This module requires you to innovate and engage in cutting-edge filmmaking practice, extending your professional skillset and portfolio in preparation for taking the next step into the industry. This self-initiated film production project challenges you to further advance the knowledge, skills and experience gained during Negotiated Project 1 and produce industry-standard work. Reflecting on previous film production experiences, you will refine your filmmaking practice and create a showcase film that demonstrates an industry-standard filmmaking competency to potential employers.

You will collaborate with peers, developing a supportive community of practice where you will challenge each other’s ideas and provide a critical sounding board for the development of innovative creative practice. To enable your complex and ambitious projects to move from inception to distribution you will professionally engage in crewing roles for each other, applying industry-standard skillets. Your completed films will become a calling card for you as an emerging professional filmmaker and have a clearly defined distribution strategy.

The module provides broad scope and autonomy for you to extensively research, develop and produce creative personal work that pushes the boundaries of storytelling and considers new approaches to your areas of interest. Showcasing professional-level creative, organisational, and technical competencies, your project will play a key role in supporting your future career aspirations.

Your Production File will demonstrate a professional level of competency in coordinating a film through the entire production process. Your Production File will demonstrate the breadth and depth of informed critical research and creative ideas generation that you have used to synthesise your ideas. It will also demonstrate your innovation, attention to detail, organisation and understanding of the industry-leading production processes. The comprehensive portfolio will provide significant evidence for potential employers that you have the advanced knowledge, understanding and cutting-edge skills required to be a future leader in the film production industry.

Engaging in intellectual and critical discussion about your completed film and professional practice, you will use the VIVA assessment to reflect about your approach to self-directed learning and how your completed project will inform your future filmmaking practice.

1. Negotiated Film Production – Assessing Learning Outcomes – 1, 3, 4, and 5 – Weighted at 70%

2. Production File – Assessing Learning Outcomes – 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 – Weighted at 15%

3. VIVA – Assessing Learning Outcomes – 1, 4, 6 and 8– Weighted at 15%

Learning strategies used in this module are grounded in a student-led approach, where learners have the autonomy to choose their direction of study, conduct independent learning and negotiate project aims, objectives and outputs.

Whilst this module challenges learners to develop independence, students will engage with a community of practice, where they will share and debate ideas and discuss their project developments with staff and peers.

Students are supported through tutorials, where staff will adopt a coaching methodology, encouraging students to self-reflect and evaluate their progress and find their own solutions to problems.

Authenticity

Demonstrate a systematic understanding of innovative filmmaking practice, including the acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge within a negotiated field of study.

Use appropriate research and reflection methods to inform the advancement and evaluation of your filmmaking practice.

Identify a range of creative and technical solutions to film production challenges and use decision-making in complex and unpredictable filmmaking situations.

Communicate and analyse theoretical, creative and technical considerations that have informed your negotiated film project and overall filmmaking practice.

Using key findings from your initiated research and creative exploration, apply industry-standard, cutting-edge filmmaking practices and processes to an innovative self-directed filmmaking project.

Critically evaluate your creative, technical, and logistical decision-making and analyse strengths and areas for development within your film and filmmaking practice.

Engage others through effective leadership; contribute and support productivity, accepting responsibility for individual strengths and areas for development.

Acquire, evaluate, and organise new knowledge in the pursuit of fulfilling self-initiated goals within a negotiated filmmaking project.

Portable video and audio recording equipment

Specialist Media Labs – Post-Production Editing, Sound Mixing, Colour Grading

Library Books and Journals

Blackboard Learning Environment

LinkedIn Learning

Academic Study Skills Tutors

In the context of your own filmmaking project, you will be expected to research and reference relevant and appropriate textbooks, journals and audio-visual resources that have informed the content of your film and theoretical, creative, and technical decisions you have made. You will also communicate with current filmmaking practitioners to inform filmmaking practices used in this project.

Some general reference texts for creative practice, project management and critical reflection:

Bassot, B. (2015) The Reflective Practice Guide: An interdisciplinary Approach to Critical Reflection. Routledge.

Candy, L. (2019) The Creative Reflective Practitioner: Research Through Making Practice. Routledge.

Congdon, L. (2019) Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic. Chronicle Books LLC.

Kara, H. (2020) Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. Bristol: Policy Press.

Maylor, D. (2022) Project Management. 5th ed. Harlow: Pearson.

This module requires you to innovate and engage in cutting-edge filmmaking practice, extending your professional skillset and portfolio in preparation for taking the next step into the industry. This self-initiated film production project challenges you to further advance the knowledge, skills and experience gained during Negotiated Project 1. Reflecting on previous film production experiences, you will refine your filmmaking practice and create a showcase film that demonstrates an industry-standard filmmaking competency to potential employers.