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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. |
| MU 3304 - Issues in Sound, Music & MI |
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Associated Term:
2024/25 Academic Session
Learning Objectives:
The module provides an introduction to a particular aspect of sonic practices with the moving image. The course will focus on a particular film sound context or approach defined chronologically, generically, or by composer (where appropriate). The exact content of the course will vary from year to year, but might include one or more of the following:
• The Sounds of Early Cinema
• Narrative Film Music and Hollywood
• Contemporary Theory and Analysis of Music and the Moving Image;
• Auteur Film Music
• The Hollywood Musical
• The Sounds of Television
• Music and Animation
• The Sounds of Video Games
• Recontextualised Music
• Opera and Screen
• European Film Music
• Hindi film
Learning Outcomes:
1. Analyse the key sonic features of the body of moving image examples studied by using an array of critical-theoretical ideas and technical terminology.
2. Evaluate the theoretical context for the music and sounds studied.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the generic aspects of the film music and sound studied, and their wider film production context.
4. Explain the moving image sound culture that forms the focus of the unit and demonstrate an understanding of its historical position among moving image development as a whole.
5. Understand how the cinematic apparatus and film exhibition practices have been used and the consequent aesthetic results.
6. Critically evaluate relevant theoretical texts.
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with module is 150. This will normally be broken down as follows: 20 hour(s) of Lecture(s) across 10 week(s) 130 hours of Guided Independent Study Formative Assessment: essay draft (2000 words)Summative Assessment: Essay/Research project (3000 words) - 70% Presentation and reflection (5 / 500 minutes and words) - 30% |
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