Creative Media Practice (Animation and Visual Effects) - Level 3 National Extended Diploma
Start Date: 4th September 2023
Code: PFFC02078
Essentials
Duration: 2 Years Full-time
Start date: 4th September 2023
End date: 6th June 2025
Information event: Y
Course fee: FREE (See eligibility criteria)
Course Content
Animation is a rapidly-expanding sector in Ireland North and South, with companies selling home-grown programmes all over the world, particularly for the children's market. The related area of visual and special effects for TV & Film is also expanding. Drawing on our expertise in TV and Interactive Media, we are now offering students an exciting new course, where they will specialise in Animation Production, Character Creation and Modelling, Comics and Graphic Novels, Visual and Special Effects, and Digital, 2D, 3D and Stop-Go techniques. Could you create the next Postman Pat, Spongebob or Danger Mouse?
Students will study:
- how to animate action and figures
- how to design characters
- how to create stories
- how to use a range of 2D and 3D software
- freehand drawing and set design skills
- how to build props
- how to create special effects
- how to create stop-go and how to research, produce and pitch ideas.
Become an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP)
During their time at the college, all Level 3 full-time Media students will also study towards the industry recognised Adobe Certified Accreditation. Adobe products; including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign, Animate, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro, are essential software applications used daily within the Creative Industry. Upon successful completion of the two-year programme at Northern Regional College, media students can graduate with a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Practice AND become an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP). This is a fantastic opportunity for everyone seeking progression to higher education or employment within this exciting and ever-developing industry.
Course Aims
For students to develop creatively and entrepreneurially to the point where they can either enter the Animation employment market directly or apply to a specialist university course.
Special Features
Professional animators and media workers lecturing on the course, with specialist software and good industrial links.
Assessment Methods
Mostly internal assessment, with two modules assessed externally.
Course Update
Please note that due to ongoing major campus construction projects courses at Ballymena, Coleraine and Ballymoney may be relocated to alternative suitable locations as required.
Applicants should have at least 4 GCSEs at Grades C or above plus demonstrable interest in Animation
In circumstances where there are more applications for the course than there are places available, the College reserves the right to select candidates from those achieving the highest grades.
Students will be able to explore the local employment market when they achieve this qualification, and / or progress to university in Northern Ireland or beyond.
Coleraine
BT52 1HJ
028 7035 4717
Contact
Peter McMullan Send Email
This course is also available in other NRC campuses.
Essential Skills
All full-time students at the Northern Regional College have the opportunity to improve their English, Maths and IT skills and gain qualifications. The qualification you take will depend on the qualification you already have. If you do not have a grade C or above in GCSE English, Maths or ICT, you MUST do Essential Skills. This will form a compulsory part of your timetable.
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