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CMS - 2023-2024 - Art Dept - UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma

Creative Media Skills

UAL Level 4 Diploma 2023-2024
Plus Short Prop & Mini Model Courses 2017

Creative Media Skills Skills is an industry training organisation in Pinewood Studios that specialises in in the film and TV practical arts including: Prop Design, Model Making, Prosthetics, Costume, Wigs. Special Effects, Cinematography, Directing Script Writing and new for next year Production Management.


Introduced to deal with a skills shortage in the industry, what makes it stand out are that all courses are taught, not by academic teachers, but by industry veteran supervising professionals who have been responsible for some of the top physical:


Art Department, Special Effects, Props, Sec Decoration, Miniature Modelmaking, Makeup, Costume, Film Sets and more in the movie industry building reputations over decades with films including some of the Star Wars films, Kingsmen, Stardust, Batman, Blade Runner, Willy Wonka and the Chronicles of Narnia etc.


Unlike my previous two 1 week short courses this UAL professional diploma, was a 1 year intensive course which has now joined with:


Buckingham College Group to enable them to run the course characterised by the tutors all being senior high end film industry professional veterans who are now training and mentoring the next generation of practical film making technicians:


Courses (See both CMS and (Buckingham College Links):


Buckingham College Links


  • Art Department (Art Department, Props, Set Design, Construction and Decoration, Miniature Model Making)

UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma (Art Department) (buckscollegegroup.ac.uk)

  • Costume, Hair and Makeup

UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma (Hair and Make-up, Costume and Special Effects Makeup) (buckscollegegroup.ac.uk)

  • Directing and Production

UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Directing and Cinematography (buckscollegegroup.ac.uk)


CMS Course Links


  • Creative Media Skills


  • The CMS Diploma Couses

FurtherEducationCourses (cmsinstitute.co.uk)


  • My Art Department Course UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma

https://www.cmsinstitute.co.uk/further-education-art-department


  • Course tutors and Leaders

https://www.cmsinstitute.co.uk/leaders


Same courses as above, but different details to the Buckingham College Description as well as a large list of past and present tutors.  Please see both.


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Term / Semester 1 - Art Department


Subjects Covered:

  • Drafting
  • White Card Modelmaking
  • Recce
  • Crew and Art Department Roles


Tutors Included:


Term / Semester 2 - Prop Making


Subjects Covered:

  • Prop Making
  • Prop Types

Tutors Included:


Term / Semester 3 - Set Decoration & Construction

Lucky Dip Wierd Barbie Scene


Subjects Covered:

  • Set Design
  • Set Build
  • Set Decoration
  • Concept Art

Tutors Included:


Module 3A - Lucky Dip Production


Briefed to produce a scene from a known big movie in our departments working together with the other 2 courses.

Directing, Producing and Cinematography + Hair, Special Efects Makeup and Costume.

In our case the 'Weird Barbie' scene from the movie "Barbie"

Term / Semester 4 - Miniature Modelmaking


Subjects Covered:

  • Miniature Gameshow Set

Tutors Included:



Term / Semester 5 - Final Production


Subjects Covered:

  • Applying what has been learned over the year


Tutors Included:

This was the end of year production we had worked on and off all year at.

the UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma course at Creative Media Skills in Pinewood partnered with Buckinghamshire College Group in Amersham .


See my other work at www.chrisrosedesigns.com


There were 4 course disciplines which for the most part operated separately, but during productions worked together. Art Dpartment, Production, Direction and Cinematography, Hair, Costume and Special Effects Prosthetics and Screen Writing.

 

I did the Art department course. The plot of Domisciles centres round a set of migrants and home office staff, when one falls asleep into a dream sequence of a twisted, rigged and racist gameshow " Get Out of Here" that the host has all the power till things take an interesting twist.

Additional Creative Media Skills Courses

Props Making Essentials & Miniature Model Making

Additional Props and Model Making Creative Media Skills Courses


Note I have also attended the Creative Media Skills Prop 1 week Making Essentials and Miniature Model Making courses which covered more techniques separately including:


  • Resin Glass and Resin Casting
  • Gun Foam Casting for Soft Props
  • Poly Carving
  • Forced Perspective
  • 3D Printing
  • Basic use of Fibreglass for Multiple Part Mould Casing


Prop Making Essentials

3D creative design work carried out and learned at Creative Media Skills art department training centre at Pinewood Studios in 2017.


This was a 1 week intensive course at Creative Media Skills covering a wide variety of prop making techniques tutored by Leigh and Lauren Took from Mattes & Miniatures Visual Effects Limited.



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Miniature Modelmaking


3D creative design work carried out and learned at Creative Media Skills art dept training centre at Pinewood Studios in 2017.


This was a 1 Miniature Model Making techniques coverign a varieity of techniques including poly carving tutored by Leigh and Lauren Took from Mattes & Miniatures Visual Effects Limited.


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