FV4S12 - Specialist Craft 2 01 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2027 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: FV4S12
Module Title: Specialist Craft 2
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Film and TV
Faculty Sub Group: Film and TV
Module Leader: Emyr Jenkins
Module Team: Keri Collins, Sian Summers, Ian Staples, Philip Cowan, Samo Chandler
First Intended Intake: SEP 2025 Final Year of Intake: 2026
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100716 - cinematography
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Sep 2025
Valid To 31 Aug 2027

Module Aims

Build craft practice requirements specific to the chosen course specialism to an advanced level.

Prove the opportunity for the students to experience and attain recognised skills that expand beyond previously established skills.

Facilitate the development of new practice, which will be of complexity and challenge appropriate to level as recognised by the course's industry partners.

Content Summary

The purpose of this module is to set a number of exercises to develop advanced skills, appropriate to the student’s chosen discipline.

Through a series of lectures, establish an advanced level of specialist craft requirements for each course's discipline.

Workshop activities will explore a series of defined exercises that will form the basis of the assessment portfolio. Where appropriate these exercises will follow sector guidance and/or accreditation.

Tutorials will be utilised to guide the student through each task either in a group or individual situation depending on the discipline and nature of task.

Industry conventions will be maintained and expanded in preparation for subsequent course modules.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 6
Tutorial 2
Practical classes and workshops 28
Independent Study 80
Directed Study 84
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Create a body of work that demonstrates practical competence and understanding of your craft specialism.
LO2 Synthesise acquired knowledge of key historical examples, and creative application of your specialism within film production.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Portfolio 1 Portfolio of advanced craft exercises that exhibit a body of work appropriate to chosen discipline, as directed. 0 N/A 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Portfolio 1

Reading List

Bowen, C (2013) Grammar of the Edit, Focal Press

Thompson, R & Bowen, C.J (2009) Grammar of the Shot, Second Edition, Focal Press Documentary

Rosenthal, A, Eckhardt, N (2015) Writing, Directing and Producing Documentary Films and Digital Videos, Fifth Edition, Southern Illinois University Press

Anderson, K, Lucas, M (2016) Documentary Voice and Vision, Routledge Visual Effects

Bode L (2017) Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

McClean ST (2007) Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Directing

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

Dmytryk E (2018) On Screen Acting, Routledge Production Management

Levinson L (2016) Film Makers & Financing, Focal Press Dizazzo R (2017) The Corporate Media Toolkit, Focal Press