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Pulse College is nominated to be City and Guilds Bursary Centre for Ireland |
 Pulse College are delighted to announce that they are set to be the first college in Ireland to be nominated by the City & Guilds International Foundation to become a City & Guilds Bursary centre. Each year, only eight different countries are selected where the bursaries will be made available and Pulse College is proud to be the chosen institution for Ireland. This will allow Pulse College to put forward worthy students who may be under pressure financially, to have their college fees funded through the Bursary programme.
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Chris McCabe Reviews new Pulse Screenwriting Course |
 Having recently launched our contemporary screen writing course with the guidance of award winning writer Farah Abushwesha, we sent Chris McCabe along for a neutral perspective on what we hope should to be a great addition to Pulse College.
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Diary of a Leonardo Intern from Lorcan Dunne |
 After the success of last month's diary of an intern, Pulse News got another opportunity to get the inside scoop on what it's like to work with iconic actors and award winning directors. Lorcan was placed in the cutting edge, Mill Studio and tells us all about his experience working with the legendry William Hurt and the beautiful Isabella Rossellini.
"Hi, my name is Lorcan Dunne and I'm on the full time film course. During my work placement in the UK, I spent a week on the film set of Late Bloomers and one week in The Mill, a world renowned Post Production company, based in Soho, London."...
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Pulse Announces Exciting Summer of Creative Courses In Audio, Gaming and Film |
 Pulse College are pleased to announce their cutting edge creative media courses set to take place throughout the summer in Audio, Gaming and Film. If you would like to kick start you career in this fast paced growing industry log on to our website www.pulsecollege.eu. Click below for more info.
Pulse has a renowned list of high profile experts, Many of whom have interesting and varied careers, who regularly lecture on our courses. In this section of our news letter we aim to delve into their background to get tips on how to succeed in the professional environment.
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Noel Quinn: Guest Lecturer Profile |
 Noel Quinn has been involved in the film business for almost forty years. He has worked on high profile feature films, documentaries, and commercials in Ireland and Australia. Noel's sound credits include Michael Collins, Veronica Guerin, Laws of Attraction and The Honeymooners; in 1989 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Noel has lectured extensively on film sound in Ireland and is one of Pulse College guest lecturers for location sound. We take an in-depth look on what life on location in some of the world's most exotic destinations and find out if it really is as glamorous as it sounds.
Q1: Tell us a bit about yourself background where you're from etc.
I was born and raised in Stillorgan in a family of three boys and three girls. I hated going to school, I went to primary and technical school. My Dad was a self educated man and he always emphasised the importance of education.
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4th Annual Dingle Film Festival a Roaring Success |
 Dingle Film Festival 2010 returned by popular demand and this year was bigger and better that ever. In its 4th year running it was once again a huge success with sun shining and celebrities out in force. The decision to move the date from September to March, turned out to be a wise one and as a result double the festival attendance. This allowed the organisers to expand this year's event, enabling the festival to screen several Irish films which attracted a major attendance from the Irish film industry.
Cillian Murphy(Batman Begins, Red Eye) opened the event with Perrier's Bounty; Stephen Frears(The Snapper, The Queen) was presented the Gregory Peck Award from Ned Dowd (Last of The Mohicans); Head of RED Europe, Alan Piper came to Dingle, along with Laura Castelli of Assimilate, Eugene McCrystal and Kevin Smart from HoloVis.
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Alternative Radio station BBC6 proves its value and sweeps the board at Sony awards |
 The threatened alternative music station BBC 6 defies its sceptics and proves there that there is room for an alternative music station, as it emerges victorious at the industry's top awards ceremony. The winners of the 27th annual Sony Radio Academy Awards, the UK's most prestigious radio accolades, were announced at London's Grosvenor House Hotel with BBC 6 coming out on top.
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