Music

Creative Project

Module code: W3070
Level 6
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Workshop, Seminar, Personal tutorial *
Assessment modes: Report, Portfolio

On this module, you’ll develop and complete a creative research project to display your creative identity. You can use this material for a professional portfolio.

Through studio or production practice, you’ll build skills in:

• creative systems design
• multimedia and audiovisual work
• film music
• game music
• sound design
• installation and sonic art.

Workshops and creative labs will aid your creative experimentation and help you develop skills for your project. You’ll also have an assigned supervisor who provides one-to-one support with:

• identify an area of interest
• selecting and refine a project brief
• formulate effective research questions and processes
• engage critically with research, creative materials and methodological approaches
• shape a project plan.

Module learning outcomes

• Critically account for and demonstrate, through written and/or presentation commentary, historical, theoretical and aesthetic understanding relevant to a creative project.
• Demonstrate the acquisition of specialist musical skills appropriate to a creative project
• Demonstrate competence in planning, managing and executing a creative project
• Produce advanced musical, sonic, multimedia or creative technology outputs that demonstrate creative flair, the ability to tailor ideas to appropriate formats, large scale structural thinking, and awareness of professional standards
• Demonstrate understanding of practice research methods, and apply them to a creative project
• Demonstrate skills in independent research, particularly in the development of personal music practice.