television or cinema. In the former you will deal with the creation of a purely televisual world, designing built scenic elements and using lighting and technology such as LED screens to create a particular environment.
For drama productions you will learn how to enhance the script through the visual elements, dealing with the architectural structure of the set, the practical lighting, locations, the choice of colour and texture in the form of props and fabrics, as well as the practical management of the process.
This course is taught by staff in the the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Teaching staff include:
- Teresa Lawler, course director
- Buffy Kimm, senior lecturer
- Simon Kimmel, Jonathan Taylor, Malcolm Thornton, John Asbridge and Candida Otton (visiting lecturers)
Production Design can be broadly separated into two types:
- a production that requires a studio environment particular to television; or
- script-driven drama where the output could be intended for either television or the cinema.
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.
Modules
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