World's biggest creative technology group opens global HQ in Oxford

3rd February 2012

SAE Institute has officially opened its world headquarters at its largest campus to date in Oxford.
HRH the Duke of York was invited by SAE Institute to attend the opening as the guest of honour and was accompanied by the British High Commissioner to Australia, His Excellency Paul Madden on a tour of the facility.
His Royal Highness was invited to unveil the plaque that officially declared the new state of the art world headquarters of SAE Institute open.

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SAE Film Making Senior Lecturer, David Hawkins, to Release No-Budget Feature Film

27th October 2011

Bound by Blue is the début feature film from SAE Film Making Senior Lecturer, David Hawkins, and fellow Australian Filmmaker, Kate Talbot.

Following a simple philosophy of making the most of all available resources to create a high-end production with no actual budget, they embarked on a somewhat unconventional production process. The film tells a rather unique Australian narrative, which creates the bang and sizzle of funded film through the utilisation of 30 locations, 50 key cast, 100 extras and upward of 50 volunteer industry-professionals working across 4 & 1/2 months of filming. All highlighted by the stunning backdrop of the Melbourne skyline.

Bound by Blue is due for release in early 2012. For updates, sneak previews, and insider goss be sure to "Like" the Bound by Blue page here.

SAE Student finalist in the Guardian Student Media Awards 2011

25th October 2011

Big congratulations to SAE London student, Rajan Zaveri, who has been chosen as a finalist for the Guardian Student Media Awards 2011.

Rajan, who is currently studying Digital Journalism at SAE Institute London, focuses on the social and cultural interests of a community both locally in the U.K and internationally, with recent projects in Croatia, Bosnia and Egypt. 

“My goal is to become a successful Travel and Conflict Photographer. We now have the ability to find out what is happening anywhere in the world with the touch of a button in the safety of our own homes. This is something that I aspire to do, providing a better picture of what is happening around the world, of different cultures and societies, people and places." - Rajan Zaveri

EMP LIVE - SAE London's New Club Night!

15th September 2011

On the 5th of October SAE London is taking over one of the hottest new venues in East London, The Nest, for the launch of the bi-annual EMP LIVE DJ club night. EMP LIVE aims to provide a platform for SAE London's students by showcasing their skills in a true electronic music club environment.

The Nest, which only opened in late 2010 has already seen the likes of Moby, Chase & Status, Plump DJs, Mighty Mouse, CocknBullKid, Benji B and many more.

This is a free event and one not to be missed, so come down to check out the emerging talent from SAE London from 9pm onwards.

For more information, updates and to RSVP click here.

See you there!

SAE Graduate Film Selected for the 7th Action on Film Festival

14th September 2011

The international film festival which takes place in Pasadena, California was named 'One of the Top 25 Festivals Worth the Fees' by MovieMaker Magazine in 2009 and gives film makers, writers and producers the opportunity to showcase their films, short films, documentaries and other projects.

Part of this year's festival was the psycho-drama 'Losing Unconsciousness', written, produced and directed by recent graduate Tim Hyde; a project that exhibits not only our students talents, but also the successful collaboration of various SAE London audio, film and animation students and staff members, including Daria Fissoun (film), Michael Wilson (audio), Andrea Iacopini (audio) and Alex Piglowski (animation).
You can watch the film here.

New Electronic Music Production Lecturer

13th September 2011

SAE Liverpool is proud to welcome James Rand to our lecturing team.

James will head up the Electronic Music Production course here in Liverpool.

James Rand has been a notable player on the Liverpool club circuit. Originally as a resident at garage punk and electro hybrid EVOL and later at the legendary Liverpool institution Chibuku Shake Shake, his style of mutant techno with pop sensibilities has seen him set the stage for the likes of Andrew Weatherall, 2 Many DJs, Erol Alkan, Jaques Le Cont, Joy Orbison and Rob Mello at such venues as Fabric, Parklife Festival and Lock Tavern.

James currently holds three Liverpool based residencies at Chibuku, EVOL and Peacock.

Miss Glasgow

13th September 2011

The Miss Glasgow beauty competition is now in its 5th year and SAE Glasgow has been selected as the group in charge of interviewing the finalists and filming the event, to be held in October, 2011.

The students from SAE Glasgow will be bringing each finalist in to the college to film the interviews against the college’s green screen, with the videos being uploaded to the ‘Miss Glasgow’ website. On the evening of the event, the students will be filming the contest in HD, as they perfect their skills of live event recording.

Producer Sessions Live - Amazing Weekend!

13th September 2011

An amazing weekend was had by all at this years Producer Sessions Live held at SAE London. The two day event, held in association with Future Music, Computer Music and Absolute Music, featured tutorials from some of the biggest names in the industry including:

Danny Byrd

Dave Spoon

Steve Mac

Nu:Tone

Kid Massive

Artful Dodger

.... and many more

In additional to this, attendees were able to get hands-on with some of the latest studio equipment with exhibits from the likes of Avid, Yamaha, Moog, Ableton, Genelec, SSL, sE Electronics, Pro Tools, Shure, Propellerhead, Source Distribution, Euphonix, Korg and many more!

A massive thank you to all involved and everyone that attended.