BA (Hons) Costume Design and Making

Program Overview

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From film to fashion shows, TV to theatre, all productions depend on great costumes to bring stories to life and capture the imagination of the audience. Develop your skills in costume making, as well as showing the process, creativity and innovation behind your designs.

Split between our High Wycombe campus and BNU teaching base at Pinewood Studios, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge you need for your future, all whilst studying right in the heart of the famous creative hub.

Program Outline

Modules

This provides a guide of the modules that make up your course. You can find more information about how your course is structured on our

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This course has Opportunity modules.

Opportunity modules are a key part of the BNU curriculum. You’ll choose modules in both your first and second year from a broad selection in areas such as sustainability, entrepreneurship, creativity, digital skills, personal growth, civic engagement, health & wellbeing and employment. Opportunity modules are designed to enable you to develop outside the traditional boundaries of your discipline and help you to further stand out from the crowd to future employers.

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Foundation Year Core Modules Credits

Preparing for Success Knowledge and Creativity

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The module will prepare you for successful progression into academic study while allowing you to learn about and prepare yourself for employment in the twenty-first century through inquiry-based learning, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.

Preparing for Success Self-development and Responsibility

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This module enables you to begin developing the Bucks Graduate Attributes associated with leadership and self-development and social and ethical awareness and responsibility, which are essential for success in higher education and in the world of work.

Inquiry Based Learning

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Delivery of this module is based on ‘confirmation inquiry’ – a foundational level of inquiry geared for developing your understanding of key concepts and themes as well as basic methodologies and approaches to academic work, relevant to your discipline. You’ll then have the opportunity to analyse a problem or question that relates to your subject a...

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Inquiry Based Learning

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Delivery of this module is based on ‘confirmation inquiry’ – a foundational level of inquiry geared for developing your understanding of key concepts and themes as well as basic methodologies and approaches to academic work, relevant to your discipline. You’ll then have the opportunity to analyse a problem or question that relates to your subject area.

Introduction to Fashion, Textiles and Costume Design: Materials, Processes and Techniques

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This module will introduce core skills and methods relating to research, design and manufacture. In addition to developing and applying these skills and understanding, you’ll develop skills in research, critical analysis, pattern cutting, garment construction, image making, colour, textile design and design development for both fashion and textiles...

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Introduction to Fashion, Textiles and Costume Design: Materials, Processes and Techniques

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This module will introduce core skills and methods relating to research, design and manufacture. In addition to developing and applying these skills and understanding, you’ll develop skills in research, critical analysis, pattern cutting, garment construction, image making, colour, textile design and design development for both fashion and textiles, and costume.

Year 1 Core Modules Credits

Design Techniques and Concepts 20.00

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20.00

This module will continue to extend your application of visual research methodologies, alongside a series of practical workshops with the aim of enabling them to produce innovative and original ideas, which will form the basis of their design project.  Through analysis and reflection of their experiences in each of the workshops you’ll extend your ...

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Design Techniques and Concepts

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20.00

This module will continue to extend your application of visual research methodologies, alongside a series of practical workshops with the aim of enabling them to produce innovative and original ideas, which will form the basis of their design project.  Through analysis and reflection of their experiences in each of the workshops you’ll extend your cultural awareness of their design.

Materials and Processes part 1 20.00

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20.00

This module will introduce you to a range of pattern cutting and construction techniques that will enable you to learn the technical skills required to realise garments for the fashion and costume sectors.

Materials and Processes part 2 20.00

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20.00

This module will extend your awareness and ability to consider fabric weight, drape and composition when designing and making a garment. Whether it is from a historic or future design perspective these key attributes will inform individual experimentation, choice of construction and pattern cutting.

Costume with Textiles 20.00

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20.00

This module will allow the you to study a range of traditional and contemporary processes in textile design, enabling you to create innovative textiles for characters within a costume narrative. Independent experimentation will consider the historic or social influences on the themes of the print, texture of fabrics.

Contextual studies 20.00

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20.00

In this module, you’ll be introduced to a range of theories, contexts and cultural themes associated with fashion, clothing textiles and costume design over the course of a series of lectures and seminars. You’ll develop your theoretical approaches towards the history of fashion and costume design and contemporary costume design for film.

Opportunity Modules

You must choose 2 x 10 credit Level 4 Opportunity modules.

Year 2 Core Modules Credits

Live Project 20.00

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20.00

In this module, you’ll be given the opportunity to respond to the professional challenges facing costume designers. The project will extend understanding of script analysis and visual characterisation which informs garment design, construction and materials chosen.

Independent Project 20.00

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20.00

The Independent Project module provides you with an opportunity to develop a creativity that establishes your own practice within a theoretical framework. It will expand your knowledge of a range of concepts, values and debates that inform and influence your creative practice, developing innovative approaches to their research and development of de...

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Independent Project

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20.00

The Independent Project module provides you with an opportunity to develop a creativity that establishes your own practice within a theoretical framework. It will expand your knowledge of a range of concepts, values and debates that inform and influence your creative practice, developing innovative approaches to their research and development of design and construction proposals.

Advanced Costume Techniques 20.00

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20.00

Through research and interpretation of historical period sources, costume making knowledge will be extended by introducing advanced pattern cutting and costume making techniques to explore individual costume outcomes.

Professional Studies for Costume Design 20.00

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20.00

This module aims to support your employability by evaluating your costume design practice within a professional context to develop an understanding of the key skills and attributes required to support your career.

Contextual studies 2: Research strategies