Media and film studies
Creative Practice: Ideas and Exploration
Module code: P4038
Level 4
30 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Seminar, Lecture, Workshop
Assessment modes: Coursework
On this module, you’ll explore a range of practices from across the disciplines that are taught on the Media Production BA.
Centred around a series of lectures from staff practitioners, this module will introduce the different approaches employed by:
- digital artists
- designers
- filmmakers
- art-activists
- practice-research academics.
Insights will be given into:
- multifaceted processes
- how to find inspiration
- exploring themes and turning interests into a final work
- how to take action.
Lectures and seminars will widen the scope of enquiry to look at specific examples of contemporary media practice and to identify modes and methods. You’ll investigate ways in which the techniques of others can be applied to your own practice and how to carry out your own experiments.
Over the course of the module, you’ll undertake weekly exercises, practical tasks and formal research, which will help you understand these various modes. These will be recorded and reflected on weekly in a log and a short report.
Module learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of the work of key creative practitioners within a given field, evaluating relevant strengths in differing approaches to the research and development of a media project
- Demonstrate an ability to mobilise appropriate terminology in the analysis of selected media examples and texts
- Develop ideas and analysis effectively in written form with supporting illustrations and appropriately referenced research
- Demonstrate the ability to apply findings to inform the development of own creative practice methods