Film and Broadcast Production - BA (Hons)

This module offers students the opportunity to learn through engagement with practical projects in the studio. At the end of this module the student will have completed a substantial piece of work. In doing so, they will have travelled a journey through a production process that typically includes pre-production, experimentation, development and resolution.

The module offers a sequence of three intensive programmes or ‘mini-blocks’, tailored to the interests of specific groups of students. The module engages the student in thinking about their subject area, how it is defined and practiced, the richness of its resources, and how it opens up questions of context. In particular the module investigates how context might be framed, for example culturally, historically, economically, socially, theoretically or through practice. Students are encouraged to see connections and reflect on what they see in ways that build skills of communication and help articulate ideas. The module also helps the student, through learning how to identify, access and use knowledge profitably, to become knowledgeable about their subject area, its extent, its language and conventions, its history and practice.

This module introduces students to the critical and reflective viewing of film & television using established and appropriate methods of analysis. Students are introduced to and develop skills in media analysis. They also develop an understanding of the contexts in which media forms, styles and exhibition practices have developed.

This module introduces the skills, tools and methods that form the foundations for future practice as an animator, filmmaker or music technologist.

This module offers students the opportunity to learn through engagement with practical projects in the stu-dio, to work with others in a collaborative way and to engage with issues that contextualise their practice. At the end of this module the student will have completed a substantial piece of work. In doing so, they will have travelled a journey through a production process, worked with other people and engaged with issues and external stakeholders.

The module offers a sequence of three intensive programmes or ‘mini-blocks’ tailored to the interests of specific groups of students. It provides a range of studies that address the character and conditions of cultural production including how they operate in practice. The module helps to prepare the student for their final-year dissertation and their future role as professionals and practitioners. The student encounters different perspectives on their subject area and undertakes different forms of coursework aimed at helping inform their choice of dissertation topic and approach.

This module develops students’ critical abilities in the analysis of film & television forms and texts, the cir-cumstances of their financing, production, distribution and exhibition in the economy and society. It encourages students to apply what they have learned from this analysis. It also develops the ability of the student to critically evaluate the film and television labour market.

This module develops the skills, tools and methods for future practice as an animator, filmmaker or music technologist. Further, students will be encouraged to experiment and to refine their choices of techniques and tools for different purposes.

The module is framed in terms of a dissertation. The student undertakes an enquiry into a topic of his or her own choice and, based on this enquiry, develops an extended critical study. The module involves individual supervision designed to support the student’s ambitions and confidence in becoming an independent learner, building on techniques and knowledge developed in previous years, and providing scope for initiative and development. The dissertation demonstrates the student’s ability to thoroughly research a topic, use appropriate methods of investigation, and work methodically and productively.

This module comprises two key elements.

This module is studied alongside its companion module Project Development Workbook, towards the Major Studio Project.

The purpose of this module is to permit intellectual and practical development, to a graduate level, of the skills, tools and methods of a professional-standard animator, filmmaker or music technologist in order to undertake and realise a major studio project in the parallel module MD6002 Major Studio Project. Working independently, under supervisory guidance, students will be encouraged to experiment, and question taken-for-granted ways of seeing and making and to think critically about the audience.