Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 10 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at Wiltshire College |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to introduce students to the professional techniques fundamental to drama production, in the context of practical production. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit the learner should be able to describe, within the context of a practical production, different fiction formats, and be able to demonstrate the techniques for creating drama production, and explain the process of the products creation. Skills: The intellectual skills for the creation of drama, and the craft skills to put the product into production. Content: Programme formats: e.g. defining the nature of the story and the potential for development to meet the needs of the viewer Differentiating content and style: e.g. soaps series, singles, period, mini-series, docudrama. Narrative structure: e.g. telling the story, compression of time. Industry documentation: e.g. script, story board records of team meetings, script breakdowns schedules cross-plots and strip boards. Planning: e.g. set and studio plans and designs, budgets, production management, roles, recces, design lighting and sound problems, working with actors, shooting for post production. Health and Safety: e.g. risk assessment and risk control. Limitations to production: e.g. time, budget, health and safety, the law, communication, working in the public domain, casting, weather and other continuity issues new technology, transport. |
| Programme availability: |
AS20140 is Optional on the following programmes:Learning Partnerships
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