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Visual Effects
Diploma of Visual Effects and Motion Graphics (NZQA Level 6, 160 credits)
Increasingly, today’s sophisticated viewing audiences are creating a demand for specialists in motion graphics and visual effects who are able to generate captivating content that engages both the mind, and the emotions. Students of Media Design School's Diploma of Visual Effects and Motion Graphics use digital compositing to create layered and textural vistas to develop their creative and conceptual abilities and use these to build seamless, eye-catching, commercially effective visuals to help tell a story, entertain, send a message or emphasis a point.
Students learn how to integrate live action footage, programming clips, graphic elements and sound, to enhance film, television, music DVDs, advertising, internet and other digital productions.
The course combines the specialist skills of pre-production, production and an emphasis on post-production. Students develop valuable industry standard techniques and become adept with using various software applications (After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Combustion) to integrate 2D and 3D design elements with live footage, audio and visual effects artistry. Increasingly, today’s sophisticated viewing audiences are creating a demand for specialists in motion graphics and visual effects who are able to generate captivating content that engages both the mind, and the emotions. Students of Media Design School's Diploma of Visual Effects and Motion Graphics use digital compositing to create layered and textural vistas to develop their creative and conceptual abilities and use these to build seamless, eye-catching, commercially effective visuals to help tell a story, entertain, send a message or emphasis a point.
Students learn how to integrate live action footage, programming clips, graphic elements and sound, to enhance film, television, music DVDs, advertising, internet and other digital productions.
Students work over the last months of their qualification on their individual productions, producing work for their final DVD showreels which demonstrate their production and creative skills - from conceptualisation to completion.
Above is course leader Steve Dorner speaking with Juice TV about the course.
Graduate Destinations
- Graduates enter directly into the visual effects industries in film, game development, advertising, music or TV with positions such as Digital Artists, Graphics Artist/Operator, Visual Effects Artist, Compositor, Motion Graphics Operator, Editor
- Graduates can also choose to staircase into the Graduate Diploma of Creative Technologies or Graduate Diploma of Game Development (Game Art), broaden and enhance their specialist skills and capability through further study on a supplementary diploma/graduate diploma qualification
Media Design School reserves the right to modify or amend the curriculum and/or software applications without written notice.
