SCME2105 The Filmmaker: Case Studies

This topic will examine a body of work organised around a single filmmaker, for example a producer, director, actor, writer or artist in any form of audio-visual production. It will consider this work within its industrial and historical contexts, address key stylistic, generic or other aesthetic issues as well as introduce students to critical concepts associated with the work.

This topic aims to:

• Provide a detailed knowledge of an individual filmmaker within the commercial and the social contexts which inform him or her
• Introduce students to the critical and theoretical concepts used to analyse the work of an individual producer of screen-based media
• Develop students' analytical skills and their capacity to research and apply their understanding to a range of practices in independent research or the production of screen media

1. Evaluate and employ a critical and theoretical terminology used to analyse both individual works and the commercial/industrial contexts in which they are made
2. Employ an understanding of screen history and aesthetics in creative practices
3. Undertake supervised research and present an argument