FV3D17 - Advanced Filmmaking 1: Specialisation 06 Jul 2023 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 2

Associated Module Information

Module Code: FV3D17
Module Title: Advanced Filmmaking 1: Specialisation
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Film and TV
Faculty Sub Group: Film and TV
Module Leader: Inga Burrows
Module Team: Joseph Sudlow, Philip Cowan, Samo Chandler, Margaret Constantas, Dewi Griffiths, Nigel Orrillard, Gwyneth Moore
First Intended Intake: SEP 2020 Final Year of Intake: 2025
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 40 Credit Level: 6
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100441 - film production
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 2
Valid From 06 Jul 2023
Valid To 31 Aug 2026

Module Aims

• Collaboratively produce a documentary, fiction or hybrid film that tests all appropriate aspects of the film production pipeline, from idea to presentation.
• Provide opportunity for students to consolidate their chosen film craft specialism and apply production techniques developed at level IV and V (years 1 and 2).
• Enable students, through practice, to critically explore film structures, theories and syntax of film in relation to scripted or unscripted forms of filmmaking.
• Support the role of visual and aural translation of concepts and ideas in creating meaning in film, by encouraging innovation, experimentation and originality.

Content Summary

This module provides students with the opportunity to translate and synthesise their varied experiences and knowledge of film concepts, practices and the industry, learnt over the previous two years, into a professional standard project.
Advanced Filmmaking 1: Specialisation emphasises the important role of detailed project development within the process of filmmaking. It provides an opportunity to build on developed craft skills enabling the student to more fully realise the creative aspirations of their projects, and advance their personal and professional development.
The module is designed to perform a number of functions:
• Rehearse production process and craft roles, laying the groundwork for professional level production on subsequent Advanced Filmmaking 2: Engagement module.
• Encourage interest in bold approaches in both the creation of content and in considering aesthetic strategies for audience engagement as part of the research and development phase of production.
• Encourage approaches to storytelling that exploit the affective potential of the manipulation of audio and moving image material.
This module establishes a laboratory learning environment for creative investigation into the affective potential of audio-visual media. Drawing on theoretical concepts of cinema studies which examine the ways in which audiences experience film as an embodied experience
Individually students will take responsibility for their chosen craft skill exploration that will generate material content for further development.
This module also gives students an opportunity to continue to experiment with the various elements of film language, film form and style, techniques and aesthetics that they have studied on the course.
This module contains a six-week immersive learning element.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 12
Seminar 24
Tutorial 2
Practical classes and workshops 10
Independent Study 200
Directed Study 152
Total Hours Selected 400

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Confidently experiment with filmmaking techniques to explore skills and awareness of how manipulate audio visual media to affect audiences’ embodied experience of film viewing.
LO2 Apply new knowledge of techniques and methods of production to the creation of an original film.
LO3 Assess how theoretical materials may inform and shape innovative production strategies.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Portfolio 1 Development portfolio relating to the students individual craft role, including a ‘Statement of intent’, and research & evidence of their craft on a final module film. 0 N/A 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3
Portfolio 1

Reading List

Coegnarts M. & Kravanja P, (2015) Embodied cognition and cinema, Leuven University Press
Eisenstein (1969) Film Form. Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
Freedberg D. (2019) The Power of the Images: Studies in the History of Response. University of Chicago Press; 2nd ed.
Krober K. (2006) Make Believe in Film and Fiction. University of Chicago Press; 2nd ed. edition
MacDougall D.(2005) The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses. Princeton University Press.
Pearlman K. (2016) Cutting Rhythms. Technique of Film Editing, Routledge.
Reisz K. (2009) Technique of Film Editing, Reissue of 2nd Edition.
Wierzbicki J. E. (2012) Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema, Routledge
Willis H.,(2016) Fast Forward: the future(s) of the cinematic arts, Wallflower Press.
Winters P.(2017) Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films. Routledge.