Film and Television Designer
Source: https://english.spbu.ru/admission/programms/undergraduate/film-and-television-designer Parent: https://english.spbu.ru/admission/programms/undergraduate
54.05.02 In English and Russian
Level of education Specialist
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 6 years
With the additional qualifications ‘Drawing Teacher’ / ‘Teacher of Additional Education’
Programme description
- The specialist’s programme ‘Film and Television Designer’ offers an opportunity to receive professional training and get a degree in a rare profession and receive a fundamental university education
- The programme is unique in that it combines the academic system of teaching artistic disciplines with active creative training and search for new graphic forms
- Unique creative methods that are as close as possible to the contemporary practice of cinema production are used during practical training at the school of film and television designers. As a result, graduates of the programme are much-in-demand at the film studios of the country
- Upon completion of the programme, graduates are awarded the additional qualifications ‘Drawing Teacher’ and ‘Teacher of Additional Education’
Main courses
- Technology and Materials Science
- Costume Modelling
- Reconstruction of Historical Costume
- Perspective
- Methods of Teaching Visual Arts Disciplines (Painting, Drawing, Composition)
- History of Costume
- Film and Television Costume Design – Composition
- Drawing
- Painting
- History of Cinematography
- Fundamentals of Film Directing
- Fundamentals of Motion Picture Photography
- History of Foreign Art and Culture
- History of Russian Art and Culture
- Surface Anatomy
- Computer Graphics in Film Production
- Techniques and Technology of Film Set Design
Teaching staff
- Larisa Konnikova, Head of the creative workshop for the Film and TV Costume Designer programme and lecturer in the course ‘Film and TV Costume Design. Composition’, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and TV Artist Skills, Honoured Artist of Russia, Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, Member of the Russian Union of Artists, Member of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science Nika, and Member of the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia ‘Golden Eagle’
- Petr Tatarnikov, a painter, graphic artist, and educator, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and TV Artist Skills, Member of the Russian Union of Artists, Member of the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art
Our advantages
- The programme is designed to form competences, a set of knowledge and skills that ensure the training of costume designers in film and television for professional artistic activities through a system of historically established training programmes that hold significance for Russian culture and art. This programme prepares film and television costume designers capable of creating independent, original, and aesthetically refined works of art; as well as participating in collaborative creative processes using modern visual, artistic, production, and digital technologies
- The additional qualifications ‘Drawing Teacher’ and ‘Teacher of Additional Education’ significantly broaden the graduate’s professional competencies and enhances their competitiveness in the labour market
Career opportunities
Graduates of the programme are ready to work in cinema and television and in various fields of creative activities: easel, theatrical, monumental painting; easel and book graphics; design; and photo and video art.