CTF634 : Project/academic exercise / College of Creative Arts

The course provides final year students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills by preparing a production project or academic exercise in the form of dissertation writing. The academic exercise will be a piece of written work which investigates a key question and presented in the form of a detailed argument. The analysis and discussion will be structured according to specific conventions, but normally include the abstract, introduction, specific chapters, conclusion and record of sources used. The production project will usually entail the production of a final piece of work (for example, short film/video, film/television/theatre script, drama/dance performance, event management, animated short). This is an ideal way for production students to demonstrate skills in, for example, cinematography, editing, scriptwriting, acting, dancing, medium-specific skills, working with others in crew and putting together a production which is assessed by staff and increasingly by peers. The project is usually supported by an accompanying rationale which justifies and discusses the logic of the project.