Year 1
This year gives you the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills, which are essential to all of the pathways available on this course. You receive an introduction to core technical skills and look at the key theories, approaches and contexts, which underpin visual storytelling, scriptwriting and the use of light and digital software in performance. You also begin to consider your future career and how to plan for your individual goals. Finally, there are opportunities to put what you’ve learned into practice, through two full-time practical projects, which enable you to plan and create your own live projects.
All students take all of the modules listed here.
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- Core Ideas 1
- Introduction to Film Making
- Story, Script and the Authorship and Places of Performance
- Digital Performance – Software and Light
- Project 1
- Project 2
Year 2
In this year, you start to specialise and develop more advanced skills, which are specific to your career ambitions. You select a major pathway from one of the three options: Film and TV Production, Story, Script and Development or Emerging Technology and Digital Performance. Each pathway comprises two modules and you also select one module from another pathway to complement your skillset as a creative practitioner. This becomes your minor area. In addition to this, you continue to study Core Ideas and undertake two full-time practical projects. Based on all your work in this year, you produce a performing arts business proposal and career plan.
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- Core Ideas 2
- Project 3
- Project 4
- Multi Camera and Studio Creation (Film and TV Pathway)
- Location Filming and Sound (Film and TV Pathway)
- Writing for Camera and Audio (Creating Content Pathway)
- Devising and Collaborative Live and Digital Performance (Creating Content Pathway)
- Digital Performance - Software, Coding, DIY Technology (Digital Practices Pathway)
- Digital Performance – Motion Capture and VR (Digital Practices Pathway)
Year 3
In this year, you concentrate more on your major specialism (Film and TV Production, Story, Script and Development or Emerging Technology and Digital Performance) and continue to develop skills in your minor area to a professional standard. You study either two modules from your major area or one from your major pathway and one from the minor. All students do an individual specialist project. You prepare yourself for work by producing a professional portfolio, which showcases the skills and techniques developed on the course.
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- Core Ideas 3
- Project 5
- Project 6
- Individual Specialist Project
- Live Event and Broadcast Creation (Film and TV Pathway)
- Post Production Technology and Techniques (Film and TV Pathway)
- Cross Platform Performance and Perspectives (Creating Content Pathway)
- Spoken Word (Creating Content Pathway)
- VR and Immersive Audio (Digital Practices Pathway)
- Digital Content Design for Interactive Performance (Digital Practices Pathway)
Year 4
This year allows you to further your practice and pursue your ambitions. Throughout the year, you take responsibility for your own personal and professional development, identifying areas for advanced skill development and generating projects, which will support your future career as a creative practitioner in your area of interest. You work alongside other postgraduate students to deliver projects, which meet professional standards. There is an increased focus on analysing your own work and that of others. You learn about different research methodologies and how they can be applied to inform your work and carry out your own research project.
All students take all of the modules listed here.
Please click on each module for further information.
- Professional Development, Inquiry and Critique 1
- Advanced Techniques – Creative Technologies
- Professional Development, Inquiry and Critique 2
- Final Practice Dissertation
