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 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
A-Levels, BTEC or equivalent. All applicants are invited for interview (portfolio required).
For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk