Meet Richard Smith – Lead Character Artist at Deep Silver Dambuster
The line-up for this year's Industry Week is filled with industry pros and the hottest brands in the creative industries. If you're passionate about games art, then you have to check out Richard Smith's talk 'Story of my Career' on Wednesday 8 March. As Lead Character Designer at Deep Silver Dambuster - Richard has years of experience as a Games artist and in his talk he'll give unique insight into how he developed his career. Coming from an Art background, Richard knew since he was a teenager he wanted to work on video games. He studied 3D Art for Games at …

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Music and Events Lab Sessions
On Wednesday 8 March we’ve got an Industry Week first as we put on the debut Music & Events Lab Sessions! If you want to spend time chatting one-to-one with experts about some of your favourite products, you’re going to love this cosy exhibition. This is a day of opportunities to meet the manufacturers behind some of your favourite gear and to see their products demonstrated by company representatives. There’s also the chance to book onto some small demonstration sessions where you can take part in practical sessions or see exclusive performances - they’re limited so be quick! The sessions run …

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Meet and network with experts from the music industry!

Join Radio Producer Kate Holder, Radio X’s John Kennedy, and Metal Hammer Features Editor Eleanor Goodman at the NUSIC Academy Workshop!
DJ Yoda announced for Industry Week!
We're excited to announce multi-award-winning Hip-Hop DJ and producer DJ Yoda will be at Industry Week! Not only will he be giving a talk about The Art of DJing, but he is headlining Confetti Industry Week presents DJ Yoda + Guests - a one night only exclusive event at Nottingham Trent Students’ Union, featuring his pioneering audio visual entertainment. Book tickets for Confetti Industry Week presents DJ Yoda + Guests / Book tickets for a talk on The Art of DJing No typical club DJ, his interests lie in finding fresh and unique ways to bring turntables out of the club and getting …

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Our first Space2 Open Day!

If you didn’t make it to our first ever Open Day at Space2 don’t worry, here’s a look at what we got up to!
The First Confetti Live!
Babe Punch, The Bodega, Nottingham, 1st February 2017 - photographed by Steve Fisher Last Wednesday Confetti took over The Bodega to host the very first Confetti Live. Alternative rock band Babe Punch headlined the event with support from our FE & HE Music Performance students Matt Hine, Beth Jowett & Holly Taylor-Gamble. Over 150 people were there to enjoy the great local talent on offer, but the night couldn’t work without our Live & Technical Events students working as sound and lighting engineers, and our Film & TV students who recorded the event. The students used what they'd learnt in lessons …

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First look inside Deep Silver’s new GamesLab in Nottingham
Earlier this month we invited you to sign up to Deep Silver's exciting new research lab - GamesLab - located at Dambuster Studios in Nottingham. Last week we got a sneak peek into what you'll get up to if you're invited in for playtests, as our gaming team ventured down to Canal Street for an exclusive look inside GamesLab. Before we could get our hands on the controllers and get competitive - the whole team had to sign NDAs. This is something all playtest participants are going to have to do - as many playtests are focused on unannounced titles and secrecy …

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Confetti Live – An interview with Babe Punch
Babe Punch, The bodega, Nottingham, 15th October 2016 Credit: Steve Fisher Babe Punch are headlining Confetti Live on Wednesday 1 February alongside FdA Music Performance students Holly Taylor-Gamble (who we interviewed last week), Beth Jowett and Chris Hine. The newly emerging 5-piece alternative rock band from Derby/Nottingham have had a very busy 2015/16 - they've played gigs relentlessly across the Midlands supporting the likes of Hinds, Menace Beach and Allusondrugs, as well as the Y Not, Dot to Dot (at the iconic Rock City) and Splendour festivals. Check out what they had to say after getting some practice in at the studio before they …

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Industry Week 2017 – Nick Broomfield
With just five weeks to go until the biggest week in the Confetti student calendar, we’re super excited to announce our first Industry Week guest…acclaimed filmmaker Nick Broomfield! Nick Broomfield is as famous for his trademark headphones and boom mic as he is for his films. His filmmaking style has been highly influential and it’s been noted that both Michael Moore and Louis Theroux have adopted similar styles in their documentary filmmaking! Nick Broomfield's films cover a wide range of subjects from prostitution (Sex: My British Job), politics (Sarah Palin: You Betcha!) to the war in Iraq (Battle for Haditha) …

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Holly Taylor-Gamble – Do It For Real
We sat down for an interview with Holly Taylor-Gamble - a current Confetti student who has had a very busy 2016 - performing at the Hockley Hustle and as part of students projects at the CSFF Awards amongst many other exciting gigs. Holly currently studies on our FdA Music Performance degree having previously graduated from our BTEC Level 3 Music Performance & Songwriting course. "Here at Confetti you’re surrounded by people that are experts at what they’re teaching you. These people know The Stone Roses, they have connections and they have platinum records, so I suppose when advice comes from …

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We’re back at Splendour in 2017!
We’re excited to announce that we'll once again be a main sponsor of Nottingham’s favourite festival, Splendour - taking place this year on Saturday 22 July! You can expect a lot to be happening all over Wollaton Park - including our Confetti stage powered by Nottingham Trent University. We're on board again this year, following a successful seven-year partnership with Splendour which sees our students gaining invaluable industry insight working across many aspects of the festival from crewing to recording the performances for Notts TV. Last year’s Splendour Festival was a record-breaker for Confetti in terms of student engagement. We had over 70 students from …

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Our top Industry Week moments
Since 2006 we’ve seen thousands of students inspired by workshops, lectures and demos by creative industry professionals at our Industry Week event. Industry Week swaps regular timetables with unrivalled access to some of the top names from the TV & Film, Games, Music and Design Industry. Industry Week began with a handful of guests and has grown to become an essential and exciting week dedicated to the industries our students aspire to work in. As the countdown to Industry Week 2017 continues, let’s look at some of the best moments over the past decade… When we had Cassetteboy on stage... Cassetteboy walked onto …

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