All you need to know
about our Preparatory classes
A bridge between the baccalaureate (all series) and higher education in Applied Arts, PREPA DESIGN allows students to acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge to integrate a BTS, a Bachelor or another Cycle in Applied Arts…
The PRÉPA ENTERTAINMENT takes up PREPA DESIGN’s fundamental learning and offers in addition courses more specific to the field of Animation Cinema.
This preparatory year, proposed from the beginning of the 2018 academic year, has been specifically designed to best prepare students wishing to enter our Professional Cycle in 3D Animation Cinema & Special Effects.
THE DESIGN PREPARATORY CLASS (UPGRADING IN APPLIED ARTS)
The Design Preparatory Class provides the theoretical and practical knowledge to integrate a BTS in applied arts or a diploma course. Whether you have a literary, economic, scientific or professional baccalaureate, the Upgrading in Applied Arts is open to you. Students wishing to join this course are selected after a motivational interview and a review of their academic record.
Then allowing access to a BTS or a cycle of applied arts (Graphic Design, Space Design…), the Design Preparatory Class provides the fundamentals necessary for the technical and artistic mastery of drawing.
The student in Design Preparatory Class will discover, learn, create and orient himself. Throughout the year, the key word is artistic practice: plastic expression, drawing, colour & form, visual arts… Everything is done to enable the student to quickly acquire a solid foundation in applied arts.
These subjects will be reinforced by professional courses (Graphic Design and Space Design creation office), where the student will experience the possibilities offered to him after this Design Preparatory Class. The training includes a foundation of general teachings: general culture & methodology, expression techniques, English and science.
ENTERTAINMENT PREPARATORY CLASS
Entertainment preparatory classis a year of study which aims to train students wishing to pursue a degree in animation cinema (Professional Cycle Animation Cinema & Special Effects) in the basics of applied and visual arts. It is intended for students with a Baccalaureate (all series), selected on the basis of their academic record, their art book, and a motivational interview.
Entertainment preparatory class is organized around the intensive practice of observational drawing, the acquisition of the technical bases of applied arts, but also the discovery of the fundamentals of animation. During 1 year, the student will develop technical skills, artistic practices, a keen sense of observation, which will allow him/her to really let his/her creativity take place.
General and artistic culture is not to be outdone, since it remains one of the cornerstones of this training.
Illustration, storyboarding, colour, sculpture… are some of the disciplines that will be part of this year’s Prepara Entertainment program.
Familiar with the different techniques of perspective, proportion and volume, the student will be able to create his own worlds at the end of this year, and to start a course in animation cinema under the best conditions.
FURTHER EDUCATION
Both Design and Entertainment Preparatory classes are subject to continuous monitoring. At the end of the year, students are also given a great oral exam, which allows them to evaluate their knowledge and guide them as well as possible according to their tastes and aptitudes.
At this stage, there are many opportunities available to them. At ESMA, students who have successfully completed their Design Preparatory Class will be able to move on to the Bachelor of Graphic Design, or the Bachelor of Space Design, two courses that then lead to a Master’s degree (Bac +5). They may also integrate a BTS in applied arts, or take the entrance exam for Fine Arts and schools of architecture.
Students from the Entertainment preparatory class program will be able to take part in the Professional 3D Animation Film Cycle (Bac +5). They will thus be able to claim, at the end of the 5 years of study, the title of 3D Project Manager & Special Effects.
As the Entertainment preparatory class is oriented around the playful arts, the students who come from it will also have the opportunity to present the competitions of advertising schools, animation cinema, motion design, video games….