Confetti’s tenth Splendour Festival: our finest year yet

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 …

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 …

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 …

  On 9th July, our FE students will celebrate their successes in a demonstration of their work. Between 3-7pm at Confetti on Convent Street in Nottingham, we’ll show off the brightest and best creative talent that Nottingham has to offer. With everything from music to gaming and visual effects on show, the event is not to be missed. The student café will host performance sets whilst other rooms around Confetti will be open to live film screenings, interactive game demonstrations and more. Head of Teaching and Learning, Darren Bourne couldn’t be more proud of this year’s FE creative technologists. “Our …

Congratulations to our Confetti Degree Show Awards Nominees 2015. We’ve been announcing them all via Confetti’s Facebook page over the last few days and now the nominees are all in! Students who have excelled throughout their studies have been nominated by their tutors and the category winners will be presented with their award at a special ceremony taking place following the degree show on Thursday 11 June. The nominees are: Games Technology Achievement in Game Concept Jess Parry Raheem Johnson Tom Abbot Achievement in 3D Dale Williams Lee Fox Tom Honeybell Achievement in Games Audio Rhianne Murphy Dale Williams Chris …

With just six weeks to go, there’s no wonder everyone is getting hyped for Industry Week 2015 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 TV and film! Who’s coming? It’s still early but we’ve already confirmed some massive names! Sleaford Mods frontman, Jason Williamson will be gracing Confetti students with an appearance on opening day. Music fans will be treated to a talk from Jason on his own experiences in the industry. Game fans can get all the top tips …

A showcase event for Nottingham’s Young Creative Awards 2015 is to be staged in the newly revamped Trinity Square on Friday 24th October. And our BTEC Level 3 Technical Events students couldn’t be more involved, providing all the tech and set up for the event. The awards, sponsored by Confetti Media Group, offer young people the opportunity to take part in a citywide creative competition, and win a mixture of cash and other prizes, such as mentoring opportunities and work experience which will enable them to further their creative industry careers. The showcase event aims to showcase the work of …

As well as Splendour and this year’s Fresh welcome events, Confetti BTEC Level 3 Technical Events students have been providing all the technical set-up and provision for this week’s Young Creative Awards Showcase Event. Taking place at Trinity Square on 24th October, students will be running all the technical aspects of the event and showcasing the real skills Confetti students have. The experience of working on real events in invaluable for our students with opportunities throughout the year to work on some of the biggest events in the county. The Young Creative Awards, sponsored by Confetti Media Group, will showcase …

From today’s Barburrito takeover in the student café to the ever-growing list of brands we’re working with, it’s safe to say #Fresh14 is the best freshers event yet… and we’ve hardly started. Everyone from HMV to Ratchet clothing is clamouring to bag a space at our HE pop-up festival or advertise in our student guide, because, quite frankly, they know you’re the coolest people around. We had crazy queues when Barburrito handed out nachos and gave away discount vouchers and we’re expecting more of the same at our pop-up festival. Taking place in the HE lounge on 25th September from …