Preparatory year Entertainment

A gateway between a baccalauréat and training for careers in 3D Animation & Special Effects, Video Games and Concept Art Illustration, the Entertainment Prep course is designed for those who want to work in the entertainment industry.

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Location

Bordeaux, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes, Toulouse
Duration

1 year full-time classroom training
Hours of lessons/year

+750 hours of teaching
assessment

Continuous assessment
Assessment of projects and knowledge
Final assessment of end-of-year project and oral presentation
prerequisite

Baccalauréat or equivalent level 4 qualification
Courses in English: minimum level B2 and non-French speaker
Language

Available in French at all ESMA campuses
Available in English at the Bordeaux, Lyon and Montpellier campuses

Preparatory year Entertainment

Shape the future of Entertainment.

With a solid grounding in the basics and fundamentals, our preparatory year gives you the chance to experiment with all aspects of the applied and plastic arts.

3D Animation & Special Effects, Video Games, Illustration Concept Art, come and discover the diversity of professions that can be practised after completing the training course.

What are you waiting for to find your calling?

What does this preparatory year involve?

You have the passion
We teach technique.

As well as focusing on general culture and the arts, our preparatory year is devoted to artistic practice. Observational drawing, illustration, storyboarding, colour, sculpture and more. The different techniques of perspective, proportion and volume will hold no secrets for you.

With our complementary approach to professional and technical teaching, everything is done to stimulate and give free rein to your creativity.

By the end of this preparatory year, our students will have built up the perfect toolbox for creating their own worlds and embarking on a course in 3D Animation or Video Games in the best possible conditions.

Objectives

Enrich their general and artistic culture
Develop your practice and your creative universe
Acquire the technical and creative foundations through drawing practice
Refine your critical eye and analytical skills
Develop a methodology for work, research and creation
Give life to personal graphic and visual worlds
Demonstrate a sufficient level of French language and culture to function in everyday situations (course in English)

Our teachings

Visual Arts

Discovery of history to encourage students to carry out research and personal discovery and to develop their curiosity.
Graphic and plastic experimentation

To expose students to the diversity of visual arts practices and develop their awareness and conceptualisation of the artistic process.
Communication and expression techniques

Both orally and in writing, students learn how to construct coherent speeches in order to defend their projects later on, through role-playing, theatre, pitch....
Drawing practice
- Observation, intention and narrative drawing
- Anatomy and movement
- Analytical and technical drawing
English

Develop artistic vocabulary and consolidate syntactic foundations with a study of semantic fields, conversations and presentations linked to the world of art.
Specific workshops
- Image sequencing
- Photography
- Graphic Design
- Volume, DTP

Join the Entertainment Prep Program

For Who ?
- For students who wish to enroll in one of the following two programs: 3D Animation and Special Effects or Video Games.
- For students who wish to study 3D Animation and Special Effects but do not have a satisfactory level of drawing skills.
- For students who are not yet sure about their choice of training, who want to give themselves an extra year to think about it and choose the right course that suits them best.
It can be integrated subject to the following criteria:
- A high school diploma or equivalent level 4 qualification
- Review of the student’s academic record and a motivational interview
Why ?
- Pour découvrir le milieu des industries créatives de l’entertainment.
- Pour accéder à un solide socle de connaissances en arts appliqués, arts plastiques et dessin.
- Pour acquérir des méthodes de travail efficaces et développer à la fois sa créativité et sa culture artistique.
How ?
- Courses and workshops over two semesters.
- A program heavily focused on drawing and its practice: perspective work, observational sketching, life drawing, graphic and plastic arts, volumes, photography, etc.
- Continuous assessment with learning and evaluation situations (role-playing) at the end of each semester.
- A Student Professional Project (PPE) led and supervised from the preparatory year onwards.