NIDA 2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance) and Master of Fine Arts (Design for Performance) – applications close 31 October

Become a world leader in Set and Costume Design, or Lighting Design

NIDA’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance) is an immersive practice-based course that equips students with the knowledge and skills to respond to design briefs as sets, costume or lighting designers.

Recognising that a professional designer requires knowledge and ability across a wide variety of skills, students undertake specialist education and training in design for sets, costumes, properties and lighting, as well as accumulating technical skills in model-making, rendering, virtual visualisation techniques, manual drafting, computer-aided drafting (CAD) and life drawing and pre-visualisation.

NIDA’s Master of Fine Arts (Design for Performance)  course equips students with the specific knowledge and skills to pursue careers as designers and assistant designers of scenery, costumes, properties and lighting in the arts and entertainment industries, including theatre, opera, dance, film, television and events.

Students also investigate the social, historical and cultural contexts informing contemporary art, architecture and design, the history of costume and clothing, colour theory and lighting theory.

Students learn in a collaborative environment through workshops, conceptual and realised projects, and major designs for productions, exhibitions and installations.

In the final year, students work as a team to curate, manage and design the EXPONIDA exhibition as well as the design and management of a music video, a short film and student productions. Each student also undertakes an industry placement, during which they are linked to a professional designer who acts as a mentor while the student observes their process of working within a major performing arts organisation or similar area.

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