Set Design and Prop Making

Degree in Set Design and Prop Making, 120 Credits

Experience since 1987 in educating in the field of TV and film production design and prop making has now been developed into award-winning vocational university diploma courses as part of gscept within Luleå University of Technology at Skellefteå.

Prop Making

The prop maker is competent in making objects and creating effects for the stage, films and TV, and exhibitions. The qualifications are a sense of form, knowledge of materials, practical and technical dexterity, the ability to improvise and the power of insight. In TV and film, the theatre and exhibition contexts, there is a need for effects and specially made objects with different properties. Special effects may involve producing realistic objects, effects and course of events artificially as well as being able to work with computer graphics students and their visual effects. For example, moving objects, models, painted backdrops and pyrotechnics.

Set Design

The work of a set designer requires flexibility, resourcefulness and the ability to organize. In cooperation with the director, the set designer must visualize ideas, create a functioning work team and adapt artistic ambitions to a budget. As a set design student at gscept you will be working together with computer graphics students in order to better understand the demands of the modern special effects industry. Unlike theatrical set designs, TV and film set designs are created upon the basis of the camera’s prerequisites. This means a greater understanding of and respect for how light functions, affects colors and is captured by the camera. The set design’s finish is also important, as the camera can easily expose any poor workmanship.

Application Process

Students decide on either the Set Design concentration or the Prop Making concentration at the time of application. 16 students are admitted after submitting samples of their work and the required application documents. Deadline for this program is the 15th of April.