DFB308 Fashion Media
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| Unit code: | DFB308 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 48 credit points of Fashion units (DF% coded) |
| Equivalent(s): | DFB205 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,704 |
| International unit fee | $4,944 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DFB308 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 48 credit points of Fashion units (DF% coded) |
| Equivalent: | DFB205 |
| Coordinator: | Tim Lindgren | timothy.lindgren@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit offers insight into the connection between media and fashion image making. It takes a critical historical, interdisciplinary and industrial approach to the study of fashion media, exploring media and digital social platforms that have contributed to the dissemination of fashion. Cross-pollination between fashion and media platforms from different historical times has contributed to the formation of taste, along with cultural and consumer discourses. This unit explores the evolving and complex fashion communication landscape that has captured key changes in fashion culture and industry, and the fragmentation and opening up of fashion communication to global consumers and identities.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Examine the cultural and commercial relationship between media and fashion industries.
- Create a short fashion film and justify its relevance from a contemporary point of view.
- Collaborate with peers to plan and document the fashion film making process.
- Analyse cultural factors in fashion and how they are represented in digital media.
Content
This unit addresses content such as:
- fashion photography and film - their history and their contemporary developments through a study of aesthetics and industry
- the performance of fashion through diverse perspectives
- new media platforms and their centrality to new ways in which fashion circulates and is disseminated globally
- the spaces of future fashion media
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures
- tutorials
- online learning materials and readings
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during workshops. You will receive summative individual comments in addition to generic comments to the cohort via Canvas and the online criteria sheet.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments in this unit.
1. Short Fashion Film - This task will require critical thinking, effective communication, and teamwork, as well as the ability to create a short fashion film and justify your design with an accompanying report. Overall, this assessment will help you hone your fashion design skills and gain practical experience in working with others to develop a cohesive and compelling collection.
2. Fashion in New Media Critique - This assessment will require strong research and analytical skills, as well as the ability to think critically and present a coherent and well-supported argument. Through this task, you will gain a deeper understanding of the role of social media in shaping contemporary fashion trends and the broader cultural landscape.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Short Fashion Film
Assessment: Fashion in New Media Critique
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
You will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection and specialised software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. Costs will vary depending on capability and storage requirements. There will be some costs incurred with the purchase of materials for your project.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Short Fashion Film - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, Short Fashion Film
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Online
| Unit code: | DFB308 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 48 credit points of Fashion units (DF% coded) |
| Equivalent: | DFB205 |
Overview
This unit offers insight into the connection between media and fashion image making. It takes a critical historical, interdisciplinary and industrial approach to the study of fashion media, exploring media and digital social platforms that have contributed to the dissemination of fashion. Cross-pollination between fashion and media platforms from different historical times has contributed to the formation of taste, along with cultural and consumer discourses. This unit explores the evolving and complex fashion communication landscape that has captured key changes in fashion culture and industry, and the fragmentation and opening up of fashion communication to global consumers and identities.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Examine the cultural and commercial relationship between media and fashion industries.
- Create a short fashion film and justify its relevance from a contemporary point of view.
- Collaborate with peers to plan and document the fashion film making process.
- Analyse cultural factors in fashion and how they are represented in digital media.
Content
This unit addresses content such as:
- fashion photography and film - their history and their contemporary developments through a study of aesthetics and industry
- the performance of fashion through diverse perspectives
- new media platforms and their centrality to new ways in which fashion circulates and is disseminated globally
- the spaces of future fashion media
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures
- tutorials
- online learning materials and readings
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during workshops. You will receive summative individual comments in addition to generic comments to the cohort via Canvas and the online criteria sheet.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments in this unit.
1. Short Fashion Film - This task will require critical thinking, effective communication, and teamwork, as well as the ability to create a short fashion film and justify your design with an accompanying report. Overall, this assessment will help you hone your fashion design skills and gain practical experience in working with others to develop a cohesive and compelling collection.
2. Fashion in New Media Critique - This assessment will require strong research and analytical skills, as well as the ability to think critically and present a coherent and well-supported argument. Through this task, you will gain a deeper understanding of the role of social media in shaping contemporary fashion trends and the broader cultural landscape.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Short Fashion Film
Assessment: Fashion in New Media Critique
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
You will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection and specialised software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. Costs will vary depending on capability and storage requirements. There will be some costs incurred with the purchase of materials for your project.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Short Fashion Film - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Short Fashion Film, Fashion in New Media Critique - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO3, Short Fashion Film