Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

NB: Information in this Unit Outline is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Creating digital media requires an advanced understanding of audio-visual codes and conventions. It requires the ability to recognise various forms of screen-based media in the creative industries and understand how they construct meaning through technical, formal, symbolic and conceptual devices. Creating digital media also requires the ability to combine this knowledge with a range of specialised technical skills. In this unit, you will be introduced to the key formal devices and techniques operating across a broad range of digital media and moving image works. You will also learn how to acquire, manipulate and format digital media to create your own moving image works.

This unit is concurrently taught with KVP404, with appropriate learning outcomes tailored for undergraduate students.

Aims

This unit aims to provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills to identify and interpret a broad range of contemporary and historical moving image works. It also aims to provide you with technical skills so that you can apply this knowledge to construct digital media.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. Identify, interpret and articulate the audio-visual languages of a broad range of digital media that use moving images
2. Apply techniques, skills and knowledge to create digital media artworks using moving images
3. Exercise a broad and coherent understanding of moving image forms, practices and concepts relevant to Visual Arts

Content

This unit focuses on the evolution of audio-visual codes through the history of the moving image. It connects a broad range of screen-based and digital media with social and historical contexts as well as key formal and conceptual devices. The unit further focuses on the practical and technical skills necessary to acquire, manipulate and format digital media.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit is delivered via a combination of lectures and computer labs. Activities are designed to investigate specific themes pertaining to the lecture series. They offer an opportunity to engage with tutors, classmates and with the languages of digital media and the moving image. Computer lab activities are designed to include practical demonstrations, class discussions, assessment item work and personal consultation.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester. Weight: 0%

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will be awarded a final grade on a 1 to 7 scale.

Assessment name: Oral Critique
Description: You will present a formal analysis of a short moving image example.
Relates to objectives: 1
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid Semester

Assessment name: Creative Work
Description: You will create a digital media artwork using moving images. You will also write a short statement articulating the key concepts, forms and techniques employed in your artwork.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Late Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Text:

There are no required texts for this unit. Updated recommended readings will be available on the unit Blackboard site.

Recommended References:

Bordwell, David. 1997. On the History of Film Style. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Branigan, Edward. 1992. Narrative Comprehension and Film. London: Routledge.

Grau, Oliver. (ed.). 2007. Media Art Histories. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press.

Manovich, Lev. 2001. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 26-Mar-2013