KPB120 Contemporary Screen Histories
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| Unit code: | KPB120 |
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| Equivalent(s): | KPB109, KIB108, KNB121 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $3,828 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KPB120 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KPB109, KIB108, KNB121 |
| Coordinator: | Peter Schembri | p.schembri@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit engages with contemporary screen productions and the ways in which they look and sound. It assists you to develop an appreciation of the artistic and cinematic production practices of key individuals and studios. The styles of recent screen productions (how they look and sound) are the result of past and contemporary creative innovations associated with key individuals, production houses, and studios over an extended period of time. This unit considers the styles of screen productions such as motion pictures as being the result of evolving production practices, technological developments, individual and collaborative creative endeavours, and audience expectations.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a broad and coherent historical understanding of past and contemporary developments in the creative styles, forms, and practices of recent screen productions, taking into account practitioners, studios, technologies, and audiences.
- Demonstrate analytical and informed creative responses to theoretical and technical questions arising when engaging with historically-contextualised, contemporary screen productions.
- Communicate interpretations of historically-contextualised recent screen productions to specialist and non-specialist audiences through the use of written, visual, and oral languages.
Content
This unit encourages you to explore content such as the history of technological innovation and its impact on contemporary creative practice; key stylistic developments in recent screen productions; creative and cinematic production practices of individuals and studios; and a historically-contextualised understanding of audience expectations in the contemporary era.
Learning Approaches
This unit has been designed to support your learning via various learning approaches. This means you are encouraged to engage with thematically-linked presentations and lectures, and to utilise and interact with the supporting online learning materials and resources. You will view numerous examples online and you then have the opportunity to discuss your ideas with feedback from teaching staff and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
In this unit you will receive feedback on your learning as general comments from teaching staff communicated to the cohort during classes, and via the Canvas website. Tutorials are opportunities to receive more specific feedback from your teachers and peers. Also by offering constructive feedback yourself to your peers during class and as part of group projects you will learn to articulate and shape your creative and critical thinking. For assessable work you will receive comments from your teachers on criterion-referenced grading sheets.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assignments for this unit. The first is a video essay. This assignment has both individual and group components. The second is an individual critical essay where you respond to key concepts raised in the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Video Essay
Group members collaborate to develop a common theme that engages with the style of a contemporary practitioner's or a studio's creative work over an historical period. Individual students within the group research different stylistic influences evident in this creative work, and then transfer their research into video format in consultation with other group members in order to create a coherent, thematically-unified video essay. One half of your grade will be for your individual contribution. One half of your grade will be for group work.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Critical Response
For this assessment you are required to write an essay in which you critically evaluate the changing creative influences and impact of innovative technologies and/or techniques on the cinematic style of a recent screen production.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
In addition to the listed references, other resources and readings will be made available via the Canvas unit website.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Dixon, Wheeler W., & Foster Gwendolyn A. (2013). A Short History of Film. New Brunswick NJ.: Rutgers University Press.
Available from Ebook Library via the QUT Library Online Catalogue.
Reference book(s)
Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kirsten; & Smith, Jeff (2020). Film Art: An Introduction (12th edition). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Cook, David A. (2016). A History of Narrative Film (5th edition). New York: W.W. Norton.
Davis, Glyn et al. (2015). Film Studies: A Global Introduction. New York: Routledge. Ebook via QUT Library Online Catalogue.
Kolker, Robert P. (2016). Film, Form, and Culture (4th edit). London: Routledge. Ebook via the QUT Library Online Catalogue.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
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 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO2 - 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: ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KPB120 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KPB109, KIB108, KNB121 |
Overview
This unit engages with contemporary screen productions and the ways in which they look and sound. It assists you to develop an appreciation of the artistic and cinematic production practices of key individuals and studios. The styles of recent screen productions (how they look and sound) are the result of past and contemporary creative innovations associated with key individuals, production houses, and studios over an extended period of time. This unit considers the styles of screen productions such as motion pictures as being the result of evolving production practices, technological developments, individual and collaborative creative endeavours, and audience expectations.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a broad and coherent historical understanding of past and contemporary developments in the creative styles, forms, and practices of recent screen productions, taking into account practitioners, studios, technologies, and audiences.
- Demonstrate analytical and informed creative responses to theoretical and technical questions arising when engaging with historically-contextualised, contemporary screen productions.
- Communicate interpretations of historically-contextualised recent screen productions to specialist and non-specialist audiences through the use of written, visual, and oral languages.
Content
This unit encourages you to explore content such as the history of technological innovation and its impact on contemporary creative practice; key stylistic developments in recent screen productions; creative and cinematic production practices of individuals and studios; and a historically-contextualised understanding of audience expectations in the contemporary era.
Learning Approaches
This unit has been designed to support your learning via various learning approaches. This means you are encouraged to engage with thematically-linked presentations and lectures, and to utilise and interact with the supporting online learning materials and resources. You will view numerous examples online and you then have the opportunity to discuss your ideas with feedback from teaching staff and peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
In this unit you will receive feedback on your learning as general comments from teaching staff communicated to the cohort during classes, and via the Canvas website. Tutorials are opportunities to receive more specific feedback from your teachers and peers. Also by offering constructive feedback yourself to your peers during class and as part of group projects you will learn to articulate and shape your creative and critical thinking. For assessable work you will receive comments from your teachers on criterion-referenced grading sheets.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assignments for this unit. The first is a video essay. This assignment has both individual and group components. The second is an individual critical essay where you respond to key concepts raised in the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Video Essay
Group members collaborate to develop a common theme that engages with the style of a contemporary practitioner's or a studio's creative work over an historical period. Individual students within the group research different stylistic influences evident in this creative work, and then transfer their research into video format in consultation with other group members in order to create a coherent, thematically-unified video essay. One half of your grade will be for your individual contribution. One half of your grade will be for group work.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Critical Response
For this assessment you are required to write an essay in which you critically evaluate the changing creative influences and impact of innovative technologies and/or techniques on the cinematic style of a recent screen production.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
In addition to the listed references, other resources and readings will be made available via the Canvas unit website.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Dixon, Wheeler W., & Foster Gwendolyn A. (2013). A Short History of Film. New Brunswick NJ.: Rutgers University Press.
Available from Ebook Library via the QUT Library Online Catalogue.
Reference book(s)
Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kirsten; & Smith, Jeff (2020). Film Art: An Introduction (12th edition). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Cook, David A. (2016). A History of Narrative Film (5th edition). New York: W.W. Norton.
Davis, Glyn et al. (2015). Film Studies: A Global Introduction. New York: Routledge. Ebook via QUT Library Online Catalogue.
Kolker, Robert P. (2016). Film, Form, and Culture (4th edit). London: Routledge. Ebook via the QUT Library Online Catalogue.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
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 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO2 - 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: ULO3 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3