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Digital Design

Course Overview

Digital Design has been designed to offer a wide selection of creative computing disciplines to students interested in creative and digital technology. Students will develop their computer skills and explore digital ways of expressing their creative ideas, ranging from CGI design, digital illustrations, and hand-drawn animation.

This is a very practical class with regular briefs, where the teacher works 1:1 and collaboratively with the students. Students will be set a task, develop ideas, experiment, and produce an outcome. These classes run between 9.30am -  3.30pm and are one and a half hours long

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Film Making

Course Overview 

Film Making is a creative, fun and contemporary subject. It enables students to embrace their imagination and enter a place where their dreams and ideas can become reality. The course explores different aspects of filmmaking, from creating trailers and adverts to producing and directing short films. Film Making students have created music videos, horror films, stop-start animation, mockumentaries and many more. Students will develop their skills planning, filming, directing and producing before finally editing their footage using Final Cut Pro/Adobe Premiere Pro in the Mac suite. We promote teamwork, a particular strength that filmmaking provides, ensuring students gain long-term friendships with their peers. These classes run between 9.30am -  2pm and are one and a half hours long. This class works well with Screen Writing* and Screen Acting.

*Coming Autumn Term 2024

 

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Digital Radio and Podcasting

Course Overview

Working from within the school’s specialist radio studios, students learn how to create live radio and podcasts as they gain confidence through producing and presenting their own shows. Students will learn how to drive the radio desk and use professional software, Adobe Audition to record and edit audio. The course encourages students to express their creativity and personality as they learn to script and create content such as radio dramas, adverts, entertainment news and music shows. Alongside this, they will have the chance to collaborate with other BRIT Kids students and gain experience broadcasting live on BRIT FM. This course is a fun way to learn technical and creative skills while working in a production team.

There are classes between 9.30am- 12.30pm which run for one and a half hours.

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Music Production

Course Overview 

Music production encompasses a wide range of areas in sound. The skills that the student will acquire in this class will allow them to cover a broad range of fields in audio and audio for visuals. Students will explore synthesizing/designing sounds using electronic software and their own recordings. These created textures can be used in many different situations, for example:

• Producing music (backing tracks) 
• Recording and designing sounds (games) 
• Recording vocals (singers, rappers, voice actors) 
• Creating sound effects for TV & Film (Star Wars sound effects) 
• Live and recorded sound engineering (controlling of sounds for bands and studio recordings). 

Over the year students will learn the fundamentals of recording and creating their own sounds/music. They will have knowledge of how to confidently produce audio within Logic Pro X, which is widely used within the industry. Students will learn how to write their own pieces of music through experimentation in the music software (Songs, beats, jingles, theme music). They will also learn how to design sounds, through manipulation of digital and recorded sounds. These classes run between 9.30am - 2:00pm and are one and a half hours long.

We are now partnered with Sound and Music. Through this partnership students will be involved in the Minute of Listening project where they will create 60 seconds of sound to be featured on Minute of Listening. Minute of Listening is a completely free resource, developed to assist and inspire primary teachers of all levels of musical experience and confidence, to find new ways to engage their class in reflective listening and thinking. 

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Screen Writing

Course Overview

To start, students will focus on the foundations of screenwriting and visual storytelling. Students will analyse pre-existing work both on the page and on screen to help further their understanding of how a scene works, which they can then utilise in their own work.
Students will work on story structure and work together as a Writers Room; the Writers Room has become more common in the British industry, having been the norm in the US for years. Students will collaborate to decide on the story, plot, genre, and characters. Students will look at and begin to create their own scripts for television, film and web series. Students may even get to work with our screen acting and film-making students to turn their work into reality!

This class runs 12.30 - 2pm and works well with Filmmaking and screen acting.