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As a result of College adapting your modules to combine face-to-face on campus and online teaching and learning support, the breakdown of notional learning hours set out under the heading “Technical Requirements” below may not necessarily reflect how each module will be delivered this year. Further details relating to this will be made available by your department and will be updated as part of the student timetable. |
| MA 2052 - Documentary |
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Associated Term:
2018/19 Academic Session
Learning Objectives: This course examines the ideas that both audiences and filmmakers commonly use to discuss documentaries. Each week students will examine a single film whose construction highlights a particular issue, and will discuss it in conjunction with a selected written text. The ideas which are examined fall into three related groups. The first is that of the development of documentary: What is documentary? How have the ideals of documentary changed over its history? What has been the role of technology in the development of documentary? The second is that of the filming process: What are the limits of what can be filmed? What happens when people know they are being filmed? What kinds of performance are acceptable and even necessary? Can truthfulness ever be established? The third is that of our own experience and expectations as audiences: What kinds of construction or even manipulation do we want in order to make factual footage comprehensible? Can we cope with ambiguities? What do we want from photographs, moving images and recorded sounds? What happens when we see and hear exceptional or traumatic events through documentary? On the way we meet hopeless alcoholics; gangster rappers; London firemen; and reactions to 9/11.
Learning Outcomes:
To develop an understanding of the main issues in contemporary documentary
To explore how particular filmmakers have addressed these issues in their practice
To understand how we, as contemporary viewers, relate these ideas to our own viewing experience
To explore, as far as possible, the diversity of possible responses to documentary films
To develop critical reading, research and academic skills as well as an understanding of writing digital short form content
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with course are 150. These will normally be broken down as follows: 10 hour(s) of Lecture(s) across 10 week(s) 15 hour(s) of Lecture(s) across 10 week(s) 10 hour(s) of Seminar(s) across 10 week(s) 0.5 hour(s) of Tutorials across 2 week(s) 114.5 hours of Guided Independent Study Summative Assessment: Essay (1000 Words) - 10% Short Answer Questions (1000 Words) - 10% Essay (4000 Words) - 80% |
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