Unit name | Making Short Fiction Film |
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Unit code | DRAMM0008 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Jimmy Hay |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
DRAMM0015 Film and Television Production Technologies and Techniques |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Film and Television |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit is based on making short fiction films for public exhibition. Teaching and learning cover:
Students will work in small teams to make short fiction films on a defined theme and within clearly set objectives, leading to an analytical screening and review prior to distribution.
The key element of the unit is the opportunity for students to make a short fiction film. This affords the opportunity for engaging in the characteristic processes of creative work in this field, and to engage in individual and collective creative expression under appropriate guidance and within a supportive critical framework.
The unit will develop skills and awareness in the realisation of short-form fiction, and cover a range of areas, as appropriate to the projects produced in any one year.
These elements may include some or all of :
Students will have solid experiential awareness of key issues in the making of short fiction films, and practical skills enabling them to work at a professional level.
These will be supported by understandings of the wider context for short film, and generic issues in the making of fiction films.
Transferable skills cover research, planning, group work to deadline, and articulation and presentation of ideas in written, verbal, and audio-visual forms.
Lectures, seminars, workshops, student fiction film productions, analytical review.
Evaluation of the completed film undertaken by each student (50%), and the individual contribution to it (50%). The latter is supported by a personal dossier and rationale.
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