Photography Summer School
This summer course is practice-based and emphasises the research and development of a personal project. Over two weeks students will be guided to explore their idea and progress towards a possible outcome, from exhibitions to books or editorial publication.
Through workshops, lectures on contemporary photography, group critiques, research, and introduction to a range of photographic techniques, students will be presented with the critical debates and aesthetic issues within the medium.
They will be shown how to research and develop a project conceptually as well as practically, and how to present and promote to an outside audience. The planned visit to London will be the opportunity to visit exceptional photography exhibitions and discuss where their work fits into contemporary photography practice.
The course is aimed not only at those new to the subject, but also at photographers who want to develop their practice critically and create meaningful visual projects. Students will be asked to come to the course with an idea to develop within any area of photography from photojournalism, fine art, commercial and editorial.
Through the course and final assessment, participants will achieve a deeper understanding of contemporary photography and the possible routes for their practice. The course is designed to help achieve greater direction in the image-making process, in order to build a coherent body of work.
Games Design and Art Summer School
The games industry makes $60bn a year. It is a creative, experimental medium bursting with interesting, weird and challenging ideas and needs more designers, artists and creative thinkers. The Games Design and Art Summer School introduces what games are, what the games industry is and where it could be going, through the process of making games.
On this course, you will have an opportunity to study with a design and computer specialist, learning to create games assets and understand user experience, alongside the coding skills to bring your games to life. We have no expectation of prior coding skills – you will develop these skills and more in order to make and develop your own games, with access to software including Maya, ZBrush, Unity 3D, and Adobe Creative Suite.
The course will consist of a series of masterclasses in games design and production, taking you from putting pencil to paper to finalising your ideas within a game engine. You will learn:
- Character and Environment Design
- Character animation
- NPC Creation and simple game AI
- Programming in C# and game logic
By the end of the course you will have developed the skills to combine all these elements to release your game and enter the world of games design.
