module specification

This is an intensive 30 credit module that runs over a period of 15 weeks. Building on the skills and awareness developed through previous education and experience, this alternative core module joins together students from the BA Theatre & Performance and BA Theatre & Film to create original interdisciplinary work through collaborative processes. You may work across a variety of mediums, including film and digital media, to take ideas from inception to realisation. Although projects will be undertaken in companies, you will have the opportunity to explore specialist areas of personal interest within your groups wherever possible.

Prerequisites: Completion and pass of SM5019 Theatre Production or SM5023 Combining Theatre and Film

Available for Study Abroad? NO

The first part of the module will consist of practical masterclasses tailored to specific skills required for the projects undertaken. Sessions may include acting techniques for the camera, practical filming techniques, research methods for script-writing, or other appropriate topics identified by the module’s tutors and students. (LO1, LO4).

Students will subsequently be mentored in groups to explore the practical potential of their ideas, and guided through creative strategies to develop and enhance their respective projects.  Working in production companies, students will negotiate the delineation of particular roles whilst working collaboratively towards a final creative output. (LO2, LO3, LO4)

Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.

In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.

Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Reflective learning is promoted through interim formative feedback points that ask students to reflect on their progress, receive help where they identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes and make recommendations to themselves for future development. Throughout the module, students build a body of work, including written reflections on progress and achievement.

The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.

Learning and teaching strategies employed during the module may include:

• multimedia lectures;
• student-led seminars;
• online activities through blended learning approaches;
• practical creative tasks (practical workshops, creative writing, design, photography and videography);
• visits to relevant points of interest;
• interviews with professionals in the industry;
• a screening of final work in front of an invited audience.

On completion of this module students will be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding

1. Identify and engage with methods of collaboration, as appropriate to their project;
2. Demonstrate awareness of the issues raised by the project within a wider artistic and social context;

Transferable Skills

3. Negotiate priorities with a work group and make contributions appropriate to their role;
 
Subject Specific Skills

4. Identify the challenges inherent to a project and develop appropriate strategies to overcome these.

The assessment modes utilised in the module are intended to promote and test the development of creativity, subject specific knowledge and technical skills, and interdisciplinary awareness. 

Process: Students are continuously assessed on the module, with their assessment referencing key events within the term, including seminars, viva and the final project itself. Together with their creative and collaborative skills, process is also evaluated in terms of professionalism, engagement, and contributions to group work.
(LO1, LO3, LO4)

Portfolio: This is a written document supporting their work and reflecting on its development. It may include set research questions as well as self- and peer-evaluation tasks. It may also include supporting material (e.g. interviews, scripts, annotations, storyboards, design ideas, photography and videography). (LO1, LO2)

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