This module provides foundational skills and knowledge for digital media practice. It emphasizes a theoretically-steered form of creative practice (“praxis”) as a means of encouraging critical thinking about the concerns of digital media and networked life through media-making.
Students will begin engaging with and creating media such as still images; interactive media; audio; and audiovisual time-based media, among others. They will begin to build an understanding of meaning-making through critically analysing examples of creative media alongside texts written by (or aimed toward) a range of media arts practitioners.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
demonstrate familiarity with compelling examples of digital media that are legible to others in the field
demonstrate proficiency in multiple digital production platforms and media
engage critically with the sociopolitical concerns of digital media through production
use critical thinking to make meaning through creative media
Assessment
36236-01 : Discovering Creative Practice A : Coursework (25%)
36236-07 : Discovering Creative Practice B : Coursework (75%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment: Portfolio, equivalent to 1,500-words (75%) Reflective statement, 500-words (25%)
Method of Reassessment: Re-submission of failed component(s)
