MFC5023 - Digital Visualisation: Concept to Practice

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

The module provides a history of special visual effects production for film and television, from its roots to present day info/entertainment to the move towards digital technologies. It examines the visual use of practical and physical effects, motion graphics (animation), visualisation (pre-vis) and digital effects (computer generated).

It also explores issues of technical production using a range of weekly directed activities, either visual, digital or studio relevant.

Creative possibilities within Film, TV and associated Media outlets are discussed, together with the constraints of: budget, experience/skills, production time, facilities and location.

Theory will be applied to practical production in both semesters, where experience will be gained via software packages to create a visual effect/sequence using motion graphics for television or cinema portfolio.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Workshops
Hours: 30
Intended Group Size: 12

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment

The Portfolios will normally include a number of exercises designed to develop technical and analytical skills and familiarise students with resources relevant to the field of study; the detailed requirements of the Portfolios will be published in the module handbook.

Early Assessment: there will be a formative assessment within the first 4 weeks and this will help unpack the assignment details for the 1st assignment as well as guide and inform student preparation and help introduce the University grading system.

Please note that where the module is taken by visiting/study abroad students, candidates permitted to take a half-module for the award of 15 credits will be assessed on the basis of a 2,000-word equivalent portfolio.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio; 2,000 word equivalent; end of semester 1 50%
002 Portfolio; 2,000 word equivalent; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - James Rothschild
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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