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Special Make-up Effects for Film and TV with foundation year BDes (Hons)
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Qualification
Bachelor of Design (with Honours) - BDes (Hon)
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Location
University of Bolton Main Site, Greater Manchester
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP-21
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Duration
4 Years
Course summary
Want to turn movie stars into monsters? Our BDes (Hons) Special Make-up Effects for Film and TV with foundation year course focuses on helping you develop specialist skills and creative know-how. We offer fantastic facilities and industry-experienced staff dedicated to preparing you for a career in this ground-breaking creative industry. From superheroes to sci-fi, and horror to history, many TV shows and movies need special effects make-up to enhance their on-screen storytelling. Actors can be utterly transformed into aliens, zombies, pirates and vampires, while more subtle make-up effects convince us of injuries, scars, tattoos or wrinkles. All these special effects are created by dedicated and highly-skilled make-up artists and our BDes (Hons) Special Make-up Effects for Film and TV with foundation year course focuses on preparing you for a career creating these illusions.The foundation year is the first year of this degree, offering an excellent grounding in the fundamentals of art and design practice. We’ll support you to develop skills in fine art and concepting, and working in 2D and 3D using different media and materials. It is designed to equip you for degree-level study.With this preparation, you’ll be ready to begin our intensely practical education in special effects make-up. We’ll lead you in an exploration of prosthetics and changing physical appearances, including aspects such as life-casting, clay sculpting, creating silicone masks, applying prosthetics, adding hair and colouring techniques. We’ll encourage you to experiment with materials, tools and techniques, and discover how prosthetics and make-up can combine with 3D computer graphics to create even more spectacular on-screen transformations.
Application deadline
15 January
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QUALIFICATION TYPE
UCAS Points : 48
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.
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