Twenty Specialist Hair and Media Make-up students from UCB were called on to create 鈥榠njuries鈥� for an anti-terrorism drill in central Birmingham this week.
The emergency services training exercise involved police in full tactical gear and paramedics in bullet-proof vests and helmets treating actors pretending to be victims.
Anna McBartlett, higher education Employability Tutor for UCB鈥檚 Specialist Hair and Media Make-up students, said the 鈥榣ive play鈥� exercise was designed to test the Bullring and Grand Central Station鈥檚 security plans, requiring the students to create realistic wounds.
鈥淗aving to produce special effects like this is a challenge, but one that really improves the students鈥� skills and confidence,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey all thoroughly enjoyed it and relished the chance to put what they are learning at UCB into practice for such a worthwhile exercise, co-ordinated by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.鈥�
The 20 students were overseen by UCB Graduate Teaching Assistants Megan Tate and Olivia Tataryn.
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