Course and Module Catalogue

This module supports you in the independent production and presentation of work appropriate to final year honours degree standards. Its purpose is to help you to make concepts manifest (For graphic design, animation or graphic design and animation), in an appropriate and personal manner, whilst demonstrating a level of technical … For more content click the Read More button below. You will expand upon, develop, and make tangible ideas resulting from the Research & Development module and that reconcile issues relating to concepts, aesthetics, working context and feasibility of use in the production of multimedia artefacts and virtual environments, physical installations, photographic output, video and motion graphics works animations or other relevant media. The Advanced Studio takes place over the entire final year. You will develop, prototype, and produce, a response to a brief or projects formulated as a part of the Research & Development module. You will be expected to apply technical skills and critical awareness drawn from adjacent modules, specifically the Research and Development module as well as Theory as Practice. You are also expected to draw upon your learning in other modules undertaken over the course of your academic history. The module both encompasses and supports diverse and interdependent areas of practice and you will be expected to utilise linguistic, temporal, visual, spatial and material forms as aspects of the process. Through this module you will build upon existent technical independence, which must satisfy established pre-negotiated targets.  This will be developed and tested throughout your production of a comprehensive and cohesive body of work that reconciles concepts, aesthetics, working context and feasibility of use. Collaborative working practice with external agencies is encouraged and if pursued should form part of negotiated self-directed project management. The module aims to promote critically reflexive and innovative professional practice.  Assignments focus on portfolio and professional development through the evidencing of working practices that are reflective, highly creative and technically innovative.  In this the module is intrinsically linked to all modules within the degree programme and is explicitly serving Personal Development Planning aims.

The learning strategy is one of learning by doing.  Project work is centred on your own practice with emphasis on technical independence. Studio sessions discuss principles and theories with guidance, consultation and tutorials.  Group tutorials and individual tutorials with subject specialist covering graphic design, animation and graphic design and animation. … For more content click the Read More button below. Seminars and presentations promote debate and reflection.  Additional support will be provided through guest lectures and optional study visits.

The module will comprise of a self-directed personal brief or projects developed in response to a chosen theme.  This should encompass critical reflection and focus upon module aims and appropriate modes of production.  The Studio will incorporate a continuous programme of evaluation and reflection in relation to: Awareness of the … For more content click the Read More button below. There will be stringent professional requirements of documentation of process and presentations at key project stages with an emphasis upon self-directed time management. The practical interpretation of the brief formulated as a part of the Research & Development module will provide the context and focus of this module which culminates in a final honours exhibition / screening of a cohesive and comprehensive body of work.

Concept Development: Generate ideas, comprehensive and coherent proposals through the analysis of a theme and associated concepts at an abstract level. Exploration of a theme was demonstrated through the methodological development and documentation of appropriate creative concepts and alternatives. Aesthetics and Language: Creative decisions were made in response to thematic … For more content click the Read More button below. Technical Response: Appropriate technologies were analysed and selected in response to thematic projects. The ability to discuss these in relation to the production of the work demonstrated a command of specialised technical skills and underlying concepts. Integration and Synthesis Awareness of the need to reconcile conceptual/critical issues with the contexts of a graphic design audience is demonstrated. Conceptual and aesthetic awareness were applied and synthesised in the development of work Integration and Synthesis Awareness of the need to reconcile conceptual/critical issues with the contexts of an animation audience is demonstrated. Conceptual and aesthetic awareness were applied and synthesised in the development of work Integration and Synthesis Awareness of the need to reconcile conceptual/critical issues with the contexts of a graphic design and an animation audience is demonstrated. Conceptual and aesthetic awareness were applied and synthesised in the development of work.