This course equips you with a range of practical theatre craft skills including prop making, scenery building and scenic painting. Skills that will enable you to pursue a career in theatre, film, television, museum displays, and themed attractions.
What you'll study
This course will develop your prop making, scenery construction and scenic painting skills.
You will gain hands-on experience and learn from working practitioners. You will graduate with a forward-looking professional knowledge, based on traditional experience and practice as well as modern materials and emerging technologies.
This solid understanding of the technical arts combined with a core practical skills base can be applied across a wide range of roles, sectors and types of performance-based activity.
Careers options
The skills you develop on this course will prepare you to join the next generation of Scenic Artists, Prop Makers, Scenic Carpenters, Scenic Metal Fabricators and Scenic Construction Drafters and enable you to pursue a rewarding career in the performance and media industries including theatre, film, television, museum displays, and themed attractions.
And studying an Arts related subject gives you a wide range of skills that can be put to use in many careers. Recent graduates have gone on to become:
Artists
Carpenters and joiners
Interior decoration designers
Production managers and directors in construction
Painters and decorators
Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers
Skilled tradesperson
Education support assistants
Freelancers and Creative start-ups