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The NCDT accredited Scenic Arts programme is designed to equip graduates with a range of theatre craft skills including prop making, scenery building and scenic painting. You will emerge from the programme with a forward-looking professional knowledge of the technical arts that support all types of performance, based on traditional experience and practice as well as modern materials and emerging technologies. Your skills will enable you to pursue a rewarding career in performance and media industries including theatre, film, television and live events.

During the programme, your base will be the Masefield Workshop, which boasts 230sq. metres of construction space for wood and metal work and includes a paint frame, specialist fibreglass and plaster room, two props workshops and AutoCAD facilities. You will be taught by professional staff with wide-ranging experience in the industry and you will have the opportunity to collaborate with students studying other production disciplines to create fully mounted performances. Activities range from building and painting scenery and making props for the College’s productions to individual projects that include stage engineering and complex manufacturing techniques in prop making and scenic painting.

The Programme at a glance

Over three years, you will:

• Be introduced to workshop practice including health and safety
• Gain a foundation of basic skills, techniques and methods in the making of props, the construction of scenery, technical drawing and scenic painting
• Learn to analyse contemporary theatre practice, styles and genres
• Learn about the working of other technical departments
• Develop skills in modelling and casting using complex manufacturing techniques, and computer drawing (AutoCAD)
• Be assigned a variety of roles on College productions as a set builder, prop maker, scenic painter, workshop supervisor and project manager
• Undertake a substantial research project into a Scenic Arts 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: W4W7

Career Progression

Graduates have gone on to work as freelance scenic painters, prop makers and carpenters, as well as working for scenery construction companies and service providers, for theatre, film, television, entertainment and corporate events, dance and opera.

NCDT Accredited