A portfolio of experimental moving image work assessing learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (60%)

Filmmaker Artists Notebook and evaluation of learning experience on the module assessing learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (40%)

This module aims to provide you with an opportunity to develop the relevant skills involved in making experimental films, or what is perceived as an experimental film.
This will involve a series of workshops for you to learn and discover new tools to help you experiment with your filmmaking.

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of how to experiment within the context of being an experimental film production student. Topics will include understanding/communicating to audience’s, subjects, ideas, themes in an innovative and different way.

• You will attend a series of lectures around the topics of experimental film-making and what this has meant historically and what new things are happening in the present.
• You will do a series of exercises that help and enrich your filmmaking these will be in experimenting and researching your film.
• You will create a series of short video experiments that will form a portfolio of work.
• This will be also documented in your Filmmakers Artists Notebook/Sketchbook and also reflected upon in your Evaluation.

Scheduled learning activities
Technical Instruction and workshop experimental film production skills
Academic Lectures / Seminars / Film Screening
Small group sessions (seminars, tutorials, debates)
Short exercises and assignments that help you to apply and evaluate your learning


Guided independent and group study activities
Personal development planning
Film/Moving Image Production, project work and skill development
Peer Advisor meetings
Teamwork
Blackboard VLE
Independent Study in support of your project work
Independent research and promotion into National and International film festivals and competitions.
You will be expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities

Ramey, K. (2015) Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE, Focal Press ISBN-10: 0240823966
Library Class Number: 791.430232.
Rees, Al. (2011) A History of Experimental Film & Video, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10: 1844574369
Library Class Number: 791.4361109

Level 5 camera, lighting, sound, studio and post production facilities
Library facilities web, computer access, printing facilities.
Blackboard virtual learning environment
Film Theatre screening and viewing facilities
Lynda.com Online learning Resource.

1. DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING, THE PRINCIPLES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT.
Knowledge and Understanding

2. RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH AND INDEPENDENT LEARNING AS A MEANS TO INFORM AND GAIN KNOWLEDGE, TO IDENTIFY AND USE A PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH TO LEARNING THROUGH PARTICIPATION.
Learning

3. CRITICALLY EVALUATE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO SOLVING PROBLEMS AND PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ARISING FROM PRODUCTION.
Problem Solving

4. DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT MATTER, CARRY OUT INDEPENDENT STUDY AND PRACTICE THE TECHNIQUES DISCUSSED AND DEVELOPED. TO DEVELOP THEMES OF PERSONAL INTEREST AND IDENTITY. TO PRODUCE A FILM/MOVING IMAGE PRODUCTION OF INTEREST THAT INTRIGUES OR ENTERTAINS.
Application

5. TO CRITIQUE AND REFLECT ON THE CREATIVE, TECHNICAL, LOGISTICAL DECISION MAKING MADE WITHIN THE REALM OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM-MAKING
Reflection