Programme |
Work Placement/Learning Aims/Description |
Duration |
Dates |
Closing Date for submitting placements |
Contact Person |
Department of Design & Creative Media |
BA (Hons) with degree award options: Animation or Graphic & Digital Design or Fashion with Promotion or Digital Film & Video |
Aims of placement:
Animation:
▪ Allows the learner to experience the pace of working in the animation industry through working on a number of live industry project briefs.
▪ Learner will be able to utilise their animation production skillsets on a range of projects. Graphic & Digital Design:
▪ Apply creative and technical skills across a range of formats, platforms and media, whilst developing the relationship between client and designer through the implementation of 'live' briefs.
▪ Prepares the student to work in the design industry in a variety of roles whether self-employed, freelance, in-house or within a design studio.
Fashion:
▪ Provides learners with the opportunity to apply the skills gained in the programme in the work environment.
▪ Provides learners with the opportunity to reflect critically on their own work practices.
Digital Film:
▪ Allows the student to experience the pace of working in the Digital film and video industry through working on a number of live industry project briefs.
▪ Allows the learner to utilise their production skillset on a range of projects. |
1 Semester |
12 weeks (Feb to May) |
January |
Nollaig Crombie
Head of Department
nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Digital Film & Video |
Aims of placement:
▪ Module will deal with issues pertaining and related to professional practice within filmmaking and video content design, production and distribution. It will include; case studies of exemplars both in-house and external. seminars with local professional practitioners. |
1 day per week for semester |
Flexible - days can be grouped |
End of March |
Nollaig Crombie
Head of Department
nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Animation |
Aims of placement:
▪ Develop the learner's knowledge of industry practice through the production of 'live' industry standard briefs and the animation pitching process.
▪ Develop a professional approach to their own promotion through a portfolio website and showreel. |
1 day per week for semester |
Flexible - days can be grouped |
End of March |
Nollaig Crombie
Head of Department
nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Fashion with Promotion |
Aims of placement:
▪ Provide learners with the opportunity to apply the skills gained in the programme in the work environment.
▪ Provide learners with the opportunity to reflect critically on their own work practices. |
4 weeks x 30 hours |
Flexible |
September |
Nollaig Crombie
Head of Department
nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
BA in Graphic & Digital Design |
Aims of placement:
▪ Learners will apply creative and technical skills across a range of formats, platforms and media, whilst developing the relationship between client and designer through the implementation of 'live' briefs.
▪ Prepares the student to work in the design industry in a variety of roles whether self-employed, freelance, in-house or within a design studio. |
1 Semester |
Jan - May |
January |
Nollaig Crombie
Head of Department
nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |
Higher Diploma in 3D Modelling and Animation |
Aims of placement:
▪ Develop the learner's awareness of work related issues and professional standards in the business environment.
▪ Develop as a reflective practitioner in the business environment.
▪ Develop situated context learning to complement the learner's formal learning and explicit documented knowledge. |
4 weeks |
Jan - May |
January |
Nollaig Crombie
Head of Department
nollaig.crombie@lyit.ie |