Unit name | Digital Filmmaking |
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Unit code | DRAM30027 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Piccini |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
PERFORMANCE FORMS AND ANALYSIS FILM AND TELEVISION FORMS AND ANALYSIS PRODUCTION SKILLS FOR PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION SKILLS FOR SCREEN PERFORMANCE HISTORIES FILM AND TELEVISION HISTORIES |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Film and Television |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This workshop- and seminar-based unit explores digital video as a mode of production, and digital cinema as an audio-visual form. It focuses on the changes in production practice and film style that have occurred in tandem with the technological changes of the last fifteen years, exploring a range of uses of and responses to recent technologies in modes of production including fiction, documentary, and experimental film and video. The unit encourages students to engage critically with digital technologies, and to incorporate the use of digital video into their intellectual and creative lives. It also aims to familiarise students with a range of digital film-making techniques, and to develop students’ practical skills in areas including camerawork, sound recording, directing, producing, production design/art direction, and post-production.
Aims
Plus as appropriate to the mode of teaching, that is, the combination of seminar and practice-based workshop and/or presentations:
Seminars, workshops, screenings, as appropriate
Optional units may be taught according one of three models, depending on student numbers choosing the option and resource matters. Unit convenors will decide on teaching mode in consultation with HoE and with students in advance of advertising option year-on-year. Contact hours and assessment details will be mapped to teaching mode, as detailed below.
Model A is a seminar-based unit
Model B combines seminars with workshops encompassing an average 30-hour production period
Model C is taught through workshops encompassing an intensive 60-hour production period
Teachers will assign assessments according to the teaching mode employed.
Model A:
4,000-word essay (50%) + student presentation (25%) + 2,000-word write-up (25%), or equivalent.
OR
Model B:
Essay [3,000 words] (33%) +
Workfile (22%): containing evidence to demonstrate student contribution to workshops / practical exercises; contribution to seminars Presentation/performance (22%) Critical analysis [1,500 words] (22%)
OR
Model C:
Workfile (33%): containing evidence to demonstrate student contribution to workshops / practical exercises; contribution to seminars, preparation & execution of technical production role Presentation/performance (33%) Critical analysis [2,500 words] (33%)