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Available dates can be found below - just click the link for your preferred date to book your place. Only one date can be booked for each course you have applied to, and please be aware that places are limited.
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You can also meet us at our Open Day on Saturday 29 June 2024 - you'll still be able to find out more about studying with us, meet our staff and students and tour our campus.
An Applicant Taster Day is more in-depth than an Open Day and gives you a more tailored experience. You’ll find out more about your course and hear about the student experience through taster sessions and opportunities to meet academic staff and current students. You will also have an opportunity to view our accommodation and chat to our support services.
If you have already been to an Open Day, this is your chance to explore your course and subject area in more detail and if not, you’ll get an in-depth introduction to studying here.
Here are some of the things you'll be able to see and do during your Applicant Taster Day:
Get in-depth information about your chosen course.
Hear about the student experience at BCU, and where your course will take you.
See the facilities that you’ll have access to on your course.
Talk to your future academic tutors.
Our current students will tell you what it’s really like to study here.
Find out about finance, accommodation and student support.
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12pm
Check in for your Applicant Taster Day
Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.
1pm
Welcome
Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.
1.30pm
Virtual Production: A New World
In this session, you will be introduced to emerging technologies driving development in Virtual Production, which combines physical and virtual techniques to create cutting edge immersive media. You will experience how Digital/VFX Artists, Animators and Filmmakers utilise BCU facilities to create 'Live-keyed' sequences, with computer controlled cameras, utilising the robotic system known as 'The Bolt', as well as hand held Cinema cameras.
2.30pm
Comfort break
2.45pm
Tutorial: Get Inspired
During this session, you will have the chance to explore your creative style and be inspired by our academics and other students. We will break out into small groups in a tutorial-style session, reflecting how you’ll be taught if you choose to study at BCU.
Our academics will work closely with you to understand your unique style and provide feedback on your work and ideas, allowing you to develop further as a creative individual.
Please feel free to bring a piece of your creative work from school or college, or work that has inspired you to this session. Examples of what you could bring include:
3.45pm
Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)
Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.
6pm
Close
10am
We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.
10.30am
11am
Lunch
Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.
12.45pm
1.45pm
4pm
Workshop: On-set operations
The session will assign you into different on set roles where you will perform the required duties as best as you can. It introduces the collaborative element of the course.
Workshop: View the rushes
Here you will view the rushes filmed in the first session, where peer critique will take place. This introduces you to the peer review system, where your work may be critiqued by your peers.
4.00pm
Tutorial: Visual storytelling
Looking closely at what it means to write for the screen, we will examine screenwriting layout, how to tell a story visually and perform a script to screen analysis on a class film scene.
Group Activity
Collaboration is a key skill in filmmaking and working in teams is an essential skill. See how you can build these fundamental skills through an improvised pitch and story forming session.
Tutorial: Be Inspired
During this session, in small groups we will look at your work, much as we would do if you choose to study at BCU. We will inspire you, help you to explore your creative style and make suggestions as to how to develop even further.
In order to do this, please bring between 5-10 of your own photographs. This doesn't have to be a finished portfolio and could include a sketchbook, if you have one. We want to see your work in its best light, so please don't show anything on your phone – prints, a tablet or laptop are much better. If none of these are available, then you can bring the images on a memory stick and we can open them up for you.
By doing this, you will see how we teach and how we can help you to improve as a photographer, not just in the future but in your current studies, too.
Workshop: Be Creative
We will take you into our studios so that you can try out our industry-standard facilities for yourselves. You will experience a practical workshop, using the amazing cameras, lights and other equipment we have at BCU, understanding the technical process and creating striking photographs by the end of the session.
Coding Interactivity in Unity
In this session you will use coding in C# within the Unity game engine to add bespoke user interactions to your games.
Re-designing a basic game
This session will allow you to understand the fundamentals of making a simple game without having to rely on computer software, it's fun and informative and presents challenge.
In this session you will use coding in C# within the Unity game engine to add bespoke user interactions to your games. (Joint with CGT and VFX).
Making things look good: Materials and Lighting in Unreal
In this session you will explore how to create materials and control the lighting and look of environments in the Unreal game engine.
We're currently offering a range of discounts to help you to travel to your Applicant Taster Day.
Once you've booked your place, look out for your confirmation email as it will include details of how to claim free bus travel in the West Midlands and free national coach travel (valid for you plus one guest).
If you're travelling to us by car, you'll also be able to claim free parking at our City Centre campus and close to our City South, School of Art and School of Jewellery campuses.
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