Production Design students have teamed up with Year 2 Digital Effects students to create a stunning short space film as part of SFX/VFX MA workshop. The project, titled 'Terminus,' tells the story of a sleeper in a space probe being unexpectedly woken on her journey through the universe.
Directed by Oli Nedwell and produced by Chris Chidlow, the production design students designed a model space set, with a miniature model spaceship and shot the short story using a motion control camera.
Following a day spent at Mark Roberts Motion Control learning about the different kinds of camera rigs, they then spent 5 weeks at Leigh Took's workshop at Bray Studios building the miniature and the model sets. Meanwhile an NFTS Production Design student built a life-size set of the inside of the space ship for the actor. They then spent two days shooting on the TV Stage with a Talos Motion Control Rig with an Arri Alexa camera.
Pictured is the actor inside the model space ship and the crew (including industry model-maker and art director, John Lee) with the Production Designer’s Pod.
Places are still available on the Production Design course if you apply before the July 11 deadline.
This course has a great track record for graduates working in senior roles in the film and television industry. Production Designers Tom Conroy (TheTudors, Breakfast on Pluto, Titanic, Blood and Steel and Camelot); Dennis De Groot (The IT Crowd and Little Britain); Art Director Steven Lawrence (W.E., Casino Royale and The Dark Knight); Paul Kirby (Green Zone, The Brothers Bloom, Love in the Time of Cholera); Art Director Gary Jopling, Assistant Art Director Jane Harwood, Junior draughtsman Sophie Neil and Patrick Harris who all worked on Les Miserables.
