Unit name | Producing and the Business of Film and Television |
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Unit code | DRAMM0016 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
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 |
This unit has two main objectives: to enable students to acquire the necessary procedural and management skills and understandings successfully to proceed to their dissertation productions, and to enable students to develop industry awareness that will be useful in professional life. Teaching and learning will cover:
The unit will:
1) equip students with a solid and functional understanding of the key issues that face small-scale independent productions.
2) prepare those students proceeding to dissertations by production/practice, with the skills and awareness they need to approach their dissertation projects successfully.
3) expose students to a professional awareness of industrial conventions, and the financial and other structures of the industries for screen media production and distribution. This will be value to all, but in particular to those students proceeding to dissertations by industry placement.
4) enable and require students to engage with professional practitioners
5) offer those students progressing to dissertations by scholarship an enrichment to their understanding of professional processes and forces in the world of film and television production
On completion of the unit students will:
1) have sufficient skills and understandings in the core areas offered to proceed to dissertations across a range of modes
2) have a foundational professional awareness of industry structures, conditions, and norms
3) have transferable skills and understandings in the nature of the professional project development process
4) have demonstrable industry awareness and research skills developed via the case study
Lectures, practical workshops and exercises, with contributions to all from currently active media professionals.
The case study assignment, requiring students to engage with a professional context, is an important learning tool.
While the unit is carefully structured to take all students through the generic conceptual and practical stages of project development for film and television production, it is also sufficiently flexible to meet the needs of different projects, teams, ideas and processes
1) Script breakdown, budget and schedule, of equivalent academic weight to 2000 word essay: required for credit and assessed by pass/fail
2) Individual case study of a professional film or television production of the student's choice, requiring both direct research and contact with industry professionals, and the ability to situate the findings within a broader analysis of forces and trends within the film and television industries. 3000 words: 100%