FT3APF-Advanced Practical Project: Film/TV

Module Provider: Film, Theatre and TV
Number of credits: 40 [20 ECTS credits]
Level:6
Terms in which taught: Autumn / Spring / Summer module
Pre-requisites: FT2P2F Practical Project: Film/TV
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded: FT3DISS Dissertation: Film and Theatre FT3JDFA Dissertation (Art and Film and Theatre) EN3JDX Joint Dissertation English and Film, Theatre and Television (20 credits in each Department)
Current from: 2022/3

Module Convenor: Mr James Kenward-Abdollahyan
Email: j.kenward-abdollahyan@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

This module represents the student's major piece of creative screen work the culmination of the 'critical practice' dimension of the course.

Aims:

The module aims to test the student's ability to apply accumulated skills and knowledge to a major practical, research-based collaborative project with accompanying documentation, which is initiated and developed by a student group under supervision.

Assessable learning outcomes:

By the end of the module students it is expected that students will be able to :

• demonstrate the ability to plan on paper a coherent practical project film, television or mixed media which draws convincingly on critical and theoretical debates and practices encountered elsewhere on the course;


• articulate a clear set of aims, expressed both in terms of creative and critical objectives;


• demonstrate levels of technical skill and achievement appropriate to their project;


• realise a practical project that is internally coherent, systematic and imaginative in its decision making and that is informed by an appropriate critical and conceptual agenda;


• evaluate their project self-critically, analysing both local and systemic levels of decision making, in the light both of independent reading and research and selected examples of theatre, film or television practice.

Additional outcomes:

The processes of production and documentation will encourage a range of outcomes.

Documentation:

appropriate deployment of research using printed and electronic resources critical analysis and coherent argument; presentation of written work using IT; identifying and addressing problems in screen practice; self-evaluation and self-critical analysis.

Production:

practical planning and time management; successful management of the resources involved in production; effective collaboration with a production team, within the constraints and policies of the Department;

the development of IT and technical skills (e.g. digital video editing, lighting design, cinematography).

Outline content:

Students will usually work in small groups, of between two and four members. Each member must have a role that is creative, involves research, and is integral to critical decision making. Written documentation will be completed individually.

During the Autumn Term student groups will meet regularly with their supervisors, identify the nature of their intended project and under supervision will develop detailed plans (including, as relevant, a storyboard, shooting script and set design) for a project which is appropriate in scale, can be achieved within available resources and is informed by a clear and explicit critical agenda. Satisfactory completion of this phase of work will lead to approval of a production schedule.

During the Spring Term students will execute their productions on a schedule agreed by the co-ordinator, and completed screen work will be presented/submitted by specified dates towards the end of term. Supervisors will attendpost-production sessions during this period. Part 2 of the documentation (Evaluation) will be submitted at the beginning of the Summer Term.

Global context:

Working on this module involves researching film and television, andÌýstudents may conduct this research in relation to texts from a range of national / cultural cinemas and television contexts. Films have sometimes been shot outside the UK and completed work has sometimes been shown in festivals in different parts of the globe.

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