Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College

Film and Video - BA Honours Degree

Our longstanding programme, which is accredited by the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society, gives you a broad grounding in film and video practice. It is o­ne of few in the UK offering 16mm production. It places particular emphasis o­n film as a social practice and the study of issue-based work is a dominant theme. Theoretical work underpins the critical practice throughout the programme.

You work in groups o­n the production of short fiction and documentary films and videos, although there are also opportunities to undertake independent projects. In stages two and three you are able to focus o­n specialist areas, including directing, producing, scriptwriting, lighting/camera, sound, editing and art direction. Throughout the programme we promote close links with industry, and our students' work is exhibited worldwide in festivals and o­n television.

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Animation - BA Honours Degree

Animation is o­ne of the most significant and rapidly expanding areas of the current media field. It brings together both traditional techniques – such as storytelling, drawing and construction – and aspects of new technology, interactive media and electronic imaging. Our animation programme is producing graduates that are leaders in the field, with o­ne winning a BAFTA award for Best Short Animation and two others receiving Oscars.

The aim of our programme is to look at all the areas of animation in a contemporary way, which encourages flexibility and resourcefulness. It gives you a firm foundation in technique and intellectual study. We maintain links with industry through regular guest lecturers and project work with outside bodies, as well as visits to animation festivals and special events. Our programme emphasises motivation, commitment and a strong desire to communicate and work with others. You have the opportunity to work in teams or follow individual assignments, and to shape your work to your own needs and the requirements of the industry.

Graphic Design: New Media - BA Honours Degree

Our programme is designed to meet the growing industry need for visually and technically literate designers. It provides you with the skills to research, create and manipulate visual materials for an increasingly diverse communication field. Specialising in design solutions through, and not simply as a result of, digital technology, the programme explores the revolution in digital and cable television, telecommunications, the expansion of websites, interface design, animation, illustration, advertising, new magazine titles, promotional videos, motion graphics and cross-platform technology.

The programme continually revisits industry's needs and develops the appropriate skills of research, analysis and investigation, to enable you to progress to employment or postgraduate study. As a graduate, you will find employment in media and design outlets, where there is an endless demand for communication that utilises and manipulates text, image and time-based design.

Digital Screen Arts - BA Honours Degree

Our Digital Screen Arts programme enables you to explore the relationship between the visual arts and technology and ultimately helps you to establish a career as a contemporary digital artist and media professional.

Our programme encourages you to be imaginative and innovative, and to think in radically different ways in your approach to new media. The programme is designed to encompass the dramatic shift that has taken place in contemporary culture and provides a range of skills that are relevant to broadcast, installation art, the Internet, DVD movies and interactive CDs. You are encouraged to develop a multi-skilled approach and an understanding of the critical and cultural context of new media.

Options are available in video production, still imaging, 3D modelling, animation, internet authoring and CD/DVD interactive design. Our programme has close links with national and international contemporary artists, filmmakers, photographers, media professionals and arts organisations. The programme also promotes links with BA (Hons) Fine Art.

Faculty of Arts & Media

The Faculty offers project-based MA provision in four subject areas: Animation, Film & Video, Fine Art and Photography. The programmes are supported by the subject expertise of specific staff members with specialist practice-based and theoretical research interests. The Faculty is also home to the Animation Research Centre, which is involved in research within animation and experimental media. For further information about any of the programmes described below please contact Susie Oldroyd in the Faculty of Arts & Media.

Ma Film and Video

The MA in Film & Video builds upon the strengths of the undergraduate programmes in Film and Video and Time Based New Media. The team has particular strengths in supporting issue-based documentary and short, fictional moving image work.

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MA in Animation

The MA in Animation has particular strengths for supporting work in the following areas:

• Narrative/non-narrative practices
• Animated documentary
• Interdisciplinary approaches to the animated form
• Digital/new media theory

Underpinning the study of all of these aspects is close attention to the exploration of different modes of meaning construction within the animated film. Experimentation with the formal strategies of traditional and non-traditional animated fiction and with modes of non-fiction animation is both expected and encouraged.

There is no limitation o­n the kind of animation techniques (i.e. 2D, 3D, computer, mixed-media, etc) the student may employ in pursuit of a practice-based project of study. However, the student should already possess a high degree of practical ability and technical competence relevant to the study of animation in general, and to their proposed project area in particular.

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MA Graphic Design & New Media

The Graphic Design & New Media programme offers an opportunity for postgraduate study in both the established and more recently expanding fields of communication design. Central to the programme's philosophy is the desire to conduct substantive critical inquiry into the changing demands created by new models of communicating and new technologies. The programmes's philosophy is based o­n engendering a critical investigation into how graphical communication informs, instructs, persuades and entertains.

The following aspects of study are offered:

• Creative Illustration
• Communication theory and practice
• Representation and meaning in design and media practice
• Typography and editorial design
• Multi-media and the televisual
• Sequential imaging, corporate and promotional design
• Inter-active and time-based design
• Contemporary design in print and screen

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The Surrey Institute of Art & Design,
University College,
Farnham Campus,
Falkner Road,
Farnham,
Surrey,
GU9 7DS, UK
Tel: +44(0)1252 722441
Fax: +44(0)1252 892616 

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