Make Up With Special Effects for the Creative Industries BA (Hons)
Bradford College
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Our exciting and creative course is multi-disciplinary in that students learn a variety of specialist practical and academic skills appropriate for various industry sectors and specialisms.The focus is upon your development of appropriate practical, technical, creative and intellectual skills. The course will develop your knowledge and understanding, enabling experimentation and innovation and the formulation of visual and verbal strategies to generate and communicate ideas. We also foster ...Read more

Our exciting and creative course is multi-disciplinary in that students learn a variety of specialist practical and academic skills appropriate for various industry sectors and specialisms.The focus is upon your development of appropriate practical, technical, creative and intellectual skills. The course will develop your knowledge and understanding, enabling experimentation and innovation and the formulation of visual and verbal strategies to generate and communicate ideas. We also foster creative, critical and reflective thinking and understanding, the ability to interrelate theory and practice through appropriate research strategies. This involves the understanding and evaluation of the different specialist contexts of makeup artistry in which you operate such as; film, television, theatre, editorial, commercial, or fashion.Ultimately you will learn and acquire a range of transferable skills, self-awareness and self-confidence, enabling the realisation of your individual potential, personal, social and professional development and strategies for professional practice and lifelong learning. These skills will help you to become employable makeup / special effects / prosthetics artists.As well as gaining a thorough understanding of this wide and exciting industry, you will learn practical skills to support your entry into all of these areas.Skills include:- Contextual Makeup application (for differing genres)- Hair styling and setting- Postiche and wig work – how to do hand knotting, apply/safe removal of a hair piece- Colour theory- Historical / period makeup and hair styling- Special effects makeup, i.e. casualty simulation, character, trauma- Small scale prosthetics; bald caps, 3-d transfers, flat moulds- Body casting; moulding, sculpting and colouration- Body painting and creative techniques- Design development process; research, face charts- Communication of ideas

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Drama
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 75 = 25% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
25%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
95%
Average salary
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Drama graduate salary at this uni
£16,500
UK Drama graduate salary
£18,000

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Entry requirements

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A level

A level:

CCD Grades / Points required

Scottish Higher:

CD Grades / Points required

UCAS Tariff:

80 Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

GCSE/National 4/National 5:

Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

MMP Grades / Points required

Preferably including an Arts or Media subject.

Preferably including an Arts or Media subject.

Three A levels or BTEC Extended Diploma usually in an Arts or Media subject, or Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design and Art, Design & Media).

Award of a full Access Certificate (Art & Design) by a licensed Access Validating Agency.

GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C/4 minimum.Level 2 qualifications in Literacy and Numeracy accepted as equivalent.

Preferably in an Arts or Media subject.

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England

£9,000 per year

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£9,000 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,000 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,000 per year

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Bradford College
Great Horton Road Bradford BD7 1AY United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Frizinghall  1.2 miles away
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