Creative Practice MArts

Master

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    September

This innovative and unique degree allows you to pursue an interest in a variety of related subject areas such as Professional Writing, Film Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Journalism, Media, and New Media Studies. It aims to develop your critical and intellectual abilities as well as allowing you the opportunity to engage and explore many different areas of creative practice. This combination, a meeting of the critical and the creative, allows you to pursue interconnected themes and ideas within different creative and/or critical fields, or to follow through specific genre or creative practice interests, or to contrast and compare those areas across your degree programme.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: Be able to research their own stories and develop these for future use

Originate their own stories and construct these with all the necessary elements to enable them to be published

Analyse news events and construct their own independent view of each story

Deal with interview situations, both planned and unplanned

Appreciate the different journalistic writing skills for the press, TV and radio

Appreciate the importance of finding, nurturing and developing contacts

Understand and appreciate the need to write copy to length


Creative Studies and Media courses have seen graduates involved in both academe and in industry, including work in:

Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing;
Performance and the Theatre, both on and behind the stage;
Print and/or Broadcast Journalism;
Actors, presenters and in television programme production;
Advertising and the Marketing industries;
Radio, as presenters, as well as in programme production;
Digital, Web and New Media production;
Multi media industries.

We aim to interview all candidates.

300 260 points
We consider mature students with non standard qualifications.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Film Studies
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Media
  • Production
  • Professional Writing
  • Journalism
  • Creative Practice
  • Creative Industries
  • New Media Studies
  • Critical and intellectual abilities
  • Critical and theoretical approaches
  • Hands on creative practice
  • Practice based outcomes

Course programme

What will you study on this course? Modules you might take include: Year 1 Creating Narratives Digital Communication Introduction to Practical Journalism Moving Image Creative Practice Introduction to Theatre and Performance Introduction to Journalism Introduction to Screenwriting Introduction to Media Practice Development of the Moving Image Media Culture Theatre and Performance Intro Years 2 & 3 Practical Digital Journalism Media Practice: Factual Developing Scripted Media Writing for Film and Television Game Design Creative Writing Dissertation Genre Fiction: Theory and Craft Advanced Hypermedia Production Dissertation Final Year Group Project Short Film Pre production Short Film Production Adapting for Film and Media E Publishing. The aim of the fourth year is to increase your aptitude for independent study and increase your employability. With the support of experience staff members you will complete a Masters level independent research project on a topic of your choice. Linked with your research project you will also take modules to equip you with all the skills necessary to carry out a significant research dissertation or piece of creative work.

Additional information

Research and practice Our courses combine elements of research and practice. You have the opportunity to create and produce in all media fields under the supervision of staff that have many years of experience working in the media. We have excellent links with theatre companies, newspapers and the television industry. BBC Wales’ television and radio centre is literally next door, and there are many independent producers nearby. Students will be able to take advantage of the new Pontio centre, which includes a theatre, a cinema, a design and innovation centre, and spacious lecture rooms. Our students play a prominent role in many creative projects, such as Student Cut Films, two student newspapers – Seren and Llef – and a radio station, Storm FM.

Creative Practice MArts

£ 11,750 VAT inc.