CHILDCARE, health and social care, and media make-up students came together to create a mock scene. where students were injured in the course of their work.

The collaboration gave media make-up students the chance to practise special effect techniques which included mock cuts and injuries to the body.

Care students were then able to improvise and tend to the injuries, which seemed very real as the wounds appeared so life-like.

The students worked in small groups and created a range of scenes including one where someone had been injured with a bottle in their stomach.

Media make-up student Georgy Webster said it was a great opportunity to work collaboratively with care students.

She added: “Working on special effects isn’t something we always do so this is a chance for us to practise some very tricky and challenging techniques to bring the scenes to life and make them look as real as possible.

“This is what we would be expected to do if we were working on a professional set.”

One of the childcare students taking part, Annie, also found the experience really helpful and said: “This was a chance for us to put into practise first-aid procedures which we had learnt in the classroom – everything looked so real! It was also interesting to see what other students do on their course and make new friends along the way.”