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Due to Covid-19 restrictions, learning and teaching activities on campus as described in the module descriptors are currently restricted. Learning and teaching will be enabled through a mixture of scheduled online activity where you will be able to engage with your tutor and classmates in real-time and unscheduled guided activity where you will be required to complete activities and tasks at a time which best suits you. Teaching will take place on campus, wherever possible, and where this is safe to happen.

Definitive information on module delivery during 2020/21 will be provided on Module Moodle Sites. For specific enquiries please contact the module leaders directly.

Core Module Information
Module title:	Creative Practice for Film and TV
SCQF level:	11:
SCQF credit value:	20.00
ECTS credit value:	10
Module code:	SCA11130
Module leader:	Susie Brown
School	School of Arts and Creative Industries
Subject area group:	Screen and Performace

Prerequisites

N/A

Description of module content:

Through a series of lectures, seminars and workshops, you will learn the technical skills and processes involved in your chosen discipline. You will acquire a grasp of the principles of storytelling through action and events, the way in which a cinematic world arises out of character and interpretation, and of the meaning of images through composition and cutting. You will prepare and undertake exercises utilising the skills being investigated to explore your own developing creative practice. These exercises include short film dramas.

Learning Outcomes for module:

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
LO1: Critically analyse film texts in the context of your own creative practice.
LO2: Generate ideas and produce your own narratives in short film form.
LO3: Plan the deployment of the creative, technical and personal skills and resources required to realise your objectives.
LO4: Resolve aesthetic problems with shooting and/or editing works in progress
LO5: Justify production and post-production solutions to producers and other collaborators.
LO6: Critically reflect on your work at each stage of production.

Full Details of Teaching and Assessment

2021/2, Trimester 1, Face-to-Face, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence:	001
Primary mode of delivery:	Face-to-Face
Location of delivery:	MERCHISTON
Partner:	Edinburgh Napier University
Member of staff responsible for delivering module:	Susie Brown
Module Organiser:

Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Approach:

Learning & teaching methods including their alignment to Los
The module will consist of a series of lectures and workshops that will enhance your technical and creative understanding of, and ability to produce, visual meaning and narrative (LOs 1, 2, 3, 6) in your chosen discipline. Your work will be supported by tutorials (LOs 3, 4, 5) and reviewed in crits (LO 6)

Embedding of employability/PDP/scholarship skills
This module enables you to build the personal and professional skills you will need as a practitioner in this creative field. In common with all students at the Screen Academy, you will complete a Personal Development Plan. This will outline your creative, professional and critical goals throughout the programme and beyond. You will revisit this plan as part of your learning log and critical studies throughout the year. Employability skills developed: Team working, working to deadlines, setting objectives, creativity, communicating, organising and planning, critical evaluation and reflective skills.

Assessment (formative and summative)
Student delivered seminars will be assessed both formatively, through peer and tutor feedback, and summatively. You will work on 4 exercises (LO 2-5), which will include films of between 2 and 3 minutes duration, stills exercises, and a development and test package appropriate to your specialism. These exercises are presented at a series of crits throughout the trimester. The crits provide another opportunity for formative feedback, and the work will be assessed summatively through the submission of a portfolio containing these materials at the end of the trimester. Critical reflection within this module takes place through the learning log, submitted at the end of the trimester (LO 1, 6). This will contain around 1500 words of reflection, as well as film stills, photographs, and other images and materials for reference and research.

Research/ teaching linkages
Staff and visiting lecturers throughout t

Formative Assessment:

The University is currently undertaking work to improve the quality of information provided on methods of assessment and feedback. Please refer to the section on Learning and Teaching Approaches above for further information about this module’s learning, teaching and assessment practices, including formative and summative approaches.

Summative Assessment:

Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH))
Mode of activity	Learning & Teaching Activity	NESH (Study Hours)
Face To Face	Lecture	12
Independent Learning	Project Supervision	44
Independent Learning	Guided independent study	100
Face To Face	Tutorial	44
	Total Study Hours	200
	Expected Total Study Hours for Module	200

Assessment
Type of Assessment	Weighting %	LOs covered	Week due	Length in Hours/Words
Other	75	2,3,4,5	13	HOURS= 0, WORDS= 0
Learning Log	25	1,6	13	HOURS= 0, WORDS= 1500
Component 1 subtotal:	75
Component 2 subtotal:	25
Module subtotal:	100

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