CR4002 – Creative Foundations - Craft Module

CR4002 Artwork by Ronnie Kaye

CR4002 – Creative Foundations Craft - is a 30 Credit Module taken by all of our First Year Undergraduate Students at Escape Studios.  

Creative Foundations is a Foundation Module in creativity and creative thinking.  Some software, such as Photoshop, is taught in this module, but the main focus is to explore fresh and original ideas.

CR4002 is broken down into a number of "mini modules", including Movement & Narrative, Photography & Composition, Cinematography & Lighting, Art Foundation and TRAP - (Teamwork, academic writing, and presentation skills). 

CR4002

Aertowork for CR4002 by Gioia Varago 

CR4002 – Creative Foundations Craft - is a 30 Credit Module taken by all of our First Year Undergraduate Students at Escape Studios.  

CR4001 includes a number of "mini-modules":

• Movement and Narrative: two weeks exploring the basics of creativity, storytelling, design and acting. To see more about the Movement & Narrative mini-module, follow this link.
• Photography and Composition Taught by Michael Hunter, this mini-module explores traditional photography skills including an understanding of composition, lenses and the art of the still image. To read more about Photography & Composition, follow this link.
• Cinematography and Lighting. Taught by Clement Gharini, our in-house Director of Photography, this mini-module introduces students to the art of moving cameras and green screen photography. To see more about Cinematography & Lighting, read this blog post.
• Art Foundation. The Art Foundation mini-module is taught by Lorenzo Mannicia, and explores artistic research, mood boards, art bibles and "photobashing". You can read more about Art Foundation here
• TRAP - Teamwork, academic writing, and presentation skills. This mini-module is taught by Escape Studios Dean Ian Palmer.

Deliverables for CR4002

• 1 Art Foundation project
• 1 Photography project
• 1 Movement & Narrative project
• 1 Cinematography project
• 1 Retrospective

(no Presentations, No selfmark, no Peermark)

1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th years at Escape Studios

Photobash created in CR4002 Art Foundation

To see what's in the first, second, third and fourth years at Escape Studios, follow the links below:

• First Year at Escape Studios 
• Second Year at Escape Studios
• Third Year at Escape Studios
• Fourth and Final Year (Integrated MArt).

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our new BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2023, follow this link.   To apply, visit the official page here.