Christmas at Confetti🎄

We’re excited to announce that we will once again be a main sponsor of Nottingham’s favourite festival, Splendour! We’ve been involved with Splendour for the last six years and will be back again at this year’s festival on 23 July 2016. We’ll be running the Confetti stage, offering our students the opportunity to get vital hands-on experience at one of the biggest live events in the Midlands! Craig Chettle, Chief Executive Confetti ICT, said: “Confetti is delighted to be supporting Splendour for the sixth consecutive year. Confetti is all about providing real opportunities for our students to work with and …

Re-mixed and re-mastered for 2016, the biggest event of its kind in the UK, is back. With just seven weeks to go, there’s no wonder everyone is getting hyped for Industry Week 2016 at Confetti! We just thought we would make sure you’re preparing yourself for another week packed full of the biggest names from the worlds of music, games, digital media, TV and film! Who’s coming we hear you ask? We’re going to start announcing the line-up on the 1st of February so keep an eye on our social accounts and the website. You can expect interactive workshops, in-depth …

Nottingham City Transport has enlisted the help of our students to become the voices of its new on-board audio announcements. And it was their sense of humour as well as their vocal skills the city’s award-winning bus operator was after… With 75% of the buses across the fleet having on-board announcements – NCT have decided to add a touch of humour to their recordings. Students from the Level 3 Acting and Presenting course have written and recorded the new announcements in their in-house studio. ‘We are so grateful to be given this opportunity – it’s crazy that we’ll be able …

The much anticipated Fallout 4 video game was released on the 10th of November across the UK. Level 3 Game Art student Rowan Unsworth used her talent and skills to surprise customers at the GAME store midnight launch event in Long Eaton. Knowing her study field, the store manager asked Rowan to help with the art project: ‘It is made out of old cardboard boxes stacked on top of each other, which we then spray painted and dry brushed with a metallic paint in order to create a more worn look. It took around 4 hours to do the painting, …

Lyndsey Hardiman from the Musicians Union is coming to Confetti to discuss freelancing. Where: A001, Nottingham Arts Theatre When:  10th November, 11:00 Lyndsey is the Regional Officer covering the Midlands. She regularly helps union members with legal issues including fee recovery for unpaid or cancelled work, as well as organising promotional and continuing professional development events. Throughout her career, Lyndsey has done extensive work as a freelancer, enabling her to be aware of the practical challenges musicians face regardless of genre. Lyndsey’s talk will provide advice and guidance on doing freelance work and the challenges which surround it. Interested? Sign …

  The Student Microfilm Awards took place on the 19th of October, as part of NIMFEST, and Confetti students were winners! Awards were won in 3 of the 4 categories, for which a total of 7 Confetti students were nominated: Extreme Short The Fair With Goose, Jake Eden, Confetti Animation I Want You Girl, Maddy Pendergast, Confetti The Urban Worm, Adam Nixon and Liam Bagshaw, Confetti Drama Fluffy, Damien Ebanks, Confetti Partial Silence, Michael Jobling, Confetti Your Secrets Are Sins, Richard Minkley, Confetti Tuesday Afternoon, Ryan Harvey, Confetti In addition to leading the Animation category, Maddy Pendergast has also been …

Great news! It is with great excitement we announce that Nottingham Trent University has become the parent company of Confetti Media Group (CMG). NTU brings a wealth of experience and we’re excited about our students benefiting from the University’s excellence and success in education – locally, nationally and internationally. You might have some questions about what this means for you as a current or future student, so see below for answers to some more commonly asked questions. If you have a specific query, please get in touch. Will anything change? Day-to-day, no. You’ll still be a student of Confetti and …