The NCDT accredited Lighting Design programme will support and guide your development towards a professional career in the lighting industry – preparing you to work on a range of performance types including theatre, musicals, opera, dance, corporate events and concerts.
Lighting design is a creative and collaborative art form that has an important role to play in the making of a performance. The ever-increasing range of projects and technologies available to the lighting designer has created a great demand for lighting specialists, which our highly proficient and ambitious graduates are ideally placed to meet. Good lighting designers are creative and resourceful, and are able to create powerful and meaningful images. They are also able to marry art with technology and the conceptual with the practical, leading to performances that are stimulating and exciting for audiences.
We want you to be passionate about what you do, and to excel in your chosen profession. We want you to be part of a new generation of lighting designers, able to shape the cultural landscape of the 21st Century.
The programme continues to develop its links with lighting practitioners and industry through ongoing collaboration and project work. Recently, the programme has received a donation of intelligent fixtures from Clay Paky, and students have lit the Tower of London and the Stephen Lawrence Centre for Comic Relief Day. Also at the Stephen Lawrence Centre,lighting design students designed and installed pyrotechnics and lighting for the launch of a living memorial in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Our students have won the national competition to design the lighting for exhibits at the National Railway Museum in York.
Students have also been working with their Programme Director, Hansjörg Schmidt, on his lighting designs for two performance projects, Kursk at the Young Vic in London and Under Glass by the Clod Ensemble.
The Programme at a glance
Over three years, you will:
- Be introduced to the fundamentals of lighting design
- Learn to analyse contemporary theatre practice, styles and genres
- Develop the skills to take a design from first idea to finished performance
- Learn to work with a wide range of technologies including moving lights, AutoCAD and WYSIWYG, media servers and show control
- Investigate lighting for dance, musicals, architecture, opera and corporate events
- Create lighting designs for fully realised productions and small-scale experimental work
- Undertake a substantial research project into a lighting subject of your choice
- Have the opportunity for a work placement in the industry or a period of study abroad
- Prepare for entry into your chosen profession.
Duration
3 Years.
Term Start
September, 2010.
Entry Requirements
A-Levels, BTEC or equivalent. All applicants are invited for interview (portfolio required). See Admissions information for more details.
How to Apply
Please apply through UCAS:
Institution code name: Rose
Institution application code: R51
Programme code: W4W2
Career Progression
Graduates have gone on to work as lighting designers, technicians, and programmers for theatre, dance, opera, architecture, concert and corporate events.
NCDT Accredited