| Unit name | Screen Style and Aesthetics |
|---|---|
| Unit code | FATVM0013 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Gaggiotti |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | Department of Film and Television |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit investigates issues in screen aesthetics through detailed examination of how screenworks, drawn from film and/or television and/or related media, employ the facilities of their particular medium to shape meaning. Screenworks are selected from a range of periods and places, guided primarily by the extent to which each individual text may reward close and repeated scrutiny. Seminars will provide the opportunity to explore the workings and significance of particular sequences and draw connections to wider aesthetic questions and philosophical ideas. Students will be encouraged to analyse with increasing sensitivity and express considered judgements with precision, care and evidential reasoning. Matters to be explored may include the expressive role of particular components of screen style, such as colour, sound, or gesture, in relation to topics such as medium-ontology, synthesis, ambiguity, motifs and patterning, diegesis, tone, rhetoric, viewpoint and interpretation. The unit will also consider accomplishments and principles involved in forms of criticism which seek to articulate the grounds of aesthetic experience in particular objects.
Aims:
Seminars and screenings.
How you will be assessed
Close-reading Analysis Exercise (Formative) (ILOs 2;4)
Essay, 4000 words (100%) (ILOs 1-4)
When assessment does not go to plan
When required by the Board of Examiners, you will normally complete reassessments in the same formats as those outlined above. However, the Board reserves the right to modify the form or number of reassessments required. Details of reassessments are normally confirmed by the School shortly after the notification of your results at the end of the academic year.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. FATVM0013).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
