Production Arts covers all the backstage processes required to put on a production for a live or recorded event. This can include aspects of design, stage management and technical elements of lighting and sound.
We have high expectations of all of our Performing Arts students and aim to challenge you to achieve outstanding results. Excellent facilities and a team of highly dedicated and committed teachers will ensure that you are provided with every chance of succeeding during your time at College. At QMC professional equipment and facilities have been carefully chosen to enhance your learning and help you acquire the skills you will need to work in the performing arts and music industries.
The world needs creativity. As well as preparing you for a career in performing arts, we also help prepare you for a range of alternative courses and professions. By studying our courses, you can gain transferable and employability skills that are valued by a whole range of employers and universities. You can go on to study and have successful careers in a wide range of job roles from law to paramedicine.
Excellent facilities and a team of highly dedicated and committed teachers will ensure that you are provided with every chance of succeeding during your time at College. At QMC we are fully equipped with professional equipment and facilities which have been carefully chosen to enhance your learning and help you acquire the skills you will need to work in the performing arts and music industry.
Production Arts covers all the backstage processes required to put on a production for a live or recorded event. This can include aspects of design, stage management and technical elements of lighting and sound.
The course provides a holistic learning experience of Production Arts, which balances the development of skills with personal growth and intentions. You will develop into an independent, vocationally aware production arts student. Throughout the course you will revisit your approaches to making and understanding production arts. You will have access to teaching and learning approaches that challenge you to deepen and refine your skills, adding complexity and exploring new contexts. You will work on a range of productions in different job roles to enable you to put your learning into practice. The structure of the qualifications is in keeping with current industry practice and university teaching and assessment methodology. The completion of an extensive portfolio showcasing your skills and knowledge will prepare you for progression.
A strong interest in production arts is highly desirable (stage management/lighting/costume/design). You need to commit yourself fully to the demands of academic and practical study both in and out of College. There are also production weekends organised immediately prior to each show, so that you learn about contributing to the work undertaken backstage as we rehearse and prepare costumes, set and props. You will be expected to have secured 5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above to start the course.
You will study a broad range of production skills and techniques that explore a range of genres and practitioners, gaining valuable skills such as:
The Foundation Diploma, equivalent in size to 1.5 A Levels, the Extended Diploma is equivalent to 3 A Levels.
The overall qualification grading for the Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Production Arts Practice is P to D* and for the Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Production Arts Practice is PPP to D*D*D*. This is in line with the rest of the BTEC National suite. There are opportunities during the teaching and learning phase to give learners practice in developing
Over the period of the course, you will be given assignments to do by your teachers. These assignments are one way in which you can provide evidence that you have studied and understood a topic.
Learners taking this qualification will study four mandatory learning and teaching modules,
Learners will be able to put their skills and knowledge into practice when they work on live productions, such as classical, contemporary and musical theatre in addition to music concerts and dance works.
Learn, Explore, imagine and create your ideas in Lighting Design, then produce stunning effects for gigs, concerts and Theatre show performances.
From initial Design meetings, to LX plots and Rigging, you will learn and develop new skills and how to program lighting Cues lists using Digital technology and 3D Visualisation software.Be part of the stage management team creating visual imagery, making props, set dressing and learning new skills in set building. You will be challenged to develop professionally and socially by learning team skills to set you on a career path behind, above and beyond the stage.
You will learn how to ASM, DSM and Stage Manage live theatre performances.
The stage management team are the unsung heroes making shows run smoothly and look fantastic.
Be a part of it.
The arts create independent learners and develop students emotional intelligence. They require the students to set their own agenda from within themselves, rather than follow set topics as in other subjects. They have to make independent decisions all the way, and be self-critical. They also need to be brave in exposing their creations, and accept criticism. Working in teams makes students into effective communicators.
The Head of Department, Steve Gallagher will be happy to help.