| Learning Strategies |
| A programme co-ordinator will assume responsibility for the arrangements associated with undertaking projects, including monitoring the progress of the student group as a whole and organising the assessment of productions. |
| Projects may be prepared on an individual, or group, basis and will be supervised by a member of the related course boards. A collective group (pool) will meet early in the academic year to review project proposals and outline specifications. Over the course of this module students will develop their own detailed Project Proposals in response to specifications provided. |
| During the early stages of the Content Design module students will be expected to identify their `area of interest?. While ideas need not be wholly defined at the very outset, they will need to have identified particular questions and loci of attention. The student, with advice from supervisor(s), will establish detailed project specifications in terms of individual objectives, methods and resource requirements. The student will meet regularly with the supervisor who will monitor progress, checking achievement against the agreed (original, or revised) objectives. |
| Over the course of the semester, each student will make 2 interim and 1 final presentation of their project, in a formal setting, to their peers and to members of the supervisory collective. The final presentation of the research and design will be made at the end of the semester. |
| Throughout the semester the proposed concepts will be evaluated from a range of perspectives during critique sessions; presentations and submission of reflective journals/sketchbooks. The Critique Sessions and collective workshops will be delivered in a dedicated studio space, allocated to the MA Creative Media candidates, to facilitate the Studio - Content Design module. Collective sessions will allow the students to reflect on their creative processes and those of others. |
| Some aspects of the programme, such as guest lectures, will be delivered remotely within the fully-equipped dedicated workspace provided |
| This module will potentially support either individual or collaborative project proposals and will assist the students in their interrogation of the project idea, any roles within it and it?s planned execution. Any collaborative aspects must be identified, thoroughly explored and documentated at the pre-production stage. |
| While the student?s creative processes will be supported directly through this module, it is envisaged that the other concurrent modules will impact the work produced in the studio module. These influences will too be represented in the final Design Proposal document, such as: the research methodologies used to explore the area of interest; the ability to critique and contextualise the proposed artifact; the engagement with appropriate technologies; the commercialisation of the proposal deliverable where appropriate and/or, the professional issues surrounding its production. The Studio Practice module thereby brings the independent modules together, to ensure that ideas are thoroughly challenged via this array of contexts. |
| The sections of the Major Design Proposal Document:<br>Section 1: Technology, Art, Society: Theories of Displacement, Fracture and Simulacra<br>Section 2: Creative Media Research (included as the submission for assessment for the Research module)<br>Section 3: Technologies in Context (included as the submission for assessment for the Technologies in context module)<br>Section 4: Professional Practice/Issues (included as the submission for assessment for the Professional Practice module)<br>Section 5: Studio Practice (Design) - Creative processes and content pre-production (included as the submission for assessment for the Studio Practice module) Students will outline their creative process and the planned execution of their major project using a set of headings provided<br> |
| Section 5 - Design Proposal Document will include:<br>Part A: Working Title; Project Rational/ Background of proposed work; Aim(s) and Objective(s) of proposed work; Identification of Audience/Context<br>Part B:Form, Media and Format choices for the proposed work; Technical Research & Delivery Mechanism(s); Anticipated Challenges for Production and Post-Production stages; Content Documents for each phase (i.e. what content will be generated for each component) and Anticipated user experience<br>Part C: Ideas Log; Process Trail; Sketching; Information Structures; Navigation/Interactivity Structure; Schematics; Storyboards; scripts; maps; illustrative diagrams, Visual flats or models where applicable<br>Part D: Functional technological research; basic working application of any new software or hardware, if applicable<br>Iterative prototyping (cognitive walkthrough using simulations, audience response)<br>Part E: Log of processes, Reflective jounals/sketchbooks<br> |
| The Indicative Syllabus Content of the Studio Content Design module outlines a set of 10 areas and associated practices that may be addressed over the course of the module. These 10 areas are listed to provide detail and clarity in relation to the chronology and structure of the module. For the purposes of assessment these 10 headings will be assessed over 3 assessments, bundled together as a 10%, 30% and 60% assessment respectively |
| Hard copy and electronic reading lists will be devised on a year-by-year basis, and will be given to students as part of the Project Guidelines Documentation. In addition to this each student will devise their own reading list which will be dependent on their area of interest. |
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