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Entry requirements


A level

B,B,C-B,B,B

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DMM

Scottish Higher

C,C,C,C,C,D

Scottish Highers – five passes at Grade C or above

T Level

M

UCAS Tariff

112-120

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About this course


Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

Subject

Theatrical wardrobe design

The course seeks to present you with demanding but exciting and valuable projects that will demonstrate the breadth of the costume making and costume supervision subject areas and the focus that you will need to achieve to succeed in a competitive employment market. Graduates from this course have gone on to make costumes for theatres and film studios all over the world, so if this is your dream we can help you achieve it.
You’ll discover how to create historically inspired, sometimes fantastical or contemporary costumes on this exciting and creative course. You will make costumes and supervise for shows, films, plays and new performance disciplines.
This is a diverse and demanding subject – you need to be interested in art, design and all types of performance. As well as technical skill, you’ll realise great costume making and supervision of the process depends on your ability to interpret ideas and we place a real emphasis on how you approach your conceptual work. You will work very closely alongside students from the performance design and film costume course as well as with our make-up, acting and film production courses on theatre and film productions. We believe that understanding and experiencing the overall production process is what sets our students apart and gives them an edge in industry.
In the first year, the course curriculum explores both performance design and costume making for the first two terms. You will then make a firm decision whether to remain on the course you originally enrolled in or to transfer to the BA Performance Design and Film Costume course. The final unit will allow you to focus on costume making and supervision as you create a complex costume based on a dramatic theme. You also develop skills throughout the first year in theoretical study. Here the focus is on learning as much as you can about performance studies and methods for applying critical theory to your written work.
Most of our students undertake a work placement in the summer after Year 2 and this is also encouraged in the third year. In the dynamic third year you will have the opportunity to work on an extensive and valuable range of live theatre and film productions.
Approximately 75% of your time will be contact hours, including scheduled teaching sessions, but also supervised time in the workshop or studio, and the remainder will be independent study. 100% of assessment for this course is coursework based.
Studios and resources
Each studio space has enough industry standard cutting tables for each student to work on. Students also have access to: industrial sewing machines and over lockers, industrial steam presses, CAD driven embroidery machines and dye and textiles room, where you can use dyeing and screen-printing equipment.

Assessment methods

100% of assessment for this course is coursework based.

Tuition fees

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Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£19,950
per year
International
£19,950
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Main Site - Arts University Bournemouth

Department:

Bournemouth Film School

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

72%
Theatrical wardrobe design

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Drama

Teaching and learning

83%
Staff make the subject interesting
86%
Staff are good at explaining things
82%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
87%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

71%
Library resources
88%
IT resources
83%
Course specific equipment and facilities
50%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

91%
UK students
9%
International students
4%
Male students
96%
Female students
83%
2:1 or above
4%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

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A
B

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Drama

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£19,240
high
Average annual salary
97%
med
Employed or in further education
45%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

50%
Design occupations
23%
Artistic, literary and media occupations
5%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Drama

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

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£14k

£17k

£17k

£21k

£21k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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