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Overview The Production Design course offers one of the few opportunities internationally to focus on this field in post graduate study. It is intended to develop the traditional and technological skills needed for entry into the industry while also encouraging students to challenge established conventions in their work. The course programme is carefully designed to utilise existing areas of expertise in a related discipline and add those required for professional practice. As Production Design can involve creative elements ranging from drawn visuals to computer generated models, students are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines forming a stimulating group that is able to share both ideas and skills. Teaching Staff are all specialists in their area of design. The course programme uses a wide range of teaching and learning cultures to stimulate creative development with one to one tutorials designed to foster critical thought and self management. Emphasis is placed on self analysis based on feedback from staff and peer-interaction, both of which are an integral part of the structure of the course. As students progress through the programme, the course modules allow for increasing periods of self directed time and independent study. Course structure The programme combines a progressively more complex and related sequence of postgraduate modules of study, where each module is weighted according to the length and demands of study. Credit points are given for the satisfactory completion of a module and are separate from an assessment mark or comment for the same work. Right: Digital image for title sequence 'Nebenwelt' - Achilleas Gatsopoulos Range of Activities ? Studio based teaching and learning ? Lectures, seminars, tutorials to include historical and theoretical studies ? Working with IT, particularly creative digital technologies ? Studio and location visits ? Self-directed study ? Exhibition presentation and portfolio development ? Contextual studies ? Induction programme to enable independent access to resources Staff Profiles Teresa Lawler Joined the BBC Design Department in 1983 after leaving the Slade School of Art. Worked as a Designer or Art Director on a wide variety of programmes from current affairs to period and popular drama including Lovejoy, The Cazalets, Top of the Pops and The Bill. She also has extensive experience as a freelance artist, lecturer and theatre designer. Her work is in the permanent collections of the British Council, British Airways and the National Museum of Singapore. Buffy Kimm Specialised in Television Studio Design after graduating from the interior design course at Kingston University and working as an assistant to world renound theatre designers Ralph Koltai and Stefanos Lazaridis. Credits range from contemporary drama series Holding Back to studio based programmes Run the Risk and Get Your Own Back. Tim Harvey - Visiting Professor Extensive television credits with BBC television have included many award winning large scale productions such as I Claudius, Bleak House and Fortunes of War. He has since frequently worked with Kenneth Branagh and was Production Designer for Frankenstein, Othello, Dead Again and Loves Labours Lost among many others. Ken Ledsham Ken has received BAFTA nominations for his work on Tenko and House of Cards. He has wide experience of film and video on location, film stage and television studios both nationally and internationally. His credits also include Devil's Advocate, Mother Love, The Final Cut and All the World's a Stage, and most recently Judge John Deed. Peter Anderson MA An independent video producer, director and artist specialising in original work for television, particularly in collaboration with contemporary dance choreographers and fringe theatre directors. He is a member of the ACGB panel for Dance on Screen and London Video Arts. Dominic Power - Contextual Studies Head of Screen Arts at the National Film School. Writer of plays, reviews and tr