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Content: In this practical module you will apply the moving image concepts and tools developed in Year 1 to the telling of a story through film. Looking at a wide range of examples including archive films, documentary and fiction drawn from diverse filmmakers and screen histories you will analyse, and explore through practice, how moving images shape imaginative representations of our world and can make visible hidden and complex stories.

Working with the special collections team at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº East you will identify a curious text, map or image from the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº collections that you can speculate and build a screen story from, be it fiction, documentary or archival. Working with your source object you will learn how to construct a story for screen, from initial idea, through research, pre-production, production and post-production. You will consider how approaches to pitching, character, script, location, cinematography and sound differ in different genres of screen production. Technical methods workshops will introduce you to the use and application of different lenses, focus control and studio techniques such as green screen. During the development of your diverse range of projects you will support and learn from each other through workshopping and peer critique seminars.

Teaching delivery: This module is taught in weekly 3 hour combined practical and theory workshops + bi-weekly technical labs + three one to one tutorials per student/project per term.

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• Research and development of fictional and documentary filmsÌýÌý
• Working with collectionsÌý
• Script writing and developmentÌýÌý
• Pitching and planningÌýÌý
• Advanced camera skillsÌýÌý
• Advanced editing skillsÌýÌý
• Directing skillsÌýÌý

Module aims: This module aims to develop, apply and refine concepts and practices of storytelling in moving image. Through discussion of examples students will develop a critical understanding of filmmaking production practices and workflows for documentary, archive and fiction film. In the practice project students will learn to move from idea to production and in doing so gain experience and confidence in both technical skills and their ability to follow through a self-directed creative process, readying them for the final year project. The module is delivered with the collaboration of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections, making use of the rich resources that ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº holds.ÌýÌýÌý

This module is taught on the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº East campus in Stratford.Ìý