University Centre

Digital Arts

If you want to turn your passion for creativity into a fulfilling and exciting career, a degree in digital arts from Newcastle College University Centre will boost your skills, refine your flair and give you a creative environment where you will thrive with like-minded peers.

Our degrees will give you a broad experience of the digital arts industry where you will access industry-standard facilities and software such as Cinema 4D and VR headsets, Apple Mac suites, animation, illustration and visual FX workshop, green screen facilities and screen print studios.

Getting you ready for a thrilling career in the digital industry is one of our top priorities. Not only will you learn from industry-experienced tutors, but our previous students have worked with industry-specialists on live briefs and campaigns for companies such as Channel 4, Live Theatre and Penguin Books.

If you are a creative who thrives on telling stories through their work, you will love studying with us.

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FdA Graphic Communications

If you are innovative and love to take risks, explore your creative passion with this Graphic Communications degree.

Length: 2 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 13th September 2021
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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FdA Creative Content Video Production

If you're looking for a degree where you can design your own future, this is the course for you.

Length: 2 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 13th September 2021
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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BA (Hons) Photography

Are you passionate about the visual world and capturing important moments? This Photography degree is perfect for you.

Length: 3 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 14th September 2020
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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BA (Hons) Illustration

If you're a visual storyteller, highly creative and want to develop your passion for drawing and illustration, this degree is for you.

Length: 3 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 13th September 2021
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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BA (Hons) Animation

If you're passionate about digital and traditional animation, enjoy working with technology and are a natural problem solver, this is the degree for you.

Length: 3 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 13th September 2021
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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BA (Hons) Audio Visual Production (Top-Up)

If you have the right creative foundation, this top-up degree will give you the freedom to self-direct your own audio visual project.

Length: 1 year
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 13th September 2021
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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BA (Hons) Graphic Communication (Top-Up)

If you are highly creative and like to use your artistic skills to solve problems, this Graphic Communication degree could be for you.

Length: 1 year
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 13th September 2021
Location: Rye Hill Campus

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David Bell

BA (Hons) Photography

"The biggest highlight of studying at the University Centre was when I was offered the job at the Handbag Clinic as an in house photographer. Without the course and everything that I’ve learnt while studying here, I wouldn’t have had that opportunity."

Jessica Cornforth

Level 3 in Photography

"I struggled at school, but I worked hard especially in maths and English, I was so relieved to pass both subjects at GCSE. I chose to study at college as I don’t like exams and hands on learning was better for me."

Daily tasks:

Directs the arranging of conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures and advertising rates.
Reviews and revises campaign strategy in light of sales figures, surveys, etc. and takes appropriate corrective measures if necessary.
Conceives advertising campaign to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way.
Defines target group and implements strategy through appropriate media planning work.
Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed and develops the most appropriate strategy to deliver the objectives.

Median Salary

£59,250 View more

Daily tasks:

Activates the 'live' website.
Tests website interaction and performance prior to going 'live'.
Writes and publishes content for the website.
Establishes methods to ensure appropriate website security and recovery.
Designs and develops web interfaces for relational database systems.
Develops the website and applications.
Designs web pages including graphics, animation and functionality to maximise visual effectiveness and facilitate appropriate access.
Presents design options to the client.
Liaises with internal/external client in order to define the requirements for the website.

Median Salary

£33,689 View more

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Deals with copyright issues and negotiates fees.
Liaises with client on the appropriate image/s to be used.
Researches images for clients in a wide range of media using specialist picture libraries and archives, museums, galleries etc., or commissions new images.
Presents findings in the required format, via written reports or presentations.
Provides support to criminal intelligence or to military or other security operations by gathering and verifying intelligence data and sources.
Provides administrative support for programme development such as booking facilities.
Briefs presenters, scriptwriters or journalists as required via verbal or written reports.
Research sources for accurate factual material, finds suitable contributors to programmes or print features and deals with any copyright issues.
Liaises with production team to generate and develop ideas for film, television and radio programmes.

Median Salary

£38,808 View more

Daily tasks:

Arranges conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures and advertising rates.
Reviews and revises campaign in light of sales figures, surveys, etc..
Conceives advertising campaign to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way.
Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed, defines target group and assesses the suitability of various media.

Median Salary

£44,714 View more

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Produces works on commission basis for clients.
Markets and sells finished work directly to customers.
Liaises with writers and publishers to produce book illustrations.
Uses artistic skills to restore damaged artworks.
Approaches managers of galleries and exhibitions in order to get finished work displayed.
Builds up composition into finished work by carving, sculpting, etching, painting, engraving, drawing, etc..
Prepares sketches, scale drawings or colour schemes.
Selects appropriate materials, medium and method.
Onceives and develops ideas and ways of working for artistic composition.

Median Salary

£26,452 View more

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Produces or oversees creation of the final product.
Liaises with other parts of the production team to ensure graphic design fits with other elements, processes and timescales.
Prepares specification and instructions for realisation of the project.
Prepares sketches, scale drawings, models, colour schemes and other mock-ups to show clients and discusses any required alterations.
Undertakes research into project, considers previous related projects and compares costs of using different processes.
Liaises with client to clarify aims of project brief, discusses media, software and technology to be used, establishes timetable for project and defines budgetary constraints.

Median Salary

£28,115 View more

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Operates sound mixing and dubbing equipment to obtain desired mix, level and balance of sound.
Manages health and safety issues.
Operates equipment to record, edit and play back films and television programmes.
Checks operation and positioning of projectors, vision and sound recording equipment, and mixing and dubbing equipment.
Controls transmission, broadcasting and satellite systems for television and radio programmes, identifies and solves related technical problems.
Takes, records and manipulates digital images and digital video footage.
Photographs subject or follows action by moving camera.
Operates scanning equipment to transfer image to computer and manipulates image to achieve the desired effect.
Inserts lenses and adjusts aperture and speed settings as necessary.
Arranges subject, lighting, camera equipment and any microphones.

Median Salary

£29,069 View more

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Liaises with production staff in checking final proof copies immediately prior to printing.
Selects material for broadcast or publication, checks style, grammar, accuracy and legality of content and arranges for any necessary revisions.
Writes articles and features and submits draft manuscripts to newspaper, magazine, periodical or programme editor.
Determines subject matter and undertakes research by interviewing, attending public events, seeking out records, reviewing written work, attending film and stage performances etc..

Median Salary

£37,116 View more

Daily tasks:

Applies decorative designs and finishes to glassware, optical glass and ceramic goods by grinding, smoothing, polishing, cutting, etching, dipping, painting or transferring patterns or labels.
Cuts and joins unfired stoneware pipes to form junctions and gullies, moulds sealing bands on clay pipes, prepares and joins porcelain or earthenware components and assists crucible makers and stone workers with their tasks.
Throws, casts and presses clay by hand or machine to form pottery, stoneware or refractory goods such as bricks, crucibles, ornaments, sanitary furnishings, saggars, cups, saucers, plates and roofing tiles.
Makes models and moulds from moulding clay and plaster for use in the making and casting of pottery and other ceramic goods.
Makes artificial eyes, laminated glass sheets or blocks, glass fibre tissue, wool, filament and matting, marks optical lenses and assembles rimless spectacles.
Uses hand tools and operates machinery to heat, bend, shape, press, drill and cut glass.