College students have teamed up with a top designer to build a futuristic movie set.

Artist and production designer Anna Deamer is leading 300 City College Brighton and Hove carpentry and multi-trades students in a project to create an Arts Council-funded film set for an imagined screen version of the cult Brighton novel, ‘Berg’ by Ann Quin.

Deamer wants to raise the profile of Quin, a brilliant but unknown Brighton author.

The installation is planned for exhibition in Brighton Film Festival 2014 to mark the novel’s 50th anniversary.

Anna Deamer said: “I’m excited to be working with City College again on ‘Berg’, especially after the great success of ‘Hangover Square’. I’m so grateful Tom Dowds and his staff are running construction, there’s great team spirit in the workshop and I’m impressed with the way the students have embraced this task, which is technically very challenging. They’re learning fast, and already producing industry standard work.”

Tom Dowds, carpentry team leader at the college in Pelham Street, said: “This is a really excellent project to get the students involved in because it’s giving them a chance to learn film and TV construction techniques with industry professionals, work to a brief and interpret scale drawings and models within a time frame. To get these sorts of skills and hands-on experience will look really impressive on their CVs.”