MFC4092 - Screening Character - Types and Archetypes

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

1 demonstrate knowledge and understanding of selected models of personality, temperament and archetypal type.
2 Apply one of the frameworks above (1) to the analysis of character and its significance in film or television.

Content:

The module provides an overview of conceptual frameworks for exploring screenwriting character complexity and motivation. Anchored in Carol Pearson’s Heroic Quest model, the module explores how insights arising from Carl Jung’s work on Archetypes, David Keirsey’s Temperament Character Indicator, and other models of self-understanding and development, are harnessed in the screenwriting craft to create unforgettable characters.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Through a mixture of lectures, screen clips and workshop sessions, using individual and group exercises, students will explore what their own type might be and how types interact with each other. Building on that understanding, the module explores, through Pearson’s archetypal model, the development of character in film and television drama and its role in narrative.

Lectures Contact hours: 20
Intended Group size: 1

Workshops
Contact hours: 20
Intended Group size: 4x15

Guided independent study
Total hours: 160
Additional assessment information
Directed activities:
These consist of weekly tasks that must be completed and submitted for inspection at timetabled sessions each week. The assessment will be on a pass/ fail basis with a pass requiring at least 75% of all weekly tasks successfully completed. A pass mark will lead to the full award of 10% towards the final mark. A fail in directed activities will contribute 0% to the final mark.
The Portfolio will normally include a number of exercises designed to develop study skills and familiarise students with resources relevant to the field of study. The detailed requirements of the Portfolio will be published in the module handbook.
Students must complete and submit the pass / fail portfolio and the essay to be eligible to pass the module.
Students permitted to take a half-module for the award of 10 credits in semester 1 will be assessed on the basis of the Portfolio. Not available as a half-module in semester 2.
Semester 1 - Portfolio 1,000 words

Assessment:

001 Portfolio 1 x 1000 words equiv. Pass/Fail 0%
002 Essay 1 x 3000 words (end of sem 2) 90%
003 Directed Activities during semester 1 & 2 10%
004 Portfolio 1 x 1000 words equiv. Pass/Fail - Visiting students 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Mrs Maggie Roux
Level - 4
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4YL

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