2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

FILM5001M Videographic Criticism

30 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Dr Christopher Homewood
Email: c.j.homewood@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module gives students the opportunity to engage conceptually and practically with videographic criticism as a creative and experimental way to produce and communicate scholarly knowledge about film. The module will introduce students to video essays that range from the explanatory to the exploratory and the poetic and offer useful models to consider as students undertake their own projects.

Objectives

This module aims:
• to explore creative-critical scholarship that engages with moving-image media as a mode of academic enquiry
• to explore current practices of videographic criticism, with a focus on the video essay
• to assess debates about the affordances of videographic criticism and about the form that video essays should take
• to develop creative and practical skills in videographic presentation by learning the rhetoric and craft of creating such work

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. to engage conceptually with videographic criticism as a mode of scholarly rhetoric
2. to engage creatively and practically with videographic criticism as a form of audiovisual thinking and scholarship
3. to employ effectively basic functionalities on a digital editing platform.

On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. to appraise and evaluate knowledge which includes but extends beyond traditional forms of scholarly expression
5. to analyse information, synthesise views, and make connections between different sources of information and knowledge
6. to interpret and analyse information from a number of sources in order to propose creative solutions to a defined problem
7. to discriminate amongst information and evidence through identifying and evaluating factors such as the currency, reliability, relevance, authorship or completeness

Syllabus

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
seminars	6	2.00	12.00
Practicals	4	2.00	8.00
Private study hours			280.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored via regular production and discussion of short video essays (formative), thus providing a robust peer learning environment in which students learn from each other rather than just the module tutor. Students will be given formal feedback on their first assessment (literature review, 30%) to develop their skills in the approaches and concepts that underpin videographic criticism. This and the weekly in-seminar discussion/feedback will then aid students in the conceptualisation and production of their final assessment – a creative-critical video essay and short companion text that contextualises the work and set out its academic goals and rhetorical means (70%)

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Coursework	Literature Review	30.00
Coursework	Video Essay and short commentary	70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/05/2024

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