Art Life - University for the Creative Arts

Above: a worksheet from the projectLeft: film stills by Ricky Hamilton, Meltem Ozyurt and Mike BrewinThe findings from the projectcontributed to the production ofa teaching and learning resourcefor national disseminationby the LSN, in the form of aDVD documenting the project.Students from the Universitywere invited to present at theLSN Development ProjectsDissemination Conferencein London, gaining furtherexperience of speaking in aprofessional context.The project was separatelyfunded by Aimhigher Kent& Medway and Margatefilmmakers, Chris Cordelland Mick Etherton fromBeeping Bush, worked withthe University for the CreativeArts to produce the film. Theirinput to the project and theirinteraction with students duringfilming further enhanced thestudents’ understanding ofprofessional practice.The exhibition, which tookplace at the University forthe Creative Arts’ Canterburycampus, documented thedesign process, as well asshowing the final eighteenshort films, and was formallyopened by the Head of College,Laurence Wood. There wasalso a special screening of thefilms at the Substation ProjectSpace in Margate.The success of the project, interms of student achievementand engagement, wassignificant. Attendanceimproved over the durationof the project and the gradesachieved for the unit assessedwere high. Students hadbeen euphoric at the PrivateView and almost all wrotecomprehensive and high-qualitypost-project reports. In theprevious year only three percent of the students had beenproducing key skills work atLevel 3 (most were working atLevel 2), but the project reportsof twenty per cent of thecohort involved in the project,were assessed at Level 3.Chris Pollard at the specialscreening of Margate in a Minute‘Theexhibitiontaughtme theimportanceof producingwork to ahigh level. Itis somethingI am proudof, haveused in mycreativeCV and willcontinue toremember’Christopher Pollard,currently in the secondyear of a BA Hons degreein Fashion Promotion andImaging at UCA, Epsom. Hehas also secured holiday workas part of a design team forSuper Super magazine in SaoPaulo, Brazil.27