Welcome Guide 2016BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion & Imaging

In this section you’ll find your enrolment and induction timetables. Please take careful note of the dates and times you’ll need to attend during your first week.

INDUCTION AND ENROLMENT TIMETABLES

If you’re not able to make any of these dates, please let your Campus Registry contact know as soon as possible. You can find their contact details in this Welcome Guide.

TIME LOCATION

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Auditorium

Café4:00 - 6:00 PM

12:30 - 1:45 PM Auditorium

10:00 AM -12:00 PM Auditorium, 119a/b and 130

2:00 - 4:00 PM 119a/b and 130

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Gallery10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

3:00 - 3:30 PM

2:00 - 3:00 PM Projectspace

Projectspace

Projectspace4:00 - 6:00 PM

Auditorium

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM 119a

11:00 AM - 1:00 PMFilm Review, Group B 119b

11:00 AM - 1:00 PMFilm Review, Group C 121

11:00 AM - 1:00 PMFilm Review, Group D 120

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 119

ACTIVITY AND DATE

MONDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER

Student Welcome

All Students - Campus welcome - visit the Refectory for your free

drink and meet staff and students on campus

TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER

Students’ Union presentation

Library, Student Services, Health & Safety and IT Inductions

Enrolment (surnames A-M) - see Campus Guide for what to bring

Enrolment (surnames N-Z) - see Campus Guide for what to bring

WEDNESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER

Review of Mini Project and Summer Project

All students - welcome to UCA fayre

Collaborative networking

International and EU Welcome Event(An event for new non-UK students which includes awelcome from the leadership team, free food and drink and an opportunity to meet other new students)

THURSDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER

Film Screening

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER

Introduction to course tutors

Film Review, Group A

12:00 AM -3:00 PM Projectspace

WELCOME

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Instagram: @fpiepsomPinterest: @fpiepsom

If you have any questions, please contact Campus Registry:

Bev HennessyTel: 01372 202413

An answer phone service is available on the above line for any out of hours enquiries.

UCA EPSOMThree years full-time

Welcome to UCA! We’re delighted you’ve chosen to study with us and become part of our creative community. To help you prepare before joining us in September, this guide outlines your reading list, the equipment you’ll need for your course, and any projects you should do over the summer. Remember to look at your course timetable in this guide too.

If you have any questions, the contact details for your Faculty are opposite – get in touch and they’ll be happy to help. We look forward to seeing you at UCA.

Below: Gemma Randall, Fashion Promotion & Imaging,

UCA Epsom

Front cover: Jasmine Smith,Fashion Promotion & Imaging, UCA Epsom

PRE-ARRIVAL

READING LISTTo prepare for this course, we encourage you to conduct research by watching films, reading literature and magazines, visiting shops and collecting information relating to the subject. Explore some of the following fashion magazines to get you started:

Biher Tewelde, Fashion Promotion & Imaging,UCA Epsom

EXHIBITIONSHere are a few exhibitions to visit this summer as inspiration:

Boticelli Reimagined: Until 3 July 2016, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern age, 11 May- 25 September 2016, Tate Britain.

Georgia O’Keffe: 6 July- 30 October 2016, Tate Modern.

In this section you’ll find a list of activities to complete before you join us in September.

-10 Magazine-10 Men-125-A Magazine-Adbusters-American Vogue-Another Magazine-Another Man -Arena-British Vogue-Butt-Commons & Sense-Cent-Clear Magazine-Crash-Dansk-Dazed and Confused-Fantastic Man-Flaunt-Flux-GLU (Girls Like Us)-GQ Style-Harper’s Bazaar-Hint-i-D-The Illustrated Ape-Interview-Italian Vogue

-JC Report-Kilimanjaro-Let Them Eat Cake-Man About Town-Neo2-Numero-Nylon-Oyster-Vogue Paris-Pop Magazine-Purple-Qvest-RAG-Re-magazine-Rubbish-Sleek-Self Service-Special Ten-Surface-Tank-Wonderland-V-V Man-Vanity Fair-Vice-Visionaire-Vogue Hommes -International-W.

RECOMMENDED BOOKSCultural reading and viewing from your Critical Theory tutor, Liz Fitzwater.

BOOK SHOP LOCATIONS

MAGMA Covent Garden Nearest tube Covent Garden or Leicester Square.8 Earlham StreetCovent GardenLondon WC2H 9RYTel: 020 7240 8498

MAGMA Clerkenwell117– 119 Clerkenwell RoadLondon EC1R 5BYTel : 020 7242 9503magmabooks.com

The Vintage Magazine Shop39 – 43 Brewer StreetLondon W1F 9UDTel: 020 7439 8525vinmag.com

ICA Walk towards Embankment, cross over the Hungerford Bridge and follow sign to Waterloo station. The MallLondon SW1Y SAHTel: 020 7930 3647ica.org.uk

Have a go at watching or reading a few of these over the summer. We look forward to hearing your responses! Feel free to email your thoughts to Liz at lfitzwater@uca.ac.uk.

-Paul Holdengraber interviews Slavoj Zizek “Surveillance and Whistleblowers”, “Voyeurism and Digital Identity”

-Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Pervert’s Guide to Ideology - look on YouTube

-The True Cost documentary about fashion, shopping and sustainability

-Bitter Lake documentary by Adam Curtis

-The Century of the Self documentary by Adam Curtis

-Introduction to All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1) documentary by Adam Curtis

-Segment in 2014wipe by Adam Curtis from 28.27

-Black Looks by bell hooks

-Panel discussion about the booty

-Ways of Seeing by John Berger or watch it via YouTube

-Drug Addiction and Capitalism: Too Close to the Body by Ole Berg

-Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

-Conversation between Sunaura Taylor and Judith Butler

Upsetting things are briefly shown and spoken about in some of the above, so please don’t watch these if you already feel upset or nervous.

GALLERIES

Check Time Out and the Internet weekly for information on exhibitions and events.

Visit their websites here: thisathere.com and timeout.com/london

It’s important that you have the right equipment to enable you to flourish on this course - you won’t be able to achieve the best results with insufficient resources. As a Fashion Promotion & Imaging student, a high standard of presentation is essential. While building up a stock of art materials can be costly, if you look after your supplies they should last throughout your course and beyond - and you won’t need to buy everything at once.

If you’re buying fashion graphics and imaging equipment, we suggest you purchase a toolbox or other similar container to transport your materials around. You can get inexpensive toolboxes from DIY and hardware shops. We have a University Shop on campus, which stocks a good range of art and design materials, and it also stocks many of the items on this list.

In addition to this list, you may from time to time be asked to provide extra materials which are more specialised for certain units. We provide some basic materials and paper, but work can look the same if you all use our basic stocks. You’ll need to be prepared to spend some money on equipment and materials throughout the course.

Remember, you must always bring the right equipment and materials with you for all subjects. Tutors will inform you of what you need in your unit handbooks and in classes.

Don’t buy your software until you’re a student, as you’ll be able to get a substantial discount at:software4students.co.uk

You can also uselynda.com for online video tutorials on the programs we use: Photoshop, InDesign, Final Cut Pro, Premiere and Illustrator.

Here’s a list of essential equipment you’ll need when you join the course in September:

-Range of pencils from 6B to H-Pencil sharpener-Soft & hard rubber-Craft/stanley knife-Scalpel-Pritt Stick-Sketchbooks – A4 or A3 (buy as required)-Fixative (use hair spray initially which is much cheaper)-A 30cm steel ruler-A2 cartridge pad-Masking tape-Charcoal-Fine liner pens – various thicknesses-PVA glue (optional)-Spray mount (for final presentation of work)-A4 or A3 portfolio with presentation rings and plastic sleeves (but this does not need to be purchased immediately) -CD/DVD Roms (recordable)-A good stock of magazine tears.

These items are things which you may need, depending on your approach to work and on the projects. Select some to buy initially, and buy the rest as and when you need them:

-Magic Markers or similar marker pens-Water colour set, gouache paint, acrylic paint-Chalks/pastels-Inks-Paint brushes-Coloured pencils-Collage materials and papers.

Gemma Randall, Fashion Promotion & Imaging, UCA Epsom

EQUIPMENT LIST

In the past, this course has made overseas trips to Copenhagen and Berlin. Study trips aren’t compulsory but there’s a charge for students to join.

To give you an idea of costs, the Copenhagen trip was £270 for travel and hotel, and the Berlin trip was £250 for travel and hotel, based on 30 students travelling.

Field trips inside the UK are sometimes free, but you’re likely to have to pay your own travel costs such as the cost of travelling to an exhibition.

VISITS

Above: Danny Walker, Fashion Promotion & Imaging, UCA Epsom

Below: Latifah Gordon, Fashion Promotion & Imaging,

UCA Epsom

If you’re thinking of focusing your studies on photography, you may wish to buy a 35mm camera, however this is not essential as the University has them in the Media Store for you to borrow.

Our computer facilities are excellent and you’ll have good access, but if you’re thinking of buying a computer, we recommend an Apple Macbook or equivalent. The software packages we use on the course are: PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator.

SUMMER PROJECT

Over the summer we’d like you to start a visual library which will run alongside the course.

A visual library consists of tears or photocopies from magazines for you to keep together in a folder to use for future inspiration. This should also include references of photographers, stylists and creatives.

You can take images from books, magazines, exhibitions and you can also include your own photographs. We’d prefer that images are not sourced from the Internet but rather from actual resources.

Please make sure that the images influence you and inspire your work. Please collect 50 images this summer for us to discuss within your Induction Week.

Aims & OutcomesThis project is about showing us your references and images that inspire you. They could be sourced from international magazines as well as British publications.

This will also develop your pitching skills, as you’ll interact with a small group and tutors when presenting images from your library.

This project will feed directly into Year 1; you’ll be expected to keep the library throughout the year and it will be reviewed at the end of Year 1.

Skye Vass,Fashion Promotion & Imaging,

UCA Epsom

Please consider: -Why did you collect the image?-How could you use the image to inspire your work on the course?-What does it communicate about you and what could it say to a viewer?

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