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EDD200
Film in Context
This module aims to introduce key critical and theoretical concepts in studying film.
Throughout the module you will learn how to ¿read¿ a film and how to break it down into its individual components to understand how each part of a film helps communicate its themes and values.
You will then apply these to two films from the following movements. You will then pick one as the focus of your essay:
The French New Wave ¿ Une Femme est Une Femme & Breathless
The Surrealist Film Movement ¿ The Phantom of Liberty & Head
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EDD303
Film in Context
This module aims to introduce key critical and theoretical concepts in studying film.
Throughout the module you will learn how to ¿read¿ a film and how to break it down into its individual components to understand how each part of a film helps communicate its themes and values.
You will then apply these to two films from the following movements. You will then pick one as the focus of your essay:
The French New Wave ¿ Une Femme est Une Femme & Breathless
The Surrealist Film Movement ¿ The Phantom of Liberty & Head
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EN-118
Creative Writing: Styles of Fiction
An innovative module that will introduce the student to the art of writing within a broad range of styles.
Weekly lectures will introduce each student to authors of specific styles, such as poetry, writing for theatre, song writing and professional writing. Each lecture will be followed by a seminar that will focus on a variety of methods used to write in that specific style.
Regular assignments will offer the student an opportunity to write creatively - a unique opportunity to expand, discover, and explore their emerging writerly voice.
Built into the module is a wide reaching reading programme that will assist each student to be conversant with the traditions of writing in a specific genre, whilst encouraging close reading and editing skills.
Students will be taught by published authors who work within these particular genres, and will also have the opportunity to hear these authors read & discuss their own new work and works-in-progress.
The module aims to examine the structure, voice, setting and style, of specific written material so as to initiate curiosity, create empathy, and focus on increasing an understanding of the structures used within research, writing character, setting and historical context in a specific style. Emphasis will be placed on the theory and practice of reading, comprehension and writing.
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EN-270
Writing a Short Film
This module aims to introduce students to the practice of writing scripts for short films. Developing their writing skills within the parameters of short narrative, the course will also encourage students to explore and develop dialogue and character skills. Through a combination of theory and practical exercises, students will develop a 15-minute film script which demonstrates their skills of character, story, genre, formatting, dialogue, and industry appeal. The module will also look at the very different roles of the writer verses the director, the relationship between audiences and short film, and will explore current developments in both creative and industrial contexts. The module also aims to offer practical help in how to pitch an idea, how to enter film festivals and how to further develop their own voice.
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EN-3048
Professional Development: Preparing for Work
This module provides students with the context to critically engage with and access relevant industrial experiences and practices to help develop an understanding of how to gain employment within a professional working environment.
There will be 11 x 3 hour theory/workshop classes which will help prepare students for working as part of a company or institution as well as working as a freelance.
Lecture topics include how to structure CVs; how to write effective cover letters; understanding student¿s skills and matching them to employer¿s needs; finding employment; researching the jobs market.
Sessions will also contain a formal lecture as well as workshops, mock interviews and one to one discussion in order to tailor Personal Development Profiles to the individual.
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EN-3055
Graphic Novel
What are graphic novels, and how do they relate to their component terms, ¿graphic¿ and ¿novel¿? How do we read graphic novels? What are their antecedents, and how do contemporary works speak to the development of the form? Through an examination of two key texts, Bryan Talbot¿s Alice in Sunderland and Carol Swain¿s Gast, this module combines a focus on the literary and visual to equip students with the skills to analyse and understand how graphic novels signify, and how they explore and challenge a range of themes and ideas. In addition to an attention to form and the visual, students will apply critical and theoretical approaches to consider themes and concepts such as distinctions between ¿high¿ and ¿low¿ art, storytelling, identity, history and psycho-geography.
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EN-3057
Creative Writing Personal Project
The Creative Writing Personal Project is a two-term, 40-credit module which enables students to experience as fully as possible at undergraduate level the three characteristics ¿ independent practice, criticism, reflection ¿ integral to both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and which underpin the careers of professional writers. The first term offers skills enhancement to students on proposal writing, reflective writing, reading as research, self-reflection and journaling,
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EN-306
Writing for Radio and Screen
This module consists of a series of weekly workshops in the theory and practice of writing for performance. It will clarify how writing for film and audio differ from stage and will include specific teaching sessions and assignments in these areas of performance writing.
The Course will be taught by tutor-led discussion and work shop based exercises; various writing techniques will be contextualised through a diverse range of books, films and audio plays. Students will be presented with a number of different strategies and systems for structuring a script in order to enhance dramatic writing.
Emphasis will be placed throughout on the practicalities of developing near professional scripts. Consideration will be given to the collaborative aspects of performance writing and the requirements and contributions of other professionals (actors, designers, directors, producers etc) in the development of a script. The development process will involve work-shopping scripts with peers and receiving formative tutor feedback in addition to ongoing communal discussion and constructive feedback.
The student is asked to submit two portfolios, the first will be a radio script of up to 2,500 words (the equivalent of 10 -12 pages of formatted script) plus a 500 word reflective essay. The second will be a short film script of a maximum of 2,500 words (the equivalent of 10 -12 pages of formatted script) plus a 500 word reflective essay. The first assignment will be worth one-third of the overall module mark, the second assignment two thirds.
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ENMD00
Creative Writing Dissertation
Individual Creative Writing project devised and defined in discussion between supervisor and student (within the parameters pertaining to genre detailed in the MA Creative Writing handbook)
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MS-354
Film Production Management
This production management module has been designed to offer you an insight into the organisation and pre-production development needed to produce a short film. Learning from industry professionals, this module takes you through the various stages of production management, from the initial pitch to the finalised production folder. Students will learn how to schedule film shoots, create risk assessments, break down scripts and find funding opportunities.
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MS-M01
Screenwriting
This module examines the principles, skills and techniques of writing for the scree, including film and television.