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Our Illustration Foundation course, based at Sussex Coast College Hastings, will provide you with an understanding of the function and scope of illustration. You will have the opportunity to approach the discipline in a way that is individual, questioning and innovative. Cultural and critical theory provides a basis for subject practice. Business awareness and vocational skills are raised through work-related learning and links with employers.
Areas of study

You will explore how meaning is conveyed through all visual images. The use of media is wide ranging with the opportunity to specialise in year 2 in printmaking, type and image, digital technology, animation, book arts, and mixed media. For the most part, it is drawing in all its forms that will inform your experience on this course. It is the wide-ranging nature of the experience offered, together with an emphasis on the understanding of the critical and contextual dimensions of illustration, which will challenge you to develop your own personal style and working method. This, together with a strong emphasis on professional practice, will provide you with a sound basis on which you can draw throughout your career and in response to ever-changing professional environments.

You will have access to research and information resources at the University of Brighton.
Syllabus

Year 1
Drawing
Ideas Generation and Development
Graphic Narration
Animation
Specialist Practice
Personal and Professional Development
Culture, Context and Meaning

Year 2
Concepts and Ideologies into Practice
Specialist Pathway
Presentation project
Professional Practice
Culture, Context and Meaning

Career and progression opportunities

Opportunities for illustrators are generally on a freelance basis whether within editorial, book publishing or advertising. In addition, illustrators may exhibit their artwork and develop a range of creative ideas and applications from which they develop their own markets. Students have successfully undertaken work placements at Coley Porter Bell, London; understudied leading illustrators within the work place in Hastings and Brighton; organised an illustration event entitled Alternative Fashion using paper clothing; and produced window displays for environmentally focused shops in Hastings as well as an exhibition at the Rye Gallery.

Name:Photography and Film
Award:BA/BA (Hons)
Study Mode:Full-Time
Napier Code:U54106
UCAS:W600

If you have an interest in reflecting life through a lens, and would like to explore the possibilities offered by both film and photography, this course is the perfect solution. Unique in that it allows you to study both disciplines in tandem, the course allows you to focus on the techniques and management of all aspects of lens-based media, including technical processes, production and analysis. You’ll then take up your specialisation in your third year, and develop the confidence to research and present creative ideas in your chosen medium through practical project work.
Skills

Whether you eventually choose photography or film, you’ll graduate with a comprehensive grounding in both. As well as practical techniques, you’ll learn to plan and manage the creative, organisational and financial aspects of your projects. You’ll develop professional communication skills, including presentation, and the ability to analyse your work critically at all stages of its creation.