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MDS-40016 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2022/23 Last Updated: 19 January 2023

MDS-40016 - Creative Media Practice
Coordinator: Mandy Mcateer Tel: +44 1782 7 33499
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 30
Study Hours: 300
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2022/23

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2022/23

This module allows postgraduate students to engage in creative pre-production techniques and devise, theorise, and plan a full-scale media project (suitable for the option module MDS-40015). Pre-production work and project planning can take many forms, including a mixture of media including photographic projects, moving image projects (narrative film, documentary etc.), web projects, animations and installations. The project idea will be based on a topic agreed between the student and the supervisor and will be informed by current theories related to globalisation, and/or postcolonialism, and/or a related area. Both assessment components should draw on relevant theoretical material from the core modules MDS-40029 Mediated Communications: Theory and Practice and MDS-40018: Globalisation, Culture, Media.

Aims
To enable postgraduate students to develop a sustained professional practice by researching and planning a major media/cultural project.
To utilize professional practical techniques within a theoretical/intellectual framework.
To develop a media project informed by current theories from the field of media and cultural studies such as those relating to globalisation, postcolonialism, etc.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/mds-40016/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

Devise, theorise, and plan a creative media/cultural project drawing on theories and texts related to postcolonialism and/or globalisation and/or a related area: 1,2
Undertake research and critically evaluate the work of other media/cultural practitioners within the context of their own concepts and ideas: 1,2
Evaluate critically their own concepts, ideas and professional practice: 1,2
Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of contemporary media/cultural practice and theory: 1,2
Engage with issues related to globalisation and/or postcolonialism and/or a related area: 1,2

Study hours

10 hours orientation
10 hours direct supervision
70 hours conceptualising and planning
70 hours researching
70 hours independent studio/lab work (during this time, staff will be on hand informally to provide advice and guidance)
70 hours writing up



School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Presentation weighted 30%
15 minutes multimedia presentation
15 minutes long multimedia presentation. Students will deliver a multimedia presentation focusing on their planned media/cultural project. The presentation will outline their aims, the theoretical context of the project, detailed analyses of relevant/comparable media texts and creative approaches to be employed. Students will make use of PowerPoint or any other similar presentation software. The feedback received from the tutors for this assessment component should feed into the students' development of the pre-production portfolio (assessment 2).

2: Portfolio weighted 70%
A pre-production portfolio
Students produce a pre-production portfolio for a Media Project which should include research on and analysis of the work of other media practitioners, a range of ideas considered, a description of the creative process and techniques needed to undertake the work, relevant theoretical frameworks for approaching and analysing the project, and a critical self evaluation. The portfolio details the idea development, rationale, and pre-production methods that underpin the creation of a full-scale Media Project (suitable for the MDS-40015 option module). The written components of the portfolio should be 4000 words; where relevant, the work should also include image-based artefacts (originally produced and/or the work of others, examined as part of the research and analysis components). Students should incorporate feedback received from the tutors for assessment 1.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 19 January 2023