BA (Hons) Costume Design for Film & Television Bachelor's degree at Falmouth University

You'll learn foundation skills in cutting and sewing as well as skills specific to the live fitting of garments on the body. You will explore shape and volume and fabric manipulation. Through practical workshops, you'll learn how to use industrial sewing machines and operate efficiently and safely in a busy environment that mirrors professional practice.

You'll learn how social and fashion histories impact today's costume designs by examining real garments and fabrics from the Textiles & Dress Collection. You'll explore the relationship between fashion, textiles, costumes and wider visual cultures.

In this module you'll develop your traditional drawing and painting skills of clothes and clothed models through abstraction and deconstruction techniques, to present costume designs effectively. You'll also explore digital drawing, all the while contributing to your growing professional portfolio.

This module introduces the creation of authentic, communicative costume design. You will analyse how people express culture through clothing using anthropological, psychological and sociological perspectives, starting with your own frame of reference before expanding to wider cultural contexts. Through seminars and engagement with the Textiles & Dress Collection, artefacts, and media sources, you will challenge stereotypes and understand ethical issues around equality, diversity and inclusion. L

Collaborating with students from Film, Television or Digital Games specialisms, throughout this module you'll work in an environment that mirrors industry practice. You'll work from concept art, scripts or game narratives to create moodboards, wardrobes and costume design options. This module culminates in the construction of a piece of costume fit for purpose, ready for peer review and feedback.

With industry practices at its centre, this module will teach you about costume buying, hiring and commissioning. You will also explore processes such as costume breakdown and the importance of detail when developing character 'realness'.

In this module you will make use of film and media theory to explore how genre and costume bring characters to life. You will evaluate the work of established costume designers, exploring their role in the production design on screen. Taking into consideration historical, cultural and national contexts of screen fictions, you will examine how the intersection of themes, stories and characters is explored, how stereotypes are developed and exposed and how costume can contribute to positive change

This module provides an opportunity to bring fully-fledged costumes to life. Collaborating on a live project with industry partners or other Falmouth University schools, you'll be provided with a script and assigned a suitable costume design team role.

In this module you will explore how fantastical costume is made to perform on screen; how costume adapts to the demands of highly physical performances and how it has contributed to the spectacular in film and TV. You will explore the properties and potentials of materials and the means to articulate unreal characteristics and behaviours convincingly through costume design. Collaborating with colleagues in your class and in other schools within the university, you will contribute to the completi

Delve deeper into the historical, social, cultural and global contexts, introducing theoretical perspectives to develop your own and others' creative practice in an academic framework.

In this module you will consider the role and impact of visual content and context in styled images of celebrities, influencers and performers in a series of lectures and seminars. Working on the basis that the transformative effects of costume design can be applied to the creation of a star persona off stage, you will respond to briefs that simulate the wardrobe and image management requirements of performers in publicity and promotion.

In this module you complete a dissertation or equivalent, focused on your individual interests. You will reflect on your personal research strengths and experience, and engage in considered debate and detailed discussion of the chosen topic.

This challenge-based module gives you the opportunity to collaborate with outside agencies or with teams from a variety of Falmouth University schools. You'll develop character profiles and a range of costume options for main and supporting characters in live collaborative projects, both individually and as part of a costume team. You will also experience industry-standard practices of pitching for leadership or participation.

Focusing on the differing roles of the professional costume design team, you will gain an understanding of a variety of working arrangements, including freelance practice. You will get to grips with relevant financial management skills, such as personal and client budget management, as well as team dynamics and ethical interpersonal relationships.

In this final module you'll showcase the skills that have been acquired throughout the course in a live, challenge-based environment. Your costume design skills will contribute to the completion of a real screen output, be it a short film, TV show, advert, still or other collaborative project. You'll be allocated an appropriate costume role in the production in line with industry practice, and participate in the teamwork that brings it to fruition. Receiving ongoing feedback from your colleagues

This module equips you with the skills necessary to present your work in a format that shows it to its best advantage, whether analogue or digital. With workshops developing skills in photography and filming your realised costume designs, presentation of paper and digital rendering of design concepts, curation of social media and making and using showreels, you will create an industry-facing body of work.

You'll begin your foundation year by working collaboratively with others to explore themes of the future. You'll take risks, experiment through play and be supported to break through barriers.

You'll take subject-specific workshops and develop essential technical and practical skills in your area of study. You'll also enhance your analytical and organisational abilities.

You'll enhance your creative and practical skills in your subject specialism by responding to typical industry briefs, underpinned by focused research and experiments. You'll also gain industry insights through guest lectures and workshops.

You'll develop your unique identity in your specialism through the production of a self-initiated body of work. Your final project will be the bridge to your next year, fully supported by evaluative reviews and critical analysis of the work you have created.