Documentary Practices

Course content - 2017 entry

• Stage 1
• Stage 2
• Stage 3

You'll be introduced to the University and the technical workshops and facilities available to you. The first stage includes a range of lectures and seminars and you’ll start to explore your creative practice.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

• Critical Contexts

  This explores the contemporary and historical contexts of media production. Current theories about media, communication and digital cultures will be examined through questioning ideas around representation, time, technologies and storytelling.

• Skills and Development: Documentary Practice

  Allows you to further your knowledge and technical ability within your own documentary practice. Through a series of practical workshops and lectures, you'll cover pre-production and research, budgeting and scheduling, self-shooting and sound recording, interviewing techniques, editing and web based production.

During stage two you begin developing your MA project, evaluating and testing out the aims of your proposal over a sustained period of self-directed study.

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Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

• Production

  Work undertaken in this unit should build on the research questions you initiated and explored in the skills and development unit. This is the period within which you'll undertake the majority of your production work in gathering material for your documentary practice. Within this unit, you may decide to undertake a number of separate 'tasks' with a coherent set of aims or a single project spread across the unit. Throughout the unit, you'll be encouraged to critically reflect on the development of your project.

In the third stage of the course, you'll apply the knowledge gained through your research to create a final body of work.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

• Project Delivery and Professional Context: Documentary Practice

  This allows you to reflect on the work that you've produced so far, and resolve it into a form that allows for completion and delivery of your documentary practice.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages