Arts and Festival Management Accounting and Finance for the Arts BAF_4_AFA Monday 9am 1pm The module is designed to introduce students to Accounting and Finance with special reference to the Arts. Following initial introductory work on producing basic financial statements, the emphasis will then move on to interpreting and using the financial information these statements provide. Published financial reports from dance, theatre, music and other arts organisations will be drawn on to contextualise the module for this particular learnergroup. Arts and Festival Management Outdoor Festival Logistics AAP_4_OFL Friday 1pm 4pm A thorough understanding of the technical requirements for outdoor festivals and events is critical for the modern day arts and festival manager. This module provides an understanding of the technical requirements of the stage and its associated infrastructure as well as the operational feasibility for providing appropriate on-site logistics for festival and event goers. The module includes an introduction to operational considerations such as staging, managing electrical equipment and sound, as well as maintaining toilets, water points, catering outlets, and all aspects of health and safety regulations. Students will also consider the environmental impacts of the contemporary festival.
Arts and Festival Management The Arts Policy Framework AME_4_APF Thursday 10am 1pm This module provides an introduction to the structure and formation of contemporary Arts Policy at local, national and international levels, and the key debates that underpin policy making. The module will examine the role of key governmental agencies such as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Arts Council England. The module also includes consideration of the importance of cultural diversity and leadership within arts policy. Arts and Festival Management Managing Arts Events and Festivals: Production AME_5_MEP Tuesday 11am 5pm Managing Arts Events and Festivals: Planning, or reasonable equivalent. This module builds on the research and planning activities of Managing Arts Events and Festivals: Planning and enables students to manage, implement and evaluate the arts event they designed in Semester 1. Students will be able to apply their theoretical learning to the practical experience of managing and evaluating an arts event. They will gain practical experience of working with a range of art professionals, artists across a range of art forms, venues, technical staff, box office staff, funders as well as audiences.
Arts and Festival Management Modern Museum & Gallery Practice AME_5_MMG Wednesday 10am 1pm This module seeks to answer this and other related questions by examining contemporary British and international museum and gallery practices. The module charts the evolution of the museum from the Louvre in 1793 to the present day, focussing on the major changes that have transformed museums since the 1980s and the debates that have underpinned these changes.specifically the module explores the artistic, educational, social, cultural and political purposes of museums and galleries and the issues involved in developing, presenting, interpreting, contextualising and promoting collections and exhibitions for culturally diverseaudiences. Arts and Festival Management Performing Arts Management AME_5_PAM Monday 9am 4pm This unit examines management practices in a wide range of contemporary performing arts organisations, including theatres, dance companies and music organisations. Students will expand their knowledge and understanding of the unique nature of artistic and creative vision, the manager s role in nurturing and facilitating the artistic product, the programmer s need to build and develop audiences and the creativity required in planning, deploying and accounting for the use of resources. Students will also enhance their abilities to interrogate the critical and management frameworks within which decisions are made in the performing arts. As part of this module, you will examine two case studies (the Gate Theatre and Soho Theatre). You will attend a performance and teach theatre as part of your course schedule.
Arts and Festival Management Arts and Festival Fundraising AME_6_AFF Wednesday 10am 1pm UK LEVEL: 6 Arts fundraisers, whether professionals or volunteers, face significant challenges at a time when an increasing number of organisations are competing for funding in a very competitive market. This module provides the skills, knowledge and understanding that an arts manager requires to successfully perform in their first job, whether fundraising from individuals, trusts and foundations, private businesses, European, central and local government or through events. The module examines the wider cultural, political, technological, social, environmental and economic context of fundraising, key challenges and trends, and covers fundraising principles, ethics, strategies, techniques, financial planning, funding sources, and the implementation and evaluation of a strategy. Digital Design Digital Storytelling AME_4_DST Monday 1pm 5pm The Study Abroad Team are awaiting this module guide. For further information on this module please contact your provider, or the study abroad team.
Digital Design Researching Digital Design CRT_5_RDD The Study Abroad Team are awaiting this module guide. For further information on this module please contact your provider, or the study abroad team. Film Practice Documentary Practice AME_4_DPR Thursday 10am 5.30pm Subject to availability and lab sizes. In this Module students will conduct research into a documentary subject, collaboratively develop and produce a short documentary film, and reflectively engage with documentary practice through theory. The Module explores theoretical and methodological frameworks that shape our understanding of documentary practice and reception, including the nature of documentary s truth claims and the work of audiences in deciphering such claims. Students will be asked to respond to the major documentary modes, and to reflect through their filmmaking on the relationship between their documentary subject and their method.
Film Practice Editing and Montage AME_4_EMN Tuesday 9am 5pm Subject to availability and lab sizes. This Module offers both practical training in the use of editing and effects software (Adobe Creative Suite), and seminars that explore the history and theory of montage. Practice and theory are linked in this Module in such a way that students are able to explore editing techniques while thinking conceptually about what editing means in different contexts. In addition to facilitating students development of practical skills, this Module will introduce students to different theoretical and ideological approaches to editing, from the political formalism of dialectical montage, to the poetics of collage, and the suturing instinct of continuity editing. Film Practice Literature into Film AME_6_LIF Thursday 9am 1pm UK LEVEL: 6 Introduction to Literature This advanced unit gives students the opportunity to examine the transition from the written to the visual text, and includes a range of literary and filmic periods and genres. The unit focuses on the ways in which written and visual texts share a background in narrative theory. Students learn how to apply narrative and film theory, as well as theorizing the relationship between the written and the visual.
Film Studies Reading the Screen:Theory and Aesthetics (Adapted) FAM_4_RST Tuesday 1pm 5pm This module develops and builds on the content covered in Reading the Screen: Analysis and Design and introduces students to a range of theoretical approaches to the study of film. It introduces students to the role of film theory as a criteria to understand and analyse movies. The module concentrates on a selection of Anglo-American and European film theory strands and narrative theory. There will be screenings of films throughout the module to explore the complex and meaningful dialogue between the analysis of film form and aesthetics and various theoretical approaches. Film Studies World Cinema: Origins and Forms FAM_4_WCO Wednesday 9am 3pm This module looks at the historical and formal development of film and the cinema industry from the perspective of World Cinema. It considers the significance of film from around the globe (E.g. Eastern Europe, Japan, Latin America, Africa, India) and charts the development of a global film industry. The module follows the historical methodology signalled in the preceding Rise of Cinema: Europe and America unit and aims to widen the theoretical and analytical focus to instances of national cinemas that have provided a significant challenge and alternative to dominant Western modes of narrative and representation.
Film Studies Film Curating and Reviewing This module introduces students to concepts and practices of both film reviewing in a number of contexts, and film curation, including archiving. It will outline the milieus of the film review in relation to other areas of film writing such as film criticism and film theory, and provide students with anopportunitytopracticefilmreviewingbypublishingtoastudentowned blog on the WordPress platform. In addition, the module will explore film curation and the role of the film curator within the spaces of the art gallery as well as the wider film industry. It will chart the changes that have occurred in film programming over the past decades and explore the important contribution of film festivals to the production industry, and the role of the film archive in a digital context. As part of the module, students will gain experience in programming an original idea of their own for a film festival or curation event. Film Studies European realisms:italy and France Subject to availability and lab sizes. This module will explore the cultural, historical and material factors that contributed to the importance of Neorealist films in post-war Italian cinema one of the most influential film movements in cinema history. It will go on to reveal the profound connections between this movement and the subsequent cine-revolution in France represented by the French New Wave. Students will analyse a range of Neorealist and New Wave films in relation to their cultural and historical context, and place them within critical debates on film form, national cinema and identities. Students will gain a thorough insight into the relation between theory and practice in these two innovative movements, and go on to discover the lasting legacy for contemporary cinema.
Film Practice American cinema: Hollywood and independents AME_5_AHI The aim of this Module is to introduce students to the history and development of American Cinema. It will allow students to extend their knowledge and understanding of the growth of the film industry and their interpretation of image and meaning in film gained at Level 4. The Module will focus on key aspects of Hollywood Cinema including production, distribution, exhibition and audiences. It will go on to explore the relationship between Hollywood and Independent American Cinema and explore the latter in terms of an alternative representational mode to Hollywood. Students will also be given the opportunity to view a wide range of Hollywood and Independent films and to critically evaluate such films in relation to the major themes of the Module Film Practice Critiquing gender and sexuality inthe movies This module examines developments in the cinematic representation of gender and sexuality from classical Hollywood cinema to present day mainstreamfilm.it will initiate its critical focus in the early 1970s feminist interventions that not only began a wholesale reappraisal of the cinematic canon but also developed a theoretical corpus that addressed fundamental issues of women s identity in society, representation in the media, and spectatorship in cinema. Students will encounter a number of critical approaches particularly psychoanalysis, semiotics, and queer theory that were developed to explore the complex issues of gendered and sexual identity and the relationship between representation and politics.
Film Practice Screenwriting This module asks students to write an original 10-minute screenplay for a short narrative based drama.students will explore the nature of narrative screen drama, the importance of research and development in generating new ideas, while considering the relationship between the script and the screen. Students will consider the importance of structure, plotting and setting, learn the difference between exposition and dialogue, while also thinking about such matters as point of view and mise-en-scene as narrational tools. Film Studies The British Film Industry 1980 - Present AME_6_BCI Wednesday 10am 1pm UK LEVEL: 6 Running for the last time is 2016/17 This module offers a survey of the British film industry, exploring both its historical construction since 1980 and contemporary manifestation in terms of film form and industrial structure. With the help of outside speakers it enables students to understand not only the basics of certain professions within the industry (from writing and directing to acting and producing), but how those professions operate in the current global marketplace. The module promises an unusual combination of industry- based and academic experiences covering various aspects of the film industry, and while not intended as vocational training it nevertheless provides a unique opportunity to intimately explore the industry and to gain a careers awareness. Diversity is addressed in this module in the film extracts and issues chosen for class discussion, particularly in relation to issues of representation in British cinema and to the composition of the film industry.
Film Studies Contemporary cinema and digital futures UK LEVEL: 6 This module will focus on contemporary cinema from across the globe to provide students with a flavour of current trends in terms of themes and aesthetics. It will cover the development of CGI cinema as the most recognizable form of digital cinema in the popular imagination, but will expand the definition to encompass diverse genres, forms and national cinemas to afford an awareness of the richness and diversity of contemporary film output. It will frame cinema today in terms of digital production methods and seek to relate the particular forms of digital cinema to both a new kind of affect and a new kind of control society characterised by flows of information. Photography Contemporary Photography Commissions AME_4_COP Monday 10am 12pm and 1pm 5pm Students must attend both sessions This module will develop students awareness of contemporary photographic practice through briefs that explore different types of photography commissions. The module will consist of a live commission set in conjunction with a client. The module will challenge students to explore a range of different approaches to photography, while encouraging creative responses to the briefs. Lectures, seminars and workshops will provide material for student research, which will underpin the development of the projects.
Photography Digital Image Construction AME_4_DIC Tuesday 9.30am 12.30pm and 1.30pm 4.30pm Students must attend both sessions; Student must have own Digital SLRCamera This module develops students ability with digital image capture, in the studio and on location. Making use of digital post production techniques students will develop retouching and image manipulation skills. Responding to briefs both individually and as part of a team students will develop their ability to produce visually inventive, creative imagery for screen and print. Photography Self Publishing and the Photobook AME_5_SPP Friday 10am 1pm and 1pm 4pm Photography, Art and Design, or reasonable equivalent. Student must have own Digital SLRCamera In recent years developments in digital technology and advances in home printing and print on demand services have led to a rapid increase in photographers self publishing books, outside of the traditional publishing models. At the same time independent and mainstream publishing houses have also increased their output of photobooks. In this module students will explore the photobook as a means for disseminating work and creating an audience. Each student will photograph, design and create a photobook. Collectively you will host an event at which your books can seen and can be purchased by an audience.
Photography Contemporary Photographic Debates AME_5_COP Monday 3pm 6pm Running for the last time is 2016/17 This module explores the critical and cultural contexts for contemporary photographic practice, with an emphasis on the relationship between photography and network culture. Now that the majority of photographs are produced, shared and viewed online, how are the meanings and functions of photography and media changing? How, as photographers, are we responding to and reflecting upon our increasingly online and screen-based lives and realities? In order to answer these questions, you will be introduced to a range of work by practitioners and writers, and encouraged to reflect on the relationship between theory and practice in your own work. Sound Design Sound Synthesis CRT_4_SSY Friday 9am 1pm Running for the last time is 2016/17 This module introduces students to synthesised sounds as a component of sound design practice. They will learn key principles in shaping the timbre of a sound using subtractive synthesis as a basis to introduce other forms of sound processing. The module will enable students to develop their confidence through a series of hands on workshops to complement their understanding of software-based tools.
Sound Design Sound to Picture CRT_4_STP Thursday 1pm 5pm This module will introduce students to creating sound tracks for digital animations created by students on the BA (Hons) Digital Design course. Building on the modules in the first semester, students will produce sound effects and voice-overs while learning how to synchronise sounds to a moving image. The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to experiment with sounds to affect the narrative of visual media. This module will enable students to develop the production skills introduced in the first semester, and allow them to focus on developing an aspect of the final audio track as part of a production team(e.g. sound design, music, dialog). Visual Effects Computer Graphics - 1 CRT_4_CG1 The Computer Graphics - 1 module deals with the challenge of creating 3D objects and their integration within a background from another source such as live action. The students will also be introduced to a virtual camera and the principles of real camera data to match movement and dimensions. Students are also introduced to the principles of 3D modelling and space, including the idea of placing of objects in to a static composite. By adding an environment (the background plate) the object will then be subject to the laws of perspective, and to reflections and shadows. The module will therefore also include exploration of the principles and properties of materials and surfaces, as well as texturing.