Unit name | How Films and Television Programmes Work |
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Unit code | DRAMM0009 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Mr. Metelerkamp |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Film and Television |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Aimed at aspiring professional practitioners, the unit explores the techniques used in fiction film and documentary to make meaning, convey ideas, and create emotional responses. Among the areas covered are:
The key aim of the unit is to offer students the tools to closely examining films as makers rather than as passive viewers, with a view to their being able to become self-directed learners, and to acquire the skills and undersandings available. This requires developing understandings in several overlapping areas:
Students will:
Lectures and seminars, student exercises.
Tabulated and Annotated analytical timeline of feature film or feature-length TV documentary of the students choice (50%)
Tabulated and annotated sequence analysis of a single scene from a film or TV production of the students choice (50%)
Bergman, Ingmar (1989) The Magic Lantern (Penguin)
Leyda, Jay (1984), Film Makers Speak: Voices of Film Experience (Da Capo, New York)
Mackendrick, Alexander ( 2004) On film-making :an introduction to the craft of the director. (London : Faber, 2004
Mamet, David. (1992): On directing film. (New York ; London : Penguin)
McBride, Joseph (ed). c1983 Filmmakers on filmmaking :the American Film Institute seminars on motion pictures and television (Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co)
Powell, Michael (1992) A Life in Movies (Mandarin)