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ARTS AND MEDIA 2017/18 SEMESTER 1 MODULES

DEPARTMENT: Arts and Festival Management

MODULE TITLE: The Arts and Festival Management Framework

MODULE CODE: CWP_4_AFM

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Thursday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 1pm – 4pm

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: None

DESCRIPTION OF MODULE

This module introduces students to arts & festival management, the range and diversity of UK and international arts organisations, and issues such as contemporary governance and strategic management practices insubsidised,commercial and voluntary arts & festival organisations. The module identifies the artistic, educational, social, technological, legislative and funding frameworks within which contemporary arts organisations operate, and provides a solid foundation for the Level 4 Arts Work Placement unit as well as for future employment.


MODULE TITLE: Arts and Festival Marketing

MODULE CODE: CWP_4_FMK

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Tuesday


UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



Effective marketing and audience development is a critical factor in a burgeoning landscape of arts, cultural and festival organisations. This module provides an insight into the principles and practices of developing new audiences and sustaining existing audiences in these environments. The underlying imperatives of audience development and arts marketing are explored, as well as the aesthetic contract between artists and audiences, funding criteria and the need to generate earned income. Areas such as barriers to access, the marketing mix, strategic planning, market research, market segmentation, print and online tools, subsidised and commercial funding imperatives and public relations are also included.



MODULE TITLE: Managing Arts Events and Festivals: Planning

MODULE CODE: AME_5_MAE

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Monday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am – 2pm

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20



This module provides students with a practical opportunity to design and plan an arts event, such as an exhibition, concert, club night, screening, artists’ platform or multi-arts event, for a public venue outside the university campus. Students will work in groups toconceptualise, design and plan an event and its presentation to an appropriate audience, within the wider context of contemporary cultural, funding and audience development frameworks. In the Semester 2 module, Managing Arts Events and Festivals Presentations: Production, students will manage, implement and evaluatetheir events.


MODULE TITLE: Law and the Cultural Sector

MODULE CODE: AME_5_LCS

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: TBC

DESCRIPTION OF MODULE TBC



MODULE TITLE: Arts in Education and Community Settings

MODULE CODE: AME_6_ECS

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Friday


UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULEArts in education and community settings is a growing area of professional practice within contemporary arts management. This unit will explore a range of models across the sector in informal and formal environments, across art forms disciplines. The unit will interrogate motivations for community arts, explore philosophical and political approaches, define models of participation and evaluate mechanisms for sustainability.


MODULE TITLE: Contemporary Curation

MODULE CODE: AME_6_CCR

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Wednesday


UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20



Contemporary Curation provides a critical overview of contemporary curatorial practice. The module is broadly in three sections: The first part of the module provides an historical context; examining how the gallery/museum developed in the first half of the twentieth century notably the advent of modernism and the impact of the ‘white cube’. The module then moves onto looking at the pivotal developments in the 1960s that saw a radical change in the way art was produced exhibited and consequently curated. Having established the framework that underpins curatorial practice the module then goes on to look at various trends in contemporary curation including topics such as Relational Aesthetics, installation art, public art, and performance. The module will give students a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing the complex relationship between art, artist, curatorial practice, institutional context, exhibition space and spectator.


DEPARTMENT: Digital Design

MODULE TITLE: Digital Design Fundamentals

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_DDF

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



This module introduces students to the fundamentals of digital media through digital image manipulation, writing and audio practices. They are encouraged to develop a critical awareness of how images carry meaning, explore the relationship between word and image and learn about the expressive power of sound. The module offers students the opportunity to communicate their ideas and express themselves by undertaking a series of set briefs in which they experiment with digital image acquisition and audio capture, editing, composition/design, creative photo manipulation, audio manipulation and syncing. The set briefs also act as a technical introduction to understanding and handling digital media (working with digital libraries, differing file formats, resolution and compression, etc.) and an induction to the range of technologies available for producing digital media. The module allows year 1 students a good solid grasp of digital editing software and a foundation in understanding workflow in digital design projects, as an introduction to modules in semester 2 and years 2 and 3.


MODULE TITLE: Managing Music

MODULE CODE: AME_6_MUS

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20



The UK’s vibrant and diverse musical landscape is made up of a wide variety of organisations specialising in various genres of music. Increasing numbers of companies, venues, and promoters are attempting to locate new talent, identify new means of mediation and target new audiences. This module will assess current practices, frameworks, management structures and outputs in selected companies within the context of the political, economic, social and technological environment in which they operate. The module will also locate the production, distribution and consumption of music, and its perceived value, in relation to key critical theories and debates around musicology and popular culture.



MODULE TITLE: Design for Digital Media

MODULE CODE: AME_4_DDM

SEMESTER: Year-Long (Students must be studying abroad fora FULL academic year)



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULE This module explores the fundamental principles of visual communication and digital design. Focusing on the application of two- dimensional design,including graphics, drawing and illustration, students will be presented with specific briefs to stimulate visual thinking, encourage ideas generation, and promote new approaches to the design


MODULE TITLE: Creative Coding

MODULE CODE: AME_4_CRE

SEMESTER: Year-Long (Students must be studying abroad fora FULL academic year)



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



This module introduces students to the core principles of programming and the creative application of these principles to digital design. Students will develop their understanding of programming by developing a portfolio of practical coding exercises based on the concepts introduced in the module, including programming for drawing/generative graphics, motion, infographics, animation and user interaction. In addition, the module focuses on the software and coding skills required to construct and manipulate new, existing and exciting content online. No previous programmingexperienceisrequired.



MODULE TITLE: Critical Code

MODULE CODE: AME_5_CCD

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULEThis module explores the crucial role which software and code has as the material foundation of digital culture. Drawing on the emerging field of software studies, the module will introduce you to critical concepts in understanding code, interface and information and its impact on culture. Students will have the opportunity to explore this from a theoretical and technical perspective, combining contextual studies with practical skills in programming for digital media.


MODULE TITLE: Moving Image Practice

MODULE CODE: AME_5_MIM

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULE The Study Abroad Team are awaiting this module guide. For further information on this module please contact your provider, or the study abroad team.



MODULE TITLE: Critical Theories of Digital Media

MODULE CODE: AME_5_CTD

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULE This unit explores the critical and cultural contexts for practice in digital and new media art. Students will be introduced to a range of work by media arts practitioners, and encouraged to explore the relationship between theory and practice in their work.


MODULE TITLE: Designing For Interaction

MODULE CODE: AME_5_DSI

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULE The Study Abroad Team are awaiting this module guide. For further information on this module please contact your provider, or the study abroad team.


DEPARTMENT: Film Practice

MODULE TITLE: People and Place

MODULE CODE: AME_4_PEP

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Subject to availability and lab sizes.


This introductory, practice-based module asks students to make two videos: one, a self-portrait, and the other a short documentary/narrative or experimental film of a figure in a landscape on a journey. The first film raises the central question of the module: what is the difference? By thinking about how we see ourselves in relation to how people like us are represented across media platforms, this module introduces students to the mediating effects of representational strategies and technologies. And while ‘the personal’ is one of the module’s concerns, it is not just the idea that our films can be creative expressions of self that we seek to investigate, but also the more complicated idea that our sense of self is already informed by the way other people are represented. The second film is about visualising the many different journeys that are made through time and space. Students will explore the relationship between life journeys and the physical environment, while using the camera as a tool to scan, map, analyse and interpret their world. Informed by filmmaking traditions as varied as the City Symphony, landscape films, experimental cinema and road movies, this Module invites students to get lost in the possible worlds that exist between cinematographic, physical and psychological space


MODULE TITLE: Documentary Theory

MODULE CODE: AME_4_DCT

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULEThis Module explores the history of documentary filmmaking along with the theoretical frameworks that shape our understanding of its claims to represent the world. A 12 week screening programme will introduce students to the major documentary modalities, including those that problematise notions of truth,historyand objectivity. The module will also consider how technological, ideological and aesthetic factors impact upon documentary filmmaking and its reception.



MODULE TITLE: Video Technology

MODULE CODE: AME_4_VTC

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULEThis module provides an introduction to working with digital video cameras, lights, sound and basic editing. Students will light and shoot a short scene consisting of a conversation between two people. In the process students will be introduced to what it means to ‘cover’ a scene, and to the practicalities of editing together sound and image from different shots and different takes.


MODULE TITLE: Cinematography

MODULE CODE: AME_5_CIN

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Tuesday or Wednesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 9am – 12pm (Tuesday) or 1pm – 4pm (Wednesday) 9am – 12pm or 12pm – 3pm

UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Students only attend 1x3hr session per week. Subject to availability and lab sizes.


This unit provides both skills-based training in the use of High Definition (HD) cameras as well as the opportunity to study the techniques and aesthetics of cinematography. Students will be exposed to the particular demands and possibilities of working with High Definition cameras and video, and will be asked to light and shoot scenesaccording to specified aesthetic and dramatic criteria. Students will be encouraged to work from their own scripts as developed in the adjacent filmmaking units, thereby creating a system of feedback where learning outcomes in one unit are fed into another.



MODULE TITLE: Sound on Film

MODULE CODE: AME_5_SOF

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Introductory Sound Recording modules or reasonable equivalent


This module will cover the skills necessary for you to be able to achieve good, clean sound for film. This module provides an overview of these skills which you will then be able to build upon and develop. We will be looking at the whole process involved in producing sound for film: planning and pre-production, location sound and post-production. It is relatively easy to render high quality HD images with even the simplest cameras – it is more challenging to record and mix high quality sound.This module is designed to get you working confidently with music and sound, in order to achieve the best possible marrying of picture and to make most of the intrinsic added value of the good use of sound. Music and sound design for film demands creative and technical planning for good recording, mixing and final sweetening or ‘fairy-dust’ of the soundtrack. Throughout the semester, you will have the opportunity to build on the technical and analytical skills acquired at Level 4, through the production of comprehensive sound and music track design for a film sequence. You are required to work with both source and original sound and music, critically investigating how mood and meaning is constructed through the dialogue between the image and sound tracks.

DEPARTMENT: Film Studies

MODULE TITLE: Reading the Screen:Analysis andDesign

MODULE CODE: FAM_4_RTS

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



This module introduces students to a range of different approaches to the study of film. The module introduces students to a range of narrative and non-narrative forms and offers a basic introduction to film style with a focus on the elements of mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and sound. The emphasis is on providing students with the tools necessary for the detailed and comprehensive analysis and interpretation of film. This module prepares students for the second semester, in which analysis will enter a creative dialogue with different aspects of film theory.



MODULE TITLE: The rise of Cinema: History and Diversity

MODULE CODE: FAM_4_TRC

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



The received opinion of film history is that out of an initial period of incredible diversity of purpose and form arose a ‘dominant’ mode of narrative film which we still see, more or less intact, today. This module will chart this journey in the film’s development, from the late 19th Century to contemporary digital cinema, exposing the diversity and testing some of the central assumptions of text-book film history. The module looks at the historical development of cinema and the film industry from its outset through to the Post World War II era up until today’s digital cinema manifestations.The social and cultural significance of cinema is examined at key points, illustrating how a knowledge of history can deepen our understanding of film texts and contribute to a ‘historiography’ of the moving image.


MODULE TITLE: The Film Auteur: Vision and Style

MODULE CODE: FAM_4_TFA

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



This module will examine the wide-ranging debates related to the film auteur through historical enquiry, theoretical investigation and comparative case studies. Students will explore the fraught relationship between film theory and the concept of the auteur, where the arguments against the film director-as-artist are set against the many instances of extraordinary ‘personal’ style and innovation in the cinematic medium. After exposure to the critical debates, students will analyse a series of case-studies to better understand the auteur in the context of the ‘classical’, the ‘postmodern’ and the ‘world cinema’ auteur. Finally, the module will also update the discussion by considering the impact of digital media on the idea of the film auteur.



MODULE TITLE: Projecting Britain: from the Sixties to the New Millennium

MODULE CODE: FAM_5_PRB

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20



This module examines films from the specified period of British cinema history, with a focus on the films’ representation of economic, political and cultural change in British society. The key question guiding this module is one of how change occurs, and film’s implicit and explicit role in reflecting and commenting on the changes which occurred, as well as those that were thwarted, in Britain during this period. The module introduces students to the British New Wave of the early 1960s, and the radical cinema of the later 1960s and 70s. It investigates the‘Thatcherite’ texts from the 1980s and moves onto the variegated forms of the 1990s. The module examines the role of realism as a predominant style in British cinema and critically analyses works by major, as well as critically overlooked, British directors through close attention to detail paired with wider contextualstudy.


MODULE TITLE: Visions of the City

MODULE CODE: FAM_5_VOC

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20



This module will investigate the relationship between cinema and the city as a vital and dynamic association that stretches back from the earliest days of film to contemporary times. The first section will provide students with a detailed understanding of the main critical debates surrounding modernism in the representation of the modern metropolis, focusing on filmmaking in Germany and USSR between 1924-1933. It will reveal cinema’s dual and contradictory role in offering ‘Distraction’ to urban mass audiences as well as providing spectators with an aesthetic experience of modernity and the city. The second part takes up certain themes identified in modernism and maps them onto cinematic genres through the later 20th and 21st century cinema through a series of cine- urban casestudies.



MODULE TITLE: The City, the Subject andthe DigitalImage

MODULE CODE: AME_6_SDI

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Running for the last time is 2016/17


This module will investigate the relationship between cinema and the city as a vital and dynamic association that stretches back from the earliest days of film to today’s ‘digital cinema’. The module will base its study on the shift from modernist to postmodernist readings and representations of the 20th century city. It will show how the relationship between cinema and the city has habitually been inflected through a discourse of technological and social change and how this carries on into the present digital context. Finally it will critically explore the extent to which digital technologies are impacting both on our notions of subjectivity within urban space, and on its filmic representation.


MODULE TITLE: Third Cinema

MODULE CODE: AME_6_TCN

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Running for the last time is 2016/17


This module will examine the complex nexus of cinema, politics and filmmaking practices that have defined the concept of ‘Third Cinema’ since the 1960s. The focus will be on African, Asian and Latin American models, and will go on to explore the links to contemporary filmic manifestations of political resistance in the West as well as in the developing world. Finally, the module ponders the future of this type of cinema in the light of digital technologies and global competition from ‘Hollywood’. Students will explore the writings and manifestos of the Third Cinema filmmakers themselves and situate these in the light of contemporary critical and theoretical work.



MODULE TITLE: Film and revolution in the developing world

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: TBC

UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20





MODULE TITLE: British film industry now! (professional practicemodule)

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC


UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20



This module offers a detailed and practical survey of the contemporary British film industry, providing students with an understanding of its organisational and funding structure from the 1980s to contemporary times. It will invite outside speakers in various industry roles to provide insights into the professional capabilities required and a snapshot of the current state of the film industry and related sectors. In addition the module offers a summary of the main trends in British Cinema since 2000 in terms of thematics and aesthetics. Students will be required to develop a film idea into a budgeted production package and pitch the idea to a nominal UK funding panel. Consequently, the module provides a chance for students to combine practical and academic knowledge to gain skills and capabilities useable in real world film and media production.



MODULE TITLE: Film and revolution in the developingworld

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC


UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20





MODULE TITLE: British film industry now! (professional practicemodule)

MODULE CODE: TBC

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: TBC


UK LEVEL: 6

UK CREDITS: 20



This module offers a detailed and practical survey of the contemporary British film industry, providing students with an understanding of its organisational and funding structure from the 1980s to contemporary times. It will invite outside speakers in various industry roles to provide insights into the professional capabilities required and a snapshot of the current state of the film industry and related sectors. In addition the module offers a summary of the main trends in British Cinema since 2000 in terms of thematics and aesthetics. Students will be required to develop a film idea into a budgeted production package and pitch the idea to a nominal UK funding panel. Consequently, the module provides a chance for students to combine practical and academic knowledge to gain skills and capabilities useable in real world film and media production.


DEPARTMENT: Photography

MODULE TITLE: Documentary Photography

MODULE CODE: AME_4_DOP

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Tuesday and Wednesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 1pm – 3pm (Tuesday), 10am 2pm (Wednesday)

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Students must attend both sessions; Student must have own Digital SLRCamera

DESCRIPTION OF MODULEIn this module students will work on projects that involve interaction with people and their environment. Students will be introduced to visually exploring the world around them, using photography as a documentary practice to communicate to an audience. Students will be introduced to carrying out primary research into the subjects of the briefs and visual and theoretical research into ways of using photography.


MODULE TITLE: Emergence of Photography

MODULE CODE: AME_4_EOP

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



This module offers a thematic approach to studying histories and theories of photography, from the earliest experiments in the 1830’s to the digital forms of today. Photography refuses any attempt to fix its identity, likewise any narration of the photographic is unstable, contested and in a perpetual state of flux. This story is a multifaceted adventure that takes us to the centre of art and visual culture of the last 200 years. The emphasis is on connections between theory and practice, word and image, and developing students’ abilities to articulate themselves when writing and speaking about images.



MODULE TITLE: Photo Imaging: Studio and Lab

MODULE CODE: AME_4_PSL

SEMESTER: 1


INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Student must have own Digital SLR Camera

DESCRIPTION OF MODULEThis module introduces students to a professional digital work flow, from image capture through to output for screen and print. Through a number of short briefs, based on commercial and editorial commissions, students will develop their skills with digital SLR’s, photographic lighting and digital post production. Students will be introduced to working with both natural light on location, and working in the studio.


MODULE TITLE: Fashion, Editorial and Advertising Photography

MODULE CODE: AME_5_FEA

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Have previous experience of photography, or an art and designbased subject. Students attend both sessions. Student must have own Digital SLRCamera


In this module students will explore the use of digital photography in fashion, editorial and advertising contexts. Students will generate a project and create a portfolio of images, of a conceptual and technical quality suitable for one of these contexts. Skills appropriate for commercial uses of photography will be delivered through workshops in medium format digital cameras, digital post production, and output for web and print portfolios. On completion of the project students will present their portfolio of work to a panel in the format of a portfolio review.



MODULE TITLE: Photography and the Gallery

MODULE CODE: AME_5_PAG

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Photography, Art and Design, or reasonable equivalent.Students attend both sessions. Student must have own Digital SLRCamera

DESCRIPTION OF MODULE In this practice based module students create a body of photographic work for a gallery context. The module examines the wider political, cultural and social context of the galley and explores photography’s relationship to both the gallery and fine art practices. Students produce work of a conceptual and technical quality to be shown in a gallery based exhibition.

DEPARTMENT: Sound Design

MODULE TITLE: Field Recording

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_FRC

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



Thismodulewillintroducestudentstofieldrecordingtechniquesandthe use of different types of microphones to develop an understanding of recording protocols in different locations. The key task for students will be to produce an edited project collated from location recordings that demonstrate their understanding of microphones, and the relationship between sound and the specifics of location. The editing process will introducestudentstobasictechniques,andalsothecleaningupprocess (such as, EQ and dynamics processing). As part of the production process,students will be asked to document their work in a portfolio with detailed notes for each recording session.



MODULE TITLE: Sample and Sequence

MODULE CODE: AME_4_SSQ

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



This module will introduce students to deconstructing and analysis of the key musical concepts of pitch, timbre, rhythm and genre. Students will learn different techniques to edit, process and arrange samples from pre-recorded multi-track arrangements. In doing so they will gain confidence in working with musical material using digital audio workstation software. The module offers students the opportunity to engage with music production and express their ideas in terms of music genre and creative context. The use of pre-recorded multi-track arrangements will act as a technical introduction to the process of layering sounds and handling digital fileformats.


MODULE TITLE: Sound in Context

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_SIC

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULE The module addresses the (re) production and mediation of music, sound, noise and silence in an interdisciplinary and conceptual manner. Students are simultaneously introduced to new academic study skills, such as library research, key text summaries, debate, essay planning and academic writing.



MODULE TITLE: Music Image Text

MODULE CODE: AME_5_MIT

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 5

UK CREDITS: 20


DESCRIPTION OF MODULEMaking connections between music, sound, performance and the moving image, within the intersection of technology, society and subjectivity, students are supported in further developing their analytical, research andwritingskills.The module will thereby be supported in contextualising their production work and to develop study skills towards their final year ResearchProject.

DEPARTMENT: Visual Effects

MODULE TITLE: Introduction to VFX

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_ITV

SEMESTER: 1

INDICATIVE DAY: Tuesday & Wednesday

INDICATIVE TIMESLOT: 9.30am – 1pm (Tuesday) and 10am – 12pm (Wednesday)

UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20

PRE-REQUISITES AND NOTES: Students attend both sessions.


This module focuses on the core principles of Visual Effects in order to provide students with a solid foundation for understanding concepts, creative and technical processes involved in VFX. The module will explore how material is originated and the historical and current workflows adopted by the industry. Having understood key principles, the students are encouraged to explore VFX. Through a range of practical projects a core set of skills will lay the foundation for students to develop an industry focused skill- set. Practical elements equip students with a cohesive set of principals, which underpin some of the core skills. There will also be opportunities to explore the commercial frameworks that surround the current VFX industry.



MODULE TITLE: Post-Production

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_PPR

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



There are two aspects to this module. Firstly students will be introduced to‘thecut’andhowtotellastorythroughtheeditingandpost-production process. Secondly, the basic technical aspects connected to VFX are reviewed. Storytelling is the fundamental reason for producing the VFX shot. Over the twelve weeks ‘the cut’ will be explored, and its influence on the viewer, genre conventions, and the impact photo-real elements can make to the ‘believability’ of the story. Students will be provided with pre- existing footage in order that they concentrate on the editing and post process. Having created a narrative the basics of pre-vis, sound effects, mixing, and colour grading are explained. These will then be applied to the narrative created by the student. The second key focus of the module is to deliver technical knowledge around file formats, codecs, colour principles, resolutions, and post- production workflows for delivery to online, TV and film platforms. The organisation of both assets and data is essential to a fluid workflow and how to approach this will also be explored.The management of this media, and data, allows the compositor to combine the different elements (real world live action, SFX, CG, matte painting and so on) from numerous sources and formats, and to them ‘composite’ them. The historical context in which Post Production operates helps shape meaning, form and structure and informs creative decisions made by editors. Throughout the module related theory will be considered ‘at the point of need’ in order to support the development of a reflective practitioner (Schon, 1995).



MODULE TITLE: The VFX Industry

MODULE CODE: CRT_4_TVI

SEMESTER: 1



UK LEVEL: 4

UK CREDITS: 20



The VFX industry module is concerned with industry and professional practice and the module will provide students with a broad contextual overview of the Creative Industries and the firms that operate VFX facilities, as well as individuals working within these organisations. Having a comprehensive view of how the industry operates, its current and future trajectory, knowledge of the key players and a student’s place within the VFX industry is essential in helping to develop a strategic and successful on-going career. Secondly the module introduces students to workingpractices.It’s increasingly the case that creatives work freelance, going from firm to firm on contracts that may run for many months, therefore these aspects are also considered. Looking at everyday professional practice in connection with the VFX industry in more detail, graduates will be expected not only to have a high level of operational skills but to also be able to trouble shoot and pitch ideas to their team or production manager/VFXSupervisor. How projects are costed and managed is also of importance, as is having an understanding of how long each individual job or task will take. Students need to understand the real costs associated with each VFX shot and find the most appropriate, cost and time efficient way of producing the end result, without loss of quality, and understanding that any one elementmayneedtobechangedatanytime. The module also augments the VFX Fundamentals unit by extending students’ knowledge by giving additional input around personnel involved in the VFX pipeline.

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