Foundation Year

• Familiarise yourself with contemporary artistic practice through issues, quotations or statements drawn from plastic, literary, film or musical works (Image Workshop).
• Test your theoretical and practical knowledge of physical, chemical and physiological colour, whose main elements are the values, contrasts, harmonies, hues and language codes (Colour Course).
• Draw by observing and understanding lines and surfaces in order to transform 3D elements into two dimensions (Drawing Course).
• Draw by highlighting research and experimentation from a purely artistic perspective (Creative Drawing Course).
• Become aware of your graphic environment and learn about the vocabulary of shapes and colours, in addition to understanding the relationship between typography and image (Graphic Design Course).
• Create a visual universe “in motion” through video and interaction design (Moving Image).
• Become familiar with the computers and the main creative software used at ECAL (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) and create a portfolio of the best works produced during the Foundation Year, using a combination of the different tools taught (Computer Science Course).
• Practice photography using basic techniques: natural and artificial light, space and perspective in the field of architecture, still life and portraiture (Photography Course).
• Acquire background knowledge via theory courses (history of art, film, graphic design, industrial design, photography, interaction design, video art in relation to each of the six major options, etc.).

In addition to theory and practical courses, every Friday student stake a course on their BA major.

• Fine Arts option
  Develop artistic expression and singularity by tackling sculpture, painting, installation or performance in targeted exercises.
• Cinema option
  Experiment and learn the basics of the main practical aspects: filming, editing, viewing and teamwork.
• Industrial Design option
  Research ideas, create relevant and technically simple objects and prototypes and learn how to work in the studio.
• Graphic Design option
  Deepen the basic formal and colour vocabulary by addressing the relationship between image and text and acquire a working methodology and thinking skills in line with the development of graphic projects.
• Media & Interaction Design option
  Encourage introduction to digital practices, enabling students to tackle screen and network interaction design, as well as to design and develop personal projects (applications, websites, video clips, video games, connected objects, etc.).
• Photography option
  Reinforce basic knowledge in technical and practical areas such as digital colour photography, lighting, working with models, sequencing and photo editing.