Design for Performance

This course meets the industry’s demand for designers who work across a wide range of performance settings and sectors, from theatre to virtual environments.

In your first year, you’ll undertake comprehensive training in core principles of design and production across a range of disciplines before moving on to specialise in your chosen area by focussing on one of the following five pathways:

• Set and Costume Design (for theatre, film and live events)
• Lighting Design (live events and performance)
• Visual Design for Public Spaces
• Digital Content (for live performance/ recorded media, projection mapping, film, online)
• Virtual Technologies (for virtual reality, mixed reality, game engines, motion capture technology, virtual production)

Emulating the professional design studio format, students work in creative teams with access to an excellent range of resources, including lighting labs, studios, digital suites, dye room, scenic workshop and the College’s purpose-built Centre for Digital Production housing world-leading motion capture and XR (extended reality) stage facilities.

Consistent industry contact and connection through mentoring, placements and shadowing opportunities, culminates in our renowned Face 2 Face graduate exhibition event. This takes place in your final year as is attended by dozens of industry representatives looking for the latest talent and the shapers of the future of the creative industries.

You will have the opportunity to learn and collaborate with students from other courses throughout your studies, producing fully realised designs, performances and events, using experimentation, enquiry and creative research in your work.

You'll learn via seminars, practical roles and tutorials, masterclasses and work placements, with our highly experienced tutors and a range of industry experts and partners. Your design and technical skills will be demonstrated and built on in full-scale productions both at the College and at leading London venues.

Graduates go on to careers as designers for theatre, film, television, events, interiors and exterior spaces, theme parks, games, mixed reality entertainment, and immersive performance.

“The technology around me makes me so creative! Rose Bruford College has state-of-the-art motion capture equipment and other software on campus, and I’ve had opportunities and freedom to explore those technologies during the course.” Miyu, current student

You may also be interested in:
Costume Production BA (Hons)
Creative Lighting Control BA (Hons)
Scenic Arts BA (Hons)

Please visit our website to view the course specification in detail:
https://www.bruford.ac.uk/study/undergraduate-courses/design-for-performance-ba-hons-2023/

Course content is regularly reviewed, to make it relevant and current. Course modules are therefore subject to change.

Assessment will be through: Coursework, presentations, assessed tutorials and portfolios.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS