Module Identifier MC10120  
Module Title THINKING THE VISUAL  
Academic Year 2004/2005  
Co-ordinator Mr Royston D C Martin  
Semester Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)  
Other staff Mr Dorian L Jones  
Course delivery Lecture   15 Hours Lecture-Seminar  
  Practical   9 Hours Practical workshops  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Assessment Practical Production Project  50%
Semester Assessment Critical project appraisal 2000 words For information on due dates for submission of assessed work, please refer to the departmental web pages at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/duedates.shtml50%

Learning outcomes

Typically, upon completion of this module, a student will be able to:

demonstrate an understanding of the process of visual media composition through the study, planning, production and delivery of a one-minute practical production project to a specified schedule.

employ analytical, reflective and discursive skills in the collaborative selection and ongoing development of short, visual production projects which employ non conventional shot relations.

Content

This is a new 20-credit first year module. The main focus of this module is on the production, composition and assembly of visual images in ways which depart from the traditional concerns of continuity-related linear narrative. This relates to other approaches taken in the new Degree Scheme to the extent that:

-it challenges and unpacks conventional perceptions settled around 'objective' linear continuity-based visual realities and sets about the reconstruction of these realities in compressed, poetic and associational forms of visual representation;
-it should appeal to students who are interested in how we interpret (and differ in interpreting) visual texts.

For production oriented TFTS students, this module offers a diversification of approach to the extent that:

-it consciously addresses the above issues both in terms of production theory and production pracice, and this is reflected both in the reading outlined for the module as well as in the equal weighting awarded to theoretically and practically expressed assessed elements.

-it further enables, through this combined theoretical and practical approach, the self-conscious movement by the student from consumer/interpreter of visual images to producer/interpreter of visual images as the module progresses.

Reading Lists

Books
SEE MC10100

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 4