Teaching Block 1
Core units
Screen Forms and Analysis
On this lecture/seminar unit you will develop your skills of screen analysis, and explore how key concepts relate to a range of film and television forms.
Production Technologies and Techniques
This practical unit will teach you technical skills of digital film production to allow you to proceed to work in creative film projects.
Optional units
Writing and Directing for Film and Television
This unit will introduce the craft, conventions, and creative processes involved in writing and directing for the screen. Each student makes several short films, and produces a short fiction or documentary script.
Screen Histories
This unit will offer a close investigation of a key aspect of screen history, such as a particular period (e.g. silent cinema), a central feature of film culture (e.g. stardom), a technological or industrial context (e.g. the uses of colour) or a genre (e.g. fantasy films, documentary, television drama series).
Film Theory
In this unit you will explore the work of key film theorists and theoretical approaches to cinema and related media.
Screening Nations
This unit examines how films relate to national and transnational contexts of production and reception.
Authorship in Film and Television
In this unit you will explore notions of authorship and how creative control is manifested in exemplary works of television and film.
Teaching Block 2
Core units
Screen Research Methods
This core unit provides a foundation for the dissertation stage by exemplifying key methods for approaching the study of film and television.
Optional units
Screen Style and Aesthetics
This unit investigates issues in screen aesthetics through detailed examination of how film and television works employ the facilities of their particular medium to shape meaning.
Making Short Films
In this unit you will develop creative skills and work in small groups to script, prepare and realise short films.
Translation for Subtitling (Chinese-English)
This unit will develop your ability to translate the subtitles of movies and TV programmes effectively.
Television Forms
In this unit you will undertake the critical study of television, its programmes and contexts by focusing on how a particular genre has developed over time.
Contemporary Film
This unit allows you to examine key trends and changes in cinema from the last decade, including the impact of new technologies and developing cultural contexts.