This National Progression Award (NPA) at SCQF Level 6 has been designed to give you the knowledge, understanding and skills required for success in current and future employment within the creative industries sector or for progression to further academic qualifications.
The NPA contains three mandatory Units which you need to successfully complete in order to gain the award. These include:
Art and Design: Animation Project. This Unit is designed to provide you with an opportunity to extend their applied understanding of designing, creating and developing online animation within the context of an Art and Design project. Adobe After Effects will be the main software package used by pupils for this project. Other software packages such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator may also be used.
Art and Design: Video Project. The second Unit is designed to allow you to develop and extend your applied understanding of the process of creating digital film in response to a given brief. Adobe Premiere software package will be the main software package used by pupils for this project.
Art and Design: Web Project. This Unit is designed to allow pupils to extend their applied understanding of designing, creating and developing online material within the context of an Art and Design project. Adobe Muse software package will be the main software package used by pupils for this project. Other software packages such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator could also be used.
Everything you need to know about applying for this course.
There are no specific entry requirements for this course, but it would be beneficial if you had some previous experience of an art or design course or Units and had some basic understanding of the use of IT skills for art and design. It should be noted that this course will require pupils to study at SCQF Level 6, equivalent to Higher level.
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Whilst you are on the course, you will be required to:
Eating and drinking are not permitted in classrooms. Drinking water is available from water dispensers in the corridors within the College buildings.
Whether you wish to progress in your studies or enter the world of work, North East Scotland College has excellent progression opportunities, with links to eight universities across Scotland and great relationships with industry employers.
Upon successful completion of this course, you could progress to the following full-time courses at North East Scotland College:
Those with the relevant qualifications may be able to progress to university degree level study following successful completion of this course.
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This course is only available to pupils in S4 to S6 across Aberdeen City, giving pupils the opportunity to experience life as a College student whilst staying on at school.
Please note, applications for schools courses must be submitted by a member of school staff.
You can apply for a place on this course by completing an online application form, which you can access using the ‘Apply Online’ button. Once completed, this will be received by our Admissions Team who will then process your application.
Please note that courses are subject to minimum viability levels. In the event of insufficient numbers of applications, courses may be withdrawn from the programme. Certain courses are arranged with schools working in a consortium arrangement – in such cases, pupils from consortium schools will be given priority in the allocation of places.
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