Pulse College: Term in Review

It's been a full term of events, successes and milestones. Pulse College came back to a new college year armed with a set of new dynamic courses in gaming and film. We have had the privilege of being nominated as the City and Guilds Bursary Centre and we have a number of high profile artists using our state of the art facilities. So much has taken place that it is appropriate to show case all the events in "Term in Review".


September:
Launch of Innovative Courses: 2010 saw the launch of new creative courses for Pulse Collage in the areas of Film, Gaming and short courses.

Game Design Game:
Game Design is emerging as an exciting area providing new employment opportunities in Ireland. To cater for this demand Pulse launched its innovative part time and full time Game Development Diploma. The distinguishing aspect of the course is that it is designed to follow the production pipeline from initial concept to delivery. Pulse aims to expose students to all areas of Game Development.

Scriptwriting:
Due to the phenomenal success of the Film Course's screenwriting module, Pulse College saw the need to add a Screen Writing Course to the dynamic course range. This course has been developed with the leadership of award winning writer/producer Farah Abushwesha with the aim to provide you with the tools to bring your script ideas to life.

Short Course:
Pulse College has developed a new dynamic range of new short courses, in the areas of Audio, Film and Gaming. With industry professionals on our lecture panel we aim to give practical, hands on courses designed for beginners / hobbyists, job seekers looking to upskill and professionals looking to retrain. See link attached for full listings www.pulsecollege.eu

Pulse Students to Receive Leonardo Grant:
Pulse College are delighted to announce that they have succeeded in securing funding from the Leonardo European Mobility Scheme 2010. This financial support will be used to give the lucky second year students the opportunity for a fully funded work placement in some of the UK's most prestigious digital media companies.

October:
Pulse Announces Short films to be translated onto the Big Screen:
Pulse College were delighted to announce htat the two film treatments by Mark Symmons and Paul Mahon from the full time Film Diploma course, were chosen to be produced into short films. This is part of Pulse College's ongoing commitment to hands on practical experience on all of their courses.

Rock and Roll Freak Circus Show Party Ends a Fantastic Pulse College Year:
As all Pulse students past and present are well aware, every year the first year students put an event pitch together with a theme and plan for the infamous end of year party. This year the proposals were of such a high standard that we took the decision to amalgamate two themes Rock and Roll Circus and Freak Show. Thanks to the talent, planning and coordination, this year's party was a resounding success. Michael Callaghan took the role of lead organiser ensuring every detail was covered.

Film Students help produce TV Ad for Pulse:
With Pulse College striving to give our students real world work experience, we could not think of a better way to advertise the college and the talent of our students than through an ad that was produced in-house. Our Full Time Film students stepped up to the challenge and took on the mammoth task of putting our Pulse TV ad together, which was aired on Sky, MTV and Comedy Central.

Pulse Student Eabha Hennessy receives City and Guilds Bursary 2010:
Eabha Hennessy was the lucky student nominated to receive the City and Guilds Bursary for 2010. Each year, only eight different countries are selected where the bursaries will be made available and Pulse College is proud to be the chosen centre for Ireland, we are delighted for Eabha.

November:
Pulse College Students join forces with the iconic Dionne Warwick for Peace Day:
Pulse College students were given the amazing opportunity to collaborate with such legendary names in the music industry from the iconic Dionne Warwick to Noel Eccles and Julie Feeney in the making of documentary "A Peace of Music". Grá Mór Phonic Records and Tarmak Films embarked on this epic musical documentary shot in Windmill Lane Studios in support of Peace one day.

Ableton & Novation Live Beats Series - Extra Dates added for Windmill Lane Recording!
Pulse College & Windmill Lane are delighted that Ableton and Novation have extended their "Live Beat Event" to include a date in Windmill Lane Recording Studios. After the success of the original Live Beats Series in Europe in September, Ableton and Novation decided to add 2 extra dates in Ireland one of which was Windmill Lane Recording Studios exclusive for Pulse College Students. Thavius and local Ableton and Novation demonstrators were on hand to answer questions and offer tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your software and hardware.

Windmill Lane Seminars Presents "The Mac as a Digital Audio Workstation":
Pulse College / Windmill Lane Recording Studios are delighted with the success of their first in ongoing series of free informative and interactive seminars hosted in Windmill Lane Recording Studios which took place on the 26th of November. The first seminar was entitled "The Mac as a Digital Audio Workstation" with Apple's chief engineer, Chris Jinks. With it being such a success we hope to have practical hands on workshops and seminars on a regular basis to help keep you up-to-date with all the technical trends and industry techniques.

December:
High profile artists choose the iconic Windmill Lane Recording Studios to record tracks:
We can exclusively reveal that the charismatic pop star Lady Gaga was busy recording for her upcoming album "Born this Way" at the iconic Windmill Lane Recording Studios just hours before she was to go onstage for her O2 Dublin Gig. As Ireland waited in baited breath for what was dubbed the concert of the year, the hard working performer was in Windmill Studio laying down the tracks for her new album. She was not the only celebrity to use the state of the art facilities, Westlife and the Kings of Leon's sound engineer took advantage of our expertise.