Qualification: BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design (Interactive Media)

Level: Level 3

Mode: Full-time

Timetable: This is a full time programme of study of under 16 hours per week. You will receive your timetable when you enrol.

Start Date: *START*

4 GCSEs at grades A*-C or a merit or distinction in a relevant subject at Level 2 with functional skills in English and maths. We will consider applications with a pass. We will ask to see a portfolio of your work when you come to college for your interview. If you need advice before you apply, please call 020 8326 2020 or email ciag@west-thames.ac.uk.

You will work in our amazing new multimedia suites, gaining experience in storyboarding, stop motion techniques, games engine designing, programming and 3D modelling. We believe that students need to be engaged in every aspect of this subject and foster imaginative skills to feed back to their design work – and we also want the course to be fun! The course is taught by animation and games design lecturers.

You will study units such as:

• Visual recording in art and design
• Materials, techniques and processes in art and design
• Ideas and concepts in art and design
• Communication through art and design
• Contextual influences in art and design
• Image manipulation using computer applications
• Typefaces and letter forms
• 3D animation
• 2D animation production
• Computer game engines.

In the second year you will work on your own projects, developing games elements and animated sequences.

This flexible approach builds a solid foundation for further study or employment, while enabling you to develop a specialised programme of study according to your own interests. You will use the college’s extensive range of specialised equipment, and your student learning adviser will guide and support you throughout your course. In the second year you will receive guidance for applications to university.

This course consists of the 90-credit Diploma in Year 1 followed by the Extended Diploma in Year 2.