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Screen Futures: Power and Lens (FLTV30031)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
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This subject is designed to give students a solid basis from which to engage with creative and cultural practices that challenge the dominant values and practice of screen culture.
Students will learn via videocasts with practitioners, from interdisciplinary and diverse artistic backgrounds, who are creating screen works that challenge and disrupt modes of representation.
Through an intersectional lens, students will reflect on power and positionality, in the context of the historical and ongoing colonisation. Students will critically engage with a range of storytelling practices, texts, and methodologies to provide perspectives that challenge firmly established paradigms within the screen and arts-based industries.
The subject is taught and led by diverse scholarship, pedagogies, and practitioners in creative and cultural practices.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- identify key critical considerations around decolonial practice, including positionality;
- explain the relationship between intersectionality, cultural safety and inclusive practice in a filmmaking environment;
- address key structural considerations (structure, institution, colonialism) in terms of representation and access;
- communicate alternative modalities of filmmaking and practice;
- critically reflect on positionality in relation to practice;
- create a screen-based concept and short film that engages with an inclusive framework.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- display an enhanced understanding of filmmaking techniques and styles for the screen;
- apply a broad range of communication skills with cultural and linguistical diversity awareness;
- critically and constructively review their own and peer's work with a growing understanding of alternative screen forms and their storytelling potential;
- research and apply current professional practices in their own film and television work;
- demonstrate a broad awareness of the various paths into the film and television industry;
- critically reflect upon processes, decisions, and development as a film practitioner who can enact cultural safety.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the B-FAFILMTV Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Completion of set extension activities
| During the teaching period | 25% |
Audiovisual Creative Project
| End of the teaching period | 25% |
Critical Analysis
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of all scheduled classes. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Students must submit all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject. For the purposes of meeting this hurdle requirement, each submitted assessment must be complete and constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. Submitting only part of an assessment (e.g. only the title page) or an assessment on an irrelevant topic will not meet this hurdle requirement. | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Anna Helme Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising six 2-hour tutorials, 6 hours of online primer material, and 18 hours of practical workshops Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2023 to 28 May 2023 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2023 Census date 31 March 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2023 Assessment period ends 23 June 2023
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Students must meet the course entry requirements in order to be considered for a CAP enrolment in this subject. Approval to be sought from the course coordinator.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024