Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 5 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 at Wiltshire College |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take AS10136 and take AS10137 |
| Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to broaden and challenge the learner's understanding and experience of video and media production by encouraging experimentation. It urges examination and critical analysis of emerging avante garde and experimental media products, which go beyond the conventional. The unit specifically aims to promote new and innovative media products. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit the student should be able to describe the historical development of current media and visual culture, describe in detail semiotics and the generation of meaning within media products. They should be able to demonstrate media production, which breaks new ground in media production techniques. Skills: Production, research, analysis and evaluative skills. Content: Exploration of aesthetics: e.g. colour, shape, texture, form, sounds, timbre, inherent qualities, implied association Overview of the historical development of the avante garde, underground and experimental media arts, particularly current developments. Exploration and exploitation of the potential and characteristics of media and materials, generation of implicit and explicit meanings. Experimentation with alternative production techniques and methods: e.g. juxtaposition of unrelated images, non narrative sequences, sound design and sound/image relationships. Analysis, through experiment, of chance effects and meaning generated through chance. Experimentation with media specific techniques: e.g. under/over-exposing, use of filters, unconventional use of lenses, lighting, camera movements, pattern, form, texture, focus, sound manipulation, timbre, pace etc Production, following experimentation, of innovative visual and audio media products that are free of the restraints of a defined communications task and which go beyond conventional and existing production techniques, methods and products. |
| Programme availability: |
AS20138 is Optional on the following programmes:Learning Partnerships
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