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JOU3001 – Law and International Media Regulation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Kate Ironside
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Law And International Media Regulation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 50% STD - Law And International Media Regulation, Coursework: 50% STDFF - Law And International Media Regulation (4 Year Programme), Exam: 50% STD - Law And International Media Regulation, Exam: 50%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Journalism;
Description: This module will add to students' legal knowledge and relate that study to an examination of how the media is regulated in the UK and globally. This will include the rights of journalists, protection of journalists, and the role played by trade unions and campaigning organisations.
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JOU3002 – Journalism Practical Project
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Hilary Scott
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: JOU2018
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Journalism Practical Project (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Journalism Practical Project, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Journalism; BA Multimedia Sports Journalism;
Description: The purpose of this module is to facilitate independent creative and critical work in a specified area of journalistic production. It requires students to initiate, discuss and negotiate a body of work for the year, and then to take responsibility for the successful completion of that work to deadline.
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JOU3003 – LAUNCHPAD: Careers in Journalism
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Hilary Scott
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Launchpad: Careers In Journalism (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Launchpad: Careers In Journalism, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Journalism;
Description: This module prompts students to consider a specific role or function within journalism, and to investigate how this might become a future career path. Teaching and learning requires students to research and critically reflect on the structure of the sector and their personal intentions and professional development.
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JOU3015 – Launchpad: Careers in Sports Journalism
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Hilary Scott
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: WBLFF - Launchpad: Careers In Sports Journalism (Work Based Learning) (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% WBL - Launchpad: Careers In Sports Journalism (Work Based Learning), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Sports Journalism;
Description: This module prompts students to consider a specific role within sports journalism, and to investigate how this might become a future career path. Teaching requires students to research and critically reflect on the structure of the sector and their own intentions and professional development.
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JOU3016 – International Sport and the Media
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Adrian Warner
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - International Sport And The Media, Coursework: 40% STDFF - International Sport And The Media (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 40% STD - International Sport And The Media, Exam: 60% STDFF - International Sport And The Media (4 Year Programme), Exam: 60%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Sports Journalism;
Description: This module enables students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the origins, development and expansion of the contemporary sports media business and its relationship with the governing bodies of national and international sport and media regulation. In particular, the commercialisation of sport and sports rights will be examined.
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JOU3019 – Multiplatform Journalism
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Robin Britten
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: JOU2031 or JOU2026
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Multiplatform Journalism, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Multiplatform Journalism (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Journalism; BA Multimedia Sports Journalism;
Description: This module is the principal module for Multimedia Journalism students. The focus is on establishing and managing a local journalism newsroom with outputs on digital, radio and television. Students will submit a portfolio providing evidence of their journalistic contributions during the period of the project.
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JOU3020 – Future Trends in Journalism
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Hilary Scott
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Future Trends In Journalism (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Future Trends In Journalism, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Journalism; BA Multimedia Sports Journalism;
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine the development of future trends in journalism. Journalism has undergone several waves of significant change, such as the emergence of digital journalism, social media, and data journalism, this module aims to critically examine those changes and critique emerging future trends.
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JOU4001 – Journalism Dissertation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Hilary Scott
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: JOU2027
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Journalism Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Journalism Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Multimedia Journalism; BA Multimedia Sports Journalism;
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide an opportunity for students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading and/or practice activities on their own initiative.
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MED3017 – Global Television
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Lorna Jowett
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Global Television, Coursework: 100% STD - Global Television, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module examines the role of television within an increasingly globalised media economy, analysing the relationship between television production, marketing and distribution on one hand and the rise of global media conglomerates seeking international audiences on the other.
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MED3022 – Group Production Project: External Brief
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Roy Wallace
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: MED2074 and MED2080
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Group Production Project: External Brief (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to to allow students to operate in a simulated working professional environment. The focus is therefore on development of professional skills through working practices which will be reflected in the production of suitable materials for the clients.
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MED3036 – Contemporary Hollywood
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Mike Starr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Contemporary Hollywood (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine Hollywood filmmaking since the 1980s as a response to changing social, cultural and ideological conditions in contemporary society.
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MED3046 – Advertising and Commercial Film Production
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Nathan Dodzo
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Advertising And Commercial Film Production, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Advertising And Commercial Film Production (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme);
Description: Students are encouraged to engage with the commercial world and to work in teams that replicate industrial practice for the production of 'promotional' material. The emphasis is on group development of ideas and working in groups creating TV commercials and longer short form promotional films for the industry.
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MED3047 – Live TV Production
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Nathan Dodzo
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Live Tv Production, Coursework: 100% STD - Live Tv Production, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module provides an opportunity for students to research, plan, produce, negotiate and stream `live? an agreed major project with a particular focus on legislation, copyright, production and distribution. Students will develop their portfolio of work and `showcase? a project as part of a studio based production group.
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MED3048 – Individual Project
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Tim Coley
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Individual Project (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module is intended to facilitate independent creative and critical work in a specified area of media production. It requires students to initiate, discuss and negotiate a body of work for the year, and then to take responsibility for the successful completion of that work to deadline.
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MED3052 – Community Impact Project
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Andrew Cooper-James
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Community Impact Project, Coursework: 100% STD - Community Impact Project, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production;
Description: The purpose of this module is to experience small production teamworking, through researching an appropriate community project (charity, voluntary project or social enterprise) requiring Media Production or Creative Industry support in the delivery of a media related Community Impact Initiative with measurable results related to the changemaker ethos.
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MED3054 – Working in the Creative Industries
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Jez Alsop
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Working In The Creative Industries, Coursework: 100% STD - Working In The Creative Industries, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module explores the routes to gainful employment opportunities available within the creative sector through setting up or working in a limited company, Social Enterprise, or as a Freelancer. Students will develop and reflect on their professional identity and transferable skills supporting their chosen career path.
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MED3056 – Cult Media
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: David Simmons
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Cult Media, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine conventions, structures and cycles of `cult? media and how such media relates to social and cultural concerns and contexts.
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MED3060 – Global Screens
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Mike Starr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Global Screens (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Global Screens, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme); BA Film & Screen Studies; BA Film & Screen Studies (With Foundation Year);
Description: Expanding on the European cinemas module in both scope and sophistication, this module provides historical, cultural and industrial contexts that will allow students to view, discuss and interpret screen media from a number of International cinemas and national cultures as well as the implications of transnational productions.
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MED3062 – Cult Media
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: David Simmons
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Cult Media, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Cult Media (4 Year Course), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme); BA Film & Screen Studies; BA Film & Screen Studies (With Foundation Year);
Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to critically examine and evaluate conventions, structures and cycles of `cult? media and how such media relates to wider social and cultural concerns and contexts.
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MED3063 – Hollywood and Beyond
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Mike Starr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Hollywood And Beyond (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Hollywood And Beyond, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme); BA Film & Screen Studies; BA Film & Screen Studies (With Foundation Year);
Description: Building on the level 4 Introduction to Hollywood module, in this module students will extend their understanding of Hollywood filmmaking from the mid-1970s to present day. Through close analysis and specific case studies, students will critically examine how Hollywood reflects, comments upon, and actively helps shape our understanding of contemporary social and cultural realities.
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MED3064 – Contemporary Crime on Screen
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Abigail Webber
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Contemporary Crime On Screen, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Contemporary Crime On Screen (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Film & Screen Studies; BA Film & Screen Studies (With Foundation Year);
Description: This module encourages students to investigate screen depictions of crime across a range of genres including film, television drama, real-life crime and documentary, and to consider the significance of the social, historical and psychological contexts in which it has evolved.
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MED3065 – Advanced Scriptwriting
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Abigail Webber
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: MED2126
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Advanced Scriptwriting, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Advanced Scriptwriting (With Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production; BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top Up); BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (4 Year Programme); BA Film & Screen Studies; BA Film & Screen Studies (With Foundation Year);
Description: This module develops student's screenwriting abilities to produce work to a rigorous professional standard, through analysis and practice of the processes of screenwriting, pitching, commissioning and script editing within the television and streaming industry.
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MED3900 – Industry Investigation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Ashley Booth
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 39LV - Industry Investigation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students with an opportunity to undertake an individual detailed investigation of their own choice from a range of different perspectives into a current debate or topic within the Creative Industries.
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MED3901 – Promotional Portfolio (Digital Film & TV Production)
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Sean Ponzini
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 39LV - Promotional Portfolio (Digital Film & Tv Production), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to consider and reflect on their career aspirations, examine their specialist skills as a filmmaker, their broader creative skills and how they can be used and enhanced to launch and sustain themselves within their desired future careers.
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MED3902 – Major Digital Film & TV Production
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Tony Ealey
Credit Value: 50
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 39LV - Major Digital Film & Tv Production, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to research, participate in, and reflect upon, the planning, creation and delivery of a complex moving image product which follows industry standards and expectations to the parameters of an outline brief.
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MED4028 – Media, Film and Screen Studies Short Dissertation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Mike Starr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Media, Film And Screen Studies Short Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest from the area of media, film and screen studies. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading or practice activities on their own initiative.
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MED4029 – Media, Film and Screen Studies Dissertation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Lorna Jowett
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Media, Film And Screen Studies Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop, at length, a particular interest from the area of media, film and screen studies and to apply the research, evaluative, analytical and organisational techniques learnt during their degree to a major research project.
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MED4031 – Media Project and Dissertation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Lorna Jowett
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Media Project And Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop, at length, a particular interest from the area of media production and screen studies resulting in a practical production and a written dissertation.
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MED4033 – Film & Screen Studies Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation A
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Mike Starr
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: Compulsory Level 5 research modules from appropriate Award Map
Co-requisites: A joint dissertation module in a second subject must be taken with this module.
Assessment: STD - Film & Screen Studies Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation A, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop, at length, a particular interest from the area of media, film and screen studies and their other joint subject.to apply the research, evaluative, analytical and organisational techniques learnt during their degree to a major research project.
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MED4034 – Film & Screen Studies Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation B
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Lorna Jowett
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: Compulsory Level 5 research modules from appropriate Award Map
Co-requisites: A joint dissertation module in a second subject must be taken with this module.
Assessment: STD - Film & Screen Studies Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation B, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop, at length, a particular interest from the area of media, film and screen studies and their other joint subject.to apply the research, evaluative, analytical and organisational techniques learnt during their degree to a major research project.
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MED4036 – Media, Film & Screen Studies Dissertation
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Lorna Jowett
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Media, Film & Screen Studies Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Media, Film & Screen Studies Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of the dissertation module is to allow students to develop, at length, a particular interest from the area of Film and Screen studies, and to apply the research, evaluative, analytical and organisational techniques learnt during their degree to a major research project.
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MED4037 – Final Major Project
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Andrew Cooper-James
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Final Major Project, Coursework: 100% STD - Final Major Project, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production;
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to develop a progressive and impactful media artefact and writing, based on thorough critical research into an area of personal interest within creative film, television and digital media production.
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MED4900 – Digital Film and TV Showcase
Field: FILM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Co-ordinator: Sean Ponzini
Credit Value: 30
Level: 6
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 39LV - Digital Film And Tv Showcase, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module gives students the opportunity to reflect on the breadth of their filmmaking skills, understanding and talent they have developed and to individually develop work that showcases their strengths, versatility and creativity. The development process and final presentation will be informed by, and reflect, industry expectations and standards.