COURSE IN DEPTH
Modules
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
Story Research and Concept
20 credits
The purpose of this module is to give You the opportunity to experience the challenge of working within a Story and Pre-Visualisation development team by completing the initial research and concept stages of a Feature film development.
Story Development Planning
40 credits
The purpose of this module is for you to develop a ‘Pre-Production asset pack’. You will build a detailed development structure and production plan within the following areas.
Design – To enhance the design process and establish a more refined art-style for the pre-production process. This will include more detailed mood boards, refined concept designs for both characters and environments and Production illustrations for key scenes.
Writing - To explore ‘show don’t tell’ methods within story structure opens narrative holes or blockers, or suggest much more effective and entertaining ways to develop story structure. It is important for the story development team to contribute to the writing process within this stage of the development.
Story – To iterate block storyboards focusing on 3 major scenes within the film. Developing one into a full animatic, setting the style and performance quality levels required for the future development.
Production – To formulate a detailed pre-production schedule and asset breakdown by outlining key deliverable milestones within a project management methodology. To create an initial Forecast budget for Production (based on the 3 key scenes within the Pre-Production asset pack)
Major Project
60 credits
The purpose of the module is to enable you to undertake a sustained, in-depth and theoretically informed research project exploring an area that is of personal interest to you. It is important that we can support you appropriately, so you will be guided towards choosing a research topic which is relevant to your discipline and in which your lecturers have expertise. The outcome may take the form of a written dissertation or a practical outcome with accompanying reflective, critical and contextual material. The main consideration when choosing your topic is that it must be relevant to your programme and you should consider the relevance of this topic to your future academic or professional development.
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete at least 60 credits from the following indicative list of OPTIONAL modules:
Digital Production in Practice
20 credits
It’s all about you! This module is centred around you and your personal and professional development. You will be the ‘Creative’ and the ‘Content Producer’ in the ideation, development, production and delivery of your own digital marketing assets.
Film Festivals, Marketing and PR
20 credits
This module provides an in-depth look at a major crux for the film industry: film festivals. Film festivals play a part in the financing, distribution and marketing of independent films and therefore the study of them is a core part of the overall. The present module will give students an understanding of the importance of film festivals to the industry, and give them insight into the skills needed to mount a successful marketing and public relations strategy at a festival.
Animation Asset Production
20 credits
The focus of this module is to give students the opportunity to experience the challenges of completing a Feature film development ‘Asset library’ that will be implemented in the production stage of creating a fully immersive Feature film story and pre-visualisation reel that contains either a ‘scene slice’ or has a ‘teaser’ reel to promote the final look and feel of the project.
Professional Animation Practice
40 credits
In this module you will create discipline specific ‘Production ready Assets’ for a Feature film story reel, Pre-Visualisation and scene slice/teaser reel to professional standards.
Film Marketing, Planning and Deployment
40 credits
This module will give students a thorough grounding in the skills necessary to successfully plan and carry out a film marketing strategy. The module will specifically examine the role of the distributor and the ways in which distributors market films from strategizing, through to planning budgets and implementation.
Core modules are guaranteed to run. Optional modules will vary from year to year and the published list is indicative only.
