FV4T06 - Direction Production Project 13 Nov 2018 - 31 Aug 2025 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: FV4T06
Module Title: Direction Production Project
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Film and TV
Faculty Sub Group: Film and TV
Module Leader: Emyr Jenkins
Module Team: Emyr Jenkins, Gwyneth Moore
First Intended Intake: SEP 2019 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 60 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes:
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Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 13 Nov 2018
Valid To 31 Aug 2025

Module Aims

Enable students to create a substantial body of high-quality work that expresses their ability in their chosen specialism.

Guide students towards material appropriate for their personal showreel and other material that exhibits their ability.

Ensure student’s retain focus on recognised industry-based roles and responsibilities throughout their work on the module.

Content Summary

The purpose of this module is to provide the student with the opportunity to create a significant body of work that exhibits the level of their technical, aesthetic, and intellectual abilities, in relation to their chosen specialism.

The student will propose a body of work directly related and level appropriate to the Film Director role, to be discussed and agreed with supervisor.

The work created will be either through self-initiated individual work, a group-initiated team-based project, or an industry-led portfolio of work.

Lectures will establish the module, the expectations of the work to be submitted, professional working practices, and expectations. Guidance on the focus and content of the self-reflective journal composition appropriate to the level of this module will also be provided, to support the student in the development of their own reflective practices.

Tutorials will guide students on their practice through discussion and observation of work.

Agreed interim project delivery points will provide formative assessments of work created and methods undertaken at key points throughout the projects production.

Final deadline will form the summative assessment point, where all work should be submitted in the agreed forms and formats.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 18
Tutorial 4
Practical classes and workshops 86
Independent Study 240
Directed Study 252
Total Hours Selected 600

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Design and create a body of work that exhibits the practical competence and professionalism expected to progress into industry at an assistant director/director level
LO2 Evaluate purpose of role and responsibilities of a film director, and synthesise acquired subject knowledge as evident in work created
LO3 Appraise own work through application of appropriate research into the expectations required of film director and/or assistant director, and applied analysis

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Written Assignment (CW) Self Reflective Assessment (CW) 1 Self-reflective written/visual journal 0 3600 20 No 40
Portfolio Portfolio 1 Portfolio of filmmaking practice that exhibits advanced fiction direction abilities, as agreed. 0 N/A 80 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3
Self Reflective Assessment (CW) 1
Portfolio 1

Reading List

Western J (1996) Directing Actors: creating memorable performances for film and television, Studio City, CA: M. Wiese Productions

Swain JH (2018) The science & art of acting for the camera: a practical approach to film, television, and commercial acting, New York: Routledge

Rabinger M & Hurbis-Cherrier M (2013) Directing: Film Techniques & Aesthetics, Fifth Edition, Routledge

Mackendrick A & Cronin P (eds) (2006) On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director, Faber and Faber

Mamet D (1992) On Directing Film, Penguin

Bergman I (2001) The Fifth Act, The New Press

Katz, SD (1991) Shot by Shot: Visualising from Concept to Screen, Michael Weise Productions

Tarkovsky A (1989) Sculpting in Time, Faber and Faber

Dmytryk E (2018) On Screen Acting, Routledge

Klenner R (2019) Directing Screen Performances, Bloomsbury Academic

McIver G (2017) Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling, Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Mercado G (2010) The Filmmaker’s Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition, Routledge

Rooney B & Belli ML (2011) Directors Tell the Story:Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, Focal Press