Production Design

Scholarships Available

2 Years Full-time

Main Campus In person

Application deadline 4 Jul 2024

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Production Design

COURSE OVERVIEW

Play a vital role in designing and building worlds for the screen.

This course develops your individual creativity and teaches you the technical expertise essential for a career in film and television. You will develop your skills and gain experience on live action films, animation, television, games and commercials, using traditional and digital design techniques.

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"It’s been one of the most important steps towards doing what I wanted to do, and essentially what I am doing now; working as a production designer on challenging, ambitious and exciting projects. Without the course, I would not have got to what I’m doing now, as fast as I have."

Luke Hull
NFTS graduate

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You’ll learn in a fully equipped design studio, where you’ll be designing for live action shoots, using traditional and digital design techniques. Uniquely in the UK, you’ll benefit from studying alongside students of other filmmaking disciplines, engaging in a series of productions where working methods replicate professional practice.

You’ll also get far more time learning directly from professional tutors, in real production facilities and on real projects, than you would get in the vast majority of film schools or universities.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

Our design studios offer you a designated workstation equipped with a drawing board, computer, model making table and storage. Computers are loaded with the latest design software, plotters and a 3D printer. To assist you on productions, the School also has its own well stocked Prop Store and maintains close relationships with a wide range of external prop houses to help facilitate the diverse nature of student productions. We also have a selection of drapes and green screens available for productions.

Funding Available

The NFTS awards more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK. If you’re successful at gaining a place on the course, you will be contacted by our funding team with details on how to apply for one of these scholarships.

Upcoming Events

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Student Showcase

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Dive (trailer)

2023 graduate fiction film

Director/Writer - Will Peppercorn

Producer - Martina Buendia Silva

Production Designer - Darya Naumchenko

An environmental thriller set onboard an offshore oil rig out in the North Sea.

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From The Top (trailer)

2023 graduate animation

Director/Animator - Rich Farris

Producer - Martina Buendia Silva

Production Designer - Nivitha Muralikrishna

Things haven’t gone quite the way Robin expected them to, so she decides the time has come to get rid of her drum kit. But giving up her passion might not be as simple as she anticipates.

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The Tree Of Many Faces (trailer)

2023 graduate fiction film

Director - Johannes Magnus Aule

Producer - Bartosz Stanislawek

Production Designer - Olivia Clarke

Anna's broken heart leads her to make a deal with an ancient tree and its mischievous inhabitant. Her wish has dire consequences for everyone involved.

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Curiosa (trailer)

2022 graduate animation

Director - Tessa Moult-Milewska

Producer - Sychelle-Kristina Yanda

Production Designer - Sehar Kidwai

Curiosa tells the story of Mary who visits her boyfriend's flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she climbs into his head.

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Requiem (trailer)

2021 graduate fiction film

Director - Emma J. Gilbertson

Producer - Michelle Brøndum

Production Designer - Freddie Burrows

Requiem is set in 1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It follows Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves.

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

Poor Things

Concept Artist Antonio Niculae
Draughtsperson Daniel Warren
Draughtsperson: Set Designer Steven X Haber

Poor Things publicity poster

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

Napoleon

Senior Art Director Kim Frederiksen 
Concept Artist Jessica Sinclair
Assistant Art Directors Romain Hemeray & Steven X Haber
Draughtsperson Emanuela Piu

Napoleon publicity still

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Draughtspeople Jamie Burrows, Anna Woloszczuk
Junior Draughtsperson Paulina Camacho
Draughtsperson: Set Dec Tom Coxon
Junior Prop Painter Beth Slater
Painter Agatha Roudaut
Set Designer Steven X Haber

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar publicity still

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Art Director Isona Rigau
Assistant Art Directors Olivia Muggleton, Gareth Sprey
Standby Art Director Huw Arthur
Concept Artists Quingling Zhang, Kim Gronbech

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

House of the Dragon

Concept Artist Qingling Zhang

House of the Dragon poster

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Art Director Patrick Herzberg

All Quiet on the Western Front poster

Graduate Success

Graduates of the Production Design MA are working across a multitude of genres from blockbusters movies, hit television shows, comedies and animations.

Recent credits include...

Andor

Production Designer Luke Hull

Andor poster