The combination of Film Studies and Media Studies offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of film and to explore a range of media institutions, activities, products and users, including new and alternative media forms. This degree offers you the opportunity to study in a department that has a thriving and internationally recognised research culture.
Film Studies and Media Studies offers an excellent balance of theory and practice,
allowing you to engage with essential critical, historical and aesthetic approaches to a range of films and modes and technologies of media and to apply those creatively to practical projects. You will benefit from access to industry standard facilities, including TV and radio studios, multimedia suites and digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites.
The course provides opportunities to exhibit your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.
Module guide
Students take the compulsories in each subject and two further modules per subject per year.
Year one modules:
The combination of Film Studies and Media Studies offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of film and to explore a range of media institutions, activities, products and users, including new and alternative media forms. This degree offers you the opportunity to study in a department that has a thriving and internationally recognised research culture.
Film Studies and Media Studies offers an excellent balance of theory and practice,
allowing you to engage with essential critical, historical and aesthetic approaches to a range of films and modes and technologies of media and to apply those creatively to practical projects. You will benefit from access to industry standard facilities, including TV and radio studios, multimedia suites and digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites.
The course provides opportunities to exhibit your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Introduction to Film and Cinema
Media and Society
Visualization, Research and Storyboarding
Digital Imaging
Introduction to Radio
Introduction to Print
Introduction to Video
Film and Genre
History of Cinema
Research Methods in Media and Communication
History of Media Industries
Analysing Media Texts
Year two modules:
Theorizing the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema
Media, Culture and Identity
Communication and the Public Sphere
Communication and the Political Economy
Everyday Life
Internet Communication
Radio Features
Radio Documentary
Video Documentary
Film, Identity and Globalization
Independent Cinema: US and Beyond
Documentary Film Theory
Video Documentary
16mm Filmmaking
Animation
Introduction to European Cinema
European Cinema and Identity
Year three modules:
Major Project in Film Studies OR Media Studies
Film Art
Avant-Garde Film and Experimental Video
Film, Modernity and Post-modernity
Multiplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema
Creative Practice in Film & Video 1 & 2
Working in Film and Communication
Language, Culture and Reason
Globalization and Communication
Technoculture
Images and Rhetoric of Conflict
Alternative Media Cultures
Creative Radio
Creative Publishing
Theorizing the Information Age 1 and 2
Political Communication
Contemporary Television
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Associated careers
A key element of this Film Studies and Media Studies course is the focus on the kind of skills currently in demand within the creative industries. Recent graduates are now following successful careers in film and video production, film criticism, broadcasting, media consultancy, journalism and advertising.
Assessment
Assessment is via a mix of traditional methods including examination, essays and presentations, plus a range of 'hands-on' methods including evaluation of students' production of creative work, plus the 'crit', during which students present and defend their own work.
180 - 220 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. GCSE(s) Required: English Language grade C
For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
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