Moving Image BA(Hons)

Year 1

Year 1 has four themed units – identity, place, fiction and documentary – each lasting six to seven weeks.

Each week, group seminars, individual tutorials and screenings of relevant films help you develop your ideas and you present a finished piece in the last week. In this final session you make a formal presentation of your work to the group, learn to critique other student’s work, and also receive feedback from two tutors.

The units are underpinned by a series of introductory technical workshops, film screenings, study support sessions, and by lectures from staff and visiting lecturers.

One day each week is set aside for Historical and Theoretical studies, which take the form of a lecture series with seminar sessions and film screenings. Students read and summarise weekly texts using library study time and complete one final essay per semester.

Historical and Critical Studies in year 1 covers film history then moving on to an in-depth study of the avant-garde and film and video art histories.

You are expected to work independently on your projects, making full use of the facilities: cameras and audio recording equipment, computer editing software and studios.

Modules

• Practice 1: Moving Image and Identity

• Practice 2: Moving Image and Place

• Practice 3: Moving Image and Fiction

• Practice 4: Moving Image and Documentary

• Historical and Critical Studies 1: From Magic Lantern to YouTube

• Historical and Critical Studies 2: One Million Avant-Gardes

Year 2

In the second year your four units of study encourage a more focused approach to the combination of sound and vision. You'll look at a range of art practices and recognise the importance of how finished works are presented whether in the gallery, cinema or online.

The projects are: Sound and Vision, Collaboration, Black Box White Cube as well as one day a week on an option in another area of the university.

The second year show is an opportunity to exhibit publicly in the university gallery.

At the end of the year you'll undertake an independent project which prepares you for the more self-directed study of the third year.

Once again lectures and seminars take place weekly, introducing you to key concepts in contemporary practice, as well as an in depth look at sound and film.

The end of the second year covers dissertation preparation and research skills.

Modules

• Practices 5 and 6: Collaboration, and Sound and Vision

• Practice 7: Beyond Black Box/White Cube

• Practice 8: Independent Project

• Historical and Critical Studies 3: Sound/Music and The Moving Image

• Historical and Critical Studies 4: The Cinema of Others, Research Methodologies and Extended Essay Proposal

• Option from arts and humanities modules

Final year

In the third year you develop your own personal work through two major projects, while also writing an extended essay. 

You are allocated tutors who supervise the development of your ideas. Tutorials are also offered with other members of staff. Regular group crits allow students to build projects with the support of their peers and staff.

For your projects you can expect to have six or seven tutorial slots during a semester, either on your own or with a small group you can share ideas with.

One-to-one technical support is focused on each individual student project, ending with a public exhibition of work in the graduate show.

Professional practice sessions are taught in the last semester to help prepare you for life after graduation.

Modules

• Practice 9: Major Project

• Practice 10: Major Project

• Historical and Critical Studies 5: Extended essay

• Professional Practice