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A Different Kind of Classroom

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book sets you on a journey of exploration. It moves you through our immersive campus experience, takes in the uniquely focused courses on offer and arrives at a place where your creativity will flourish and where you, as an individual are valued.

A Different Kind of Classroom

Venturing Out

Touring Theatre

Scenic Workshop

Directing

Ironman

Plugged

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US

Carmarthen offers a rich and vibrant hub of creativity that draws together a unique subject combination of the creative and performance-based arts with hi-tech digital film and media processes, to create a learning community that is dynamic, innovative and exciting. The campus is a creative melting-pot for practitioners and entrepreneurs located within striking and iconic buildings. Camarthen is also home to Welsh broadcaster S4C’s main headquarters as well as a number of companies and organisations working within the creative and digital industries. We provide an environment to nurture the best creative talent in Wales, offering rewarding experiences

and work opportunities for talented individuals wishing to work within the creative industries. Creative energy and flair is generated by a blurring of traditional discipline boundaries and barriers and individual passion is both encouraged and developed by an industry-ready approach to learning and study. Whether you are an actor, an artist or designer, you will find yourself working alongside, and with, creative writers, filmmakers, new media producers, puppet-makers and directors.

CREATIVE CARMARTHEN

“Living and learning in Carmarthen as an international student has been an amazing experience, and the chance to live on campus means that students have plenty of access to spaces to work on projects. The staff that work on campus, from faculty members to the day to day staff are friendly and willing to help any way they can to make your experience better. The historic buildings provide a beautiful backdrop to a learning community that will support you in any endeavours you undertake and set you up for a successful career in the field of your choice.“

Jeannette Baxter

Set Design and Production Graduate, 2020

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CLASSROOM

We subscribe to the idea that everywhere is a classroom within our creative community. The learning opportunities in workshops, lecture theatres, rehearsal studios and locations are where ideas are formed, discussed and acted upon – these are spaces for reflection, discussion, enquiry and opportunity.

Course: Adventure Filmmaking

Year of Study: All Years

VENTURING OUT

Expeditions and weekly field excursions are central to our Adventure Filmmaking degree. They allow students to experience filming in a variety of locations and conditions. These expeditions can be part of your assessed degree work, but we encourage students to attend the many additional trips and guest lectures that will be provided throughout the year. Our students are treated as professionals in training. Whilst they gain their degree they also gain a portfolio of experience and CV references. Our graduates are experts at being creative, telling stories, and are redefining the link between higher education and the media industry.

Steven Clarey

Dan James Phillips

Dan James Phillips

Courses: Acting and Set Design and Production

Year of Study: All Years

TOURING THEATRE

Working with professional directors and production managers the Actors and Design and Production students collaborate to devise a project around a given theme which they can then tour to local schools and community venues. This project directed by Yvonne Murphy from Omidaze Productions highlighted the importance of environmental issues and sustainability to primary school children. The show “Alice in a Plastic Wonderland” toured many schools in the local area and delighted audiences not only with its vibrant characters and ‘recycled’ set, but also with its message that we can all ‘do our bit’ to help the planet! ...it had a few catchy tunes too!!

THE SCENIC WORKSHOP

The scenic workshop is one of the most alternative classrooms we have. Not only does it host taught sessions about prop making, set building, puppet construction and scenic art but it also is the beating heart of the Set Design & Production course. Students use the space to develop their craft over the three years studying with us and can use the specialist equipment and materials as often as they want. It is a space graduates fondly reminisce about as a place where many adventures began.

Course: Set Design & Production

Year of Study: All Years

Read more about Steven’s journey by scanning here

STEVEN CLAREY

Graduate

Steven’s journey so far:

Starts filming blogs for Drift Innovation Cameras

Graduates from UWTSD

Tours Europe with Drift Innovation Cameras

Becomes a Panasonic Lumix ambassador

Stars in Panasonic Lumix GH5 camera launch campaign

FIA World Rallycross Cameraperson

During my time as a film student and surfer I was formulating an understanding of the sport and the creative techniques that now allow me to capture world class images for major brands and sporting events.

DIRECTING

The MA Directing course culminates in ‘The Directing Project’. Leading a full team of creatives, which includes set, costume and lighting designers, stage managers and actors, the director will explore, prepare and develop a piece of theatre ready for a public performance run. This process will involve script analysis, creative development and a full practical rehearsal and performance process. Through this project you will collaborate with students and industry professionals in order to deploy the skills learned in previous modules. This project introduces the student to the multifaceted and complex role of the Theatre Director and emulates professional working practices.

MA Theatre Directing

Course: BA Adventure Filmmaking and BA/HND Digital Media Production

Year of Study: All Years

CAPTURING IRONMAN

As a major sponsor of Ironman Wales, our BA Adventure Filmmaking and BA/HND Digital Media Production courses provide the opportunity to volunteer as part of the media team. This real-world experience enables students to access the press area of the start and finish line, as well as VIP spaces. It’s an opportunity to develop photography and filming skills, as well as experience a live sporting and media event, as part of a professional team. Work produced at the event helps to build a professional portfolio, references, and gain exposure through the industry use of the material.

COLLABORATION

The creative industries are built on collaborative relationships. This is the future. Your future, our future. We collaborate with creative colleagues every day, on both professional and creative levels. Collaboration gives voice to individual ideas, respects broad design opinions and embraces differences to build a confident, creative community.

PLUGGED IN

With the new headquarters of S4C (Canolfan S4C Yr Egin), the Welsh broadcasting company, as well as independent production companies, next door to our building, it offers a range of media facilities through placement and networking opportunities for our students. The course is well established as the only one of its kind in the UK and has developed professional relationships with companies such as Wanderlust Action Films, Panasonic Lumix, and OM-System Cameras. These provide amazing industry connections and opportunities for students and graduates.

Dan James Phillips

Year

Watch a behind the scenes video of this year’s Short Film Production here.

Courses: Acting & Digital Media Production

Year of Study: Year Two

SHORT FILM PRODUCTION

Working alongside filmmaker Lloyd Grayshon from Media to Motion and screen writer and Actor Keiron Self, acting students and Digital Media Production students will work together in small groups to write, create, film and produce a short-film. This project allows for the sharing of skills and industry focused collaboration whilst creating valuable industry connections by working with freelance professionals. The short film they create becomes a valuable digital business card for the students to build up their portfolio in preparation for entering into the creative industries.

CARYS-HAF WILLIAMS

Set Design & Production Graduate

Carys-Haf is now a Studio Trainee with Screen Alliance Wales

The course is very practical and hands-on, making it enjoyable and engaging. As well as working alongside your peers, the course also gives you the opportunity to work with actors, directors and other industry professionals.

A CREATIVE COMMUNITY

Our creative community involves place, space and belonging. Whilst it benefits from the exchange of ideas, values and information, it’s more to do with a feeling and a set of connections between students, staff, location and aspiration. These connections form and maintain communities to meet common needs.

The players in our creative community have a sense of trust, safety and regard for each other.

We have an individual and collective sense that, as part of this creative community, we can contribute positively, influence our environments, engage with the wider creative industries and encourage each person’s ambition.

CREWING THE OUTDOORS

BA Adventure Filmmaking utilises the landscapes of West Wales and the wide range of outdoor pursuits that take place in the region. Our students are professionals in training, and as such collaborate with each other as peers, and with external communities and organisations. Partners such as the National Trust, Woodland Trust, and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, allow for projects and extra curricular activities to be realistic, rewarding, and forge professional relationships. We also run a Women’s adventure group providing an additional safe and supportive opportunity for female students to develop their outdoor pursuit skills.

Course:

Adventure Filmmaking

Year of Study: All Years

Steven Clarey

FFION WESTON

Applied Drama: Education, Wellbeing, Community Graduate

Ffion graduated in July 2020. In the short time since then so has been a to freelance community artist with Tanio Cymru working with children with learning disabilities and now works with People Speak Up as an Artist Facilitator and Inclusion Officer.

In my final year I specialised in creating drama workshops for girls with ADHD, focusing on creating healthy coping mechanisms and building resilience. As I am a woman with ADHD I felt it was deeply important to share the knowledge which I have gained

GIANT LANTERN PARADE

To celebrate the opening of Canolfan S4C Yr Egin, Small World Theatre artists worked with BA Set Design and Production students in the scenic workshop to create giant structures and articulated lanterns to be part of the Giant Lantern Parade. The parade involved both local community and university students and weaved its way from the town centre up to the Yr Egin building.

Course: Set Design & Production

Project: Giant Lantern Parade

CONNOR ALLEN

Acting Graduate

Connor is now the Children’s Laureate Wales 2021-2023.

I fell in love with Trinity in Carmarthen. That’s what’s good about UWTSD, it’s a community. Obviously, the course developed my skills, but the friends and the network developed me as a person.

Steven Clarey

Dan James Phillips

Dan James Phillips

BA ADVENTURE FILMMAKING

The Adventure Filmmaking programme is unique in the UK, utilising the landscapes of West Wales, and the wide range of outdoor pursuits that take place in the region. This exciting new industry brings together the skills of outdoors adventure activities, media production, storytelling, and creative commercial work. There are fantastic opportunities to capture footage of extreme sports, sea life and wildlife, coastal and mountainous terrains, with input throughout the degree from professionals working in these fields.

Engagement with industry is embedded in all aspects of our programme. This can take the form of work placements, projects for external clients, working on film projects, or engaging with the many professionals from industry who will be offering their expertise in the delivery of the programmes. This programme is designed to give students the specialised and vocational skills required to work in this dynamic area of the film and photographic industries. Our production

classes are based in a purpose designed suite and studio spaces with views over the beautiful surrounding countryside. We start our adventure activities at the University’s Cynefin activity centre, which includes kits stores, bouldering wall, a pump track, and drone flying zone. BA Adventure Filmmaking utilises the landscapes of West Wales and the wide range of outdoor pursuits that take place in the region.

With the new headquarters of S4C (Canolfan S4C Yr Egin), the Welsh broadcasting company, as well as independent production companies, next door to our building, it offers a range of media facilities through placement and networking opportunities for our students. The input from media professionals associated with the centre has been really important to us, in ensuring that our degrees offer exactly what the contemporary industry requires from graduates. Students will be introduced to the core production and postproduction skills required to produce adventure-based film and media content.

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BA ACTING

Our BA Acting degree in Carmarthen is an industry focused practical course that educates and trains students to enter the creative industries as an actor or creative practitioner. Our students will develop advanced skills and techniques in a challenging, supportive and collaborative environment.

The course reflects the diverse needs of the professional practitioner working in the creative industries today and our students experience ‘real world’ rehearsal processes whilst working with industry professionals from many different disciplines. Through this training, students will create invaluable network links which will provide a gateway into the performance industry upon graduation.

Live performance projects and working with professional directors and facilitators is at the heart of our course.

Students have access to rehearsal rooms and performance facilities and are encouraged to collaborate on independent projects alongside their studies. These collaborative projects enhance our focus on creating a creative community on our Carmarthen campus which develops the student’s confidence and entrepreneurial skills.

Our students work with a diverse range of companies upon graduation and cover many areas of the creative industries such as Theatre, TV and Film as well as producing and directing. Our graduates also engage with community arts projects and the arts sector of education.

BA, HND, HNC DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION

Our Digital Media Production course focuses on new and emerging commercial and creative industries such as video streaming, podcasting, social media, and interactive technologies. The course nurtures the development of technological, creative, and storytelling skills. It has been designed with industry to offer real world opportunities to inform the learning journey and improve career prospects.

The course is well suited to those that want to develop a career in social media and content creation. Key forms of media that students will work with include photography, video, sound, and design. With fantastic opportunities to work on independent and client led projects, students will develop their portfolio alongside industry specialists.

Our students are referred to as professionals in training and will have a range of external networking opportunities throughout their course. These include attending events, guest lectures, placements, live projects, and the chance to study abroad.

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BA SET DESIGN & PRODUCTION

The Set Design and Production degree in Carmarthen provides a unique offering that focuses on Film, Television, Theatre, and events. It is an industry focused practical course that provides our students with multiple pathways into the industry and develops practitioners who are well-rounded and have a solid knowledge base. Our studetns and graduates are skilled in more than one area and ready to engage with the media and entertainment industries.

The degree is aimed at individuals who are fascinated by the processes of imagining, visualising, creating, and constructing. These processes find substance in research, designing techniques, model making, prop making, set dressing, location scouting, fullscale set building, lighting, sound and costume design. The provision also explores digital creativity through LED lighting, Audio Visual design and digital worlds explored through virtual reality. The degree is for creatively inquisitive individuals who want to design and

make environments; to turn narrative, scripts and screenplays into amazing, reimagined spaces through carefully planned practical modules and expert tuition.

A strength of the course is the frequent use of industry professionals to help our students explore, design and create exciting new works. Our students will be exposed to a variety of practitioners, companies and experiences to ensure they are engaging with the industry as early as possible. The collaborative and immersive nature of the Carmarthen campus encourages a variety of additional creative opportunities.

Throughout the degree, there is flexibility to allow our students to specialise and explore their own pathway, offering a variety of work placement opportunities, study abroad and practical projects. This ensures that students get the experience they want during their time training with us as well as support into employment and beyond.

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MA THEATRE DIRECTING

Learn the craft of directing for the stage in practical and professionally controlled performance spaces. The aim of our MA in Theatre Directing is to explore and engage with the demands and expectations of the theatre director working in the contemporary theatrical context.

In this programme you will practically examine the mechanics of managing a rehearsal room and develop strategies and techniques for a creative, collaborative process. Throughout the course you will work with students, theatre professionals and creative practitioners in order to understand and explore the work of the theatre director in theory and in practice. The course will encourage you to lead workshops and practical acting sessions as well as develop your individual directing and creative style.

The course will culminate in two large projects. The first being in the role of an assistant director where you will work alongside and collaborate with a professional director and the second being ‘The Directing Project’ where you will lead a full team of creatives and actors through a rehearsal process that culminates in a run of public performances.

“Working alongside specialist tutors and industry professionals, the course offers excellent facilities and innovative experiences to students, which will act as a catalyst for a career within the theatre industry”.

Peter Doran Artistic Director Torch Theatre

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HOW TO APPLY

Full-time undergraduate applications are made through UCAS. All courses are listed under University of Wales Trinity Saint David code T80.

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COME FOR A VISIT!

We really recommend you come for a visit and get a feel for the place. Open days are held throughout the year and booking forms are available on the website. If you can’t make one of the dates available we’ll try our best to make arrangements for you to visit on a day that is suitable, just get in touch!

www.uwtsd.ac.uk/visitus

DISCLAIMER

University of Wales Trinity Saint David makes every effort to ensure that the contents and statements made in this publication are fair and accurate, and the University will use reasonable endeavours to deliver programmes and other services in accordance with the descriptions provided. The University, however, reserves the right to make variations to programme contents, entry requirements and methods of delivery, and to discontinue, merge or combine programmes, both before and after a student’s admission to the University, if such action is reasonably considered necessary by the University. We will endeavour at all times to keep any changes to a minimum and to keep prospective students informed appropriately.

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