2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

COMM3880 Cinema Project

40 creditsClass Size: 30

Module manager: John Edmonds
Email: icsjme@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Students should have previously studied COMM2890 or COMM2615.

Pre-requisites

COMM2615	Documentary Production
COMM2890	Short Film Production

This module is mutually exclusive with

COMM3655	Individual Project (Drama)
COMM3890	Photography Project
COMM3910	Communication Dissertation

Module replaces

COMM3860 Cinema & Photography Project

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- facilitate learning at advanced level on the principles and practices of short film (digital cinema) production, through the fulfilment of at least one primary production role within a small-crew group production.
- allow students to demonstrate their creative, analytical and critical learning and personal development in the field of cinematic production.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- understand their specialist role, its challenges and demands and its relationship to the creative development of a production, informed by recent research/scholarship.
- respond to the demands of working in digital cinema production and reflect professional practices.
- demonstrate self-management, independent learning, decision-making and autonomy in the planning of a creative project.
- demonstrate advanced and innovative creative and technical skills in the production of digital cinema.
- demonstrate through digital cinema production practices and critical self-assessment an advanced understanding of their specialist area of production and its relationship to other specialist areas.

Syllabus

Students on this course undertake self-directed study under academic supervision, either as individuals or small groups in the production of a final short film (digital cinema) project intended for public viewing.
Following introductory lectures, teaching will take the form of regular supervision meetings to support pre-production, production and post-production work-in-progress leading up to the submission of a completed production in the chosen form. A substantial piece of reflective, analytical writing will be produced in relation to the production role chosen by each student, along with a critical evaluation of the completed project.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group learning	4	1.00	4.00
Lecture	1	1.00	1.00
Seminar	2	2.00	4.00
Tutorial	24	0.50	12.00
Private study hours			379.00
Total Contact hours			21.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Film pre-production: 30 hours
Film post-production: 30 hours
Research and production of project report (critical evaluation of completed film): 34 hours
Production Work (Group): 168 hours
Production Work (Individual): 126 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- 3 x supervision meetings (individual)
- 4 x supervision meetings (production group)
- 2 x work-in-progress seminars

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	Drama/Fiction or Documentary/Non-Fiction Film 10 - 15 Minutes	40.00
Essay	Production Role Reflective Analysis 5,000 - 5,500 words	60.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

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

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 04/06/2024 10:40:42

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