MFC4172 - Collaborative Project 1

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate practical awareness of the skills required to work as an individual and as part of a team on a pre-designed project.
Complete a group photography project, with editorial guidance, producing results to pre-agreed professional standards and within a given time-frame.
Demonstrate an ability to understand and evaluate the legal, ethical and commercial requirements relevant to the photographic project.

Content:

This module is designed to develop a foundational awareness of the theoretical and practical nature of group work within professional photographic contexts. It is also designed to explore the basic processes of working to a brief and pitching an idea. The module provides an initial formal and theoretical introduction to the nature of group work and the range of skills and roles it requires. Pre-specified projects and tasks on a range of photographic briefs are offered for selection. Groups will be supported through the design and initial implementation of their project strategy. Sessions provide basic information, advice and support about completing project work in an appropriate medium (such as poster, e-publication, print, or image files) and pitching it to editors and clients.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Seminars will combine tutor input with structured learning activities and discussion based on guided independent study. The whole group will work to pre-defined general standards for the project and each group will be required to produce a plan to meet those standards. Once the project is under way there will be group tutorials to monitor and support progress and individual tutorials to monitor and support understanding of and performance in individual roles and responsibilities.

Workshops/seminars
Hours: 12
Intended Group Size: 30

Group tutorials
Hours: 12
Intended Group Size: 6

Individual tutorials
Hours: 2
Intended Group Size: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 174

Further details relating to assessment
Directed activities: these consist of weekly tasks that must be completed and submitted for inspection at timetabled sessions each week. The assessment will be assessed on a pass/fail basis with a pass requiring at least 75% of all weekly tasks to be completed successfully. A pass will lead to the full award of 10% towards the final module mark. A fail in directed activities will contribute 0% to the final mark.

Group project: this comprises a response to a given brief and is presented as a 'pitch', outlining and proposing that response to an editor, agent (or equivalent). The group will be expected to vary the format of their 'pitch' according to their particular way of responding to the brief. Sample formats include production of images for advertising material; photojournalism, or for web use.

Project report: this will include a short reflective study of the specific team-role practice identified and put into practice, along with an evaluative study of how effective it proved in practice, and finally a prospective analysis of how behaviour and theory might be better aligned in future.

Assessment:

001 Directed activities 10%
002 Group Project 3,000-word equivalent 70%
003 Project Report 1,000 words 20%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Liza Dracup
Level - 4
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4S2

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