The module works as a preparatory period for the main Integrated Research Project in Year 2. Students will define their programme and context while specifying...

Bio-Integrated Design: Scientific Specialisation and Design (BARC0126)

The module works as a preparatory period for the main Integrated Research Project in Year 2. Students will define their programme and context while specifying in detail the overall research aim for the final project. During this term the team of tutors with the help of selected external consultants will be decided, as well as essential laboratory tests that inform the main Research Project. During this period lectures, seminars and Laboratory work will allow student to gain additional skills that are necessary for the Final Thesis.

Anthropology|Creative Arts and Design|Film Studies|History|Media Studies

Module Content

This course provides advanced training in the use of digital media and provides students with a final year opportunity to produce quality...

Ethnographic and Documentary Film Making - Advanced Practice (ANTH0046)

Module Content

This course provides advanced training in the use of digital media and provides students with a final year opportunity to produce quality documentary filmmaking. The course will expand students’ critical skills of film analysis through the practical application and experience of creating a short film and manipulating digital media and equipment to that end. The course is designed for students who have already taken introductory and intermediate film by practice courses. As the entry requirement stipulates, a certain level of technical proficiency is assumed. The focus will be on the development of ideas and developing students' storytelling abilities. The emphasis will be on narrative structure and progression. The goal is to try to create a story that has some development.

Learning Outcomes

The technical skills needed to complete a video project using digital video cameras and simple editing programmes.
	Practical, analytical and intellectual skills in using moving image and sound recording equipment and begin to understand how new technologies create new methodologies.
	Through the hands-on experience of producing a 3-5 minute video project, as well as the preparatory work carried out towards this end during the first part of the term, students will obtain a comprehensive insight to the use of documentary as a form of storytellling.
 

Delivery Method

2-hour group sessions each week usually reviewing camera and editing practical exercises.
	3 hour session usually divided between lecture/screening of clips and discussion that relates to Reading List and practical equipment training.
 

Additional Information

Students will make films in pairs using DSLR cameras and edit using Adobe Premiere Pro.