KPB122 Screen Crafts: Narratives
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| Unit code: | KPB122 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | KPB101 or KPB117 |
| Equivalent(s): | KPB105 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KPB122 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KPB101 or KPB117 |
| Equivalent: | KPB105 |
| Coordinator: | Jason Tolsher | j.tolsher@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit develops your creative, technical and organisational abilities in the areas of screen storytelling and communication. Screen content specialisation requires you to develop an effective, industry-related range of skills. It builds on and advances basic understandings, skills and principles developed in KPB101 or KPB117. An introduction to the skills of sound and lighting complements the earlier core skills of camera, editing, directing and producing and the unit concentrates on the basics of telling a coherent fictional narrative story for the screen.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply concepts and aesthetics of single camera narrative production.
- Produce structured and organised narratives on screen.
- Apply relevant skills in writing, directing and producing.
- Operate sound, lighting, camera and editing equipment appropriate for single camera production.
- Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts (individually and in groups).
Content
The unit addresses content such as:
- different styles of storytelling techniques in short-form screen productions
- key concepts relating to single camera fictional cinematography, editing, producing, lighting and field sound recording
- production skills in the five specialisations common to the major fields of media production: direction, camera, sound, editing, and producing
- techniques in the areas of storytelling and writing, directing, camera and lighting, sound recording and editing.
A full content schedule is distributed in week 1 of semester.
Learning Approaches
This unit is taught in a team teaching mode through the six production specialisations. Through lectures and workshops, you will learn about storytelling and writing, producing, direction, camera, sound and editing, and engage in tutorial sessions in each of the six specialisations. You will work individually to analyse screen stories, to develop script ideas and production strategies, and in groups to create screen projects in order to practise and develop your conceptual and technical skills.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit throughout the semester during tutorials and discussions, particularly after screenings. Generic comments about learning progress and assessable items will be provided to all students as a cohort via the Canvas site for your unit. You will also receive comments about your work via criteria sheets for assessable items. In addition you will be encouraged to learn how to give constructive feedback to your peers over the course of the unit and in turn, receive peer feedback.
Assessment
Overview
The assessments in this unit are integrated so that they build one on another. Firstly, you will develop an individual script proposal. You will then pitch your proposal (an oral assessment) to an audience. Finally, the knowledge and skills you have developed in the unit will be demonstrated via a project, where you produce a short fictional narrative video.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Script Proposal Development
For this assessment you will submit an individual script proposal for a short (3-5 min) narrative video.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Narrative Video Pitch
For this assessment you will pitch an idea for a short (3-5 min) narrative video.
Assessment: Narrative Video Production
For the final assessment, in collaboration with a small team, you will produce and deliver a short (3-5 min) fictional narrative video.
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 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Costs
In this unit, you may incur costs associated with such things as additional equipment and materials not already provided for by QUT, travel to locations and accommodation, art direction, costumes and makeup, music composition and copyright clearances, payment for actors, and catering.
Online learning mode students may require access to a basic digital camera with sound recording capability (such as a smartphone), lighting equipment, and a computer with software capable of video and audio editing.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit. Staff will inform you of recommended materials.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Bowen, C. (2018) (4th ed) Grammar of the Shot. New York. Routledge.
Mollison, M. (2010) (3rd ed) Producing Videos: A Complete Guide. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
Reference book(s)
Cooper, P. and Dancyger, K. (2005) (3rd ed.) Writing the Short Film, Focal Press.
Gloman, C & Letorneau, T. (2005) (3rd ed) Placing Shadows: Lighting Techniques for Video Production, Focal Press.
McKee, R. (1998) Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting, HarperEntertainment.
Seger, L. (2010) (3rd ed.) Making A Good Script Great, Samuel French.
Wheeler, P. (2010) Digital Cinematography, Focal Press.
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 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.
Every project is different and the risks are unique to that project. When working on film and television productions you are required to provide appropriate risk plans of your projects prior to receiving equipment. The risk plan should look at the scope of the project and document responses to possible scenarios that might be encountered. The prevention and avoidance of risk should be addressed by: ELIMINATION of the risk, SUBSTITUTION of the risk, ISOLATION of the risk, ENGINEERING to remove the risk, ADMINISTRATION of the risk and the use of PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.
Note: If in your considered opinion, there is a potential for an accident to occur, the activity should be abandoned and advice sought from specialists, supervisors or lecturers. It should be noted that even if this risk plan has been done and/or advice and consultation has been sought from lecturers or other consultants, the liability for risk management still rests, in the final instance, with the students responsible for the project.
QUT takes its obligations to the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 very seriously. You as a student, must also meet your obligations under the Act. This can be done in different ways, but you are obliged to take action to manage exposure to risk.
There are Regulations, Advisory Standards and Industry Codes of Practice, to meet your obligations under the Act you must comply with these. You must take reasonable precautions and exercise proper diligence in making sure the risk is managed.
Students have an obligation to exercise care when operating equipment and to follow instructions as to the safe operation of the equipment, safe manual handling and the use of safety devices and personal protective equipment.
STUDENTS WORKING ON FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE APPROPRIATE RISK PLAN HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED FOR THAT PROJECT AND THAT IT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE APPROPRIATE STAFF MEMBER.
A QUT Risk Plan Form for Student Productions and an accompanying Risk Plan Guidelines should be accessed and downloaded from the KPB122 Canvas site.
For students working on campus and/or accessing QUT production equipment, the following applies:
RESPONSIBILITY: Equipment faults and damage must be reported to Equipment Loans Centre (ELC) staff as soon as possible.
Students are responsible for ensuring equipment is secure and at no risk of damage. Action will be taken against anyone responsible for wilful damage or theft of QUT property.
SECURITY: Z6, the hub, offers 24 hour swipe card access. Consequently, the equipment you use there, your personal possessions and your personal safety are at risk unless everyone complies with the security regulations pertaining to this facility. Admission is by your own student card only. Do not let anyone in on your card unless prior authorisation has been given by the Discipline Head. Under no circumstance should you give your student card to anyone else. These rules will be strictly enforced and anyone who breaks them will be subject to harsh disciplinary action by the university.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO5 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5
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, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4 - 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: ULO5 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KPB122 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KPB101 or KPB117 |
| Equivalent: | KPB105 |
| Coordinator: | Jason Tolsher | j.tolsher@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit develops your creative, technical and organisational abilities in the areas of screen storytelling and communication. Screen content specialisation requires you to develop an effective, industry-related range of skills. It builds on and advances basic understandings, skills and principles developed in KPB101 or KPB117. An introduction to the skills of sound and lighting complements the earlier core skills of camera, editing, directing and producing and the unit concentrates on the basics of telling a coherent fictional narrative story for the screen.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply concepts and aesthetics of single camera narrative production.
- Produce structured and organised narratives on screen.
- Apply relevant skills in writing, directing and producing.
- Operate sound, lighting, camera and editing equipment appropriate for single camera production.
- Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts (individually and in groups).
Content
The unit addresses content such as:
- different styles of storytelling techniques in short-form screen productions
- key concepts relating to single camera fictional cinematography, editing, producing, lighting and field sound recording
- production skills in the five specialisations common to the major fields of media production: direction, camera, sound, editing, and producing
- techniques in the areas of storytelling and writing, directing, camera and lighting, sound recording and editing.
A full content schedule is distributed in week 1 of semester.
Learning Approaches
This unit is taught in a team teaching mode through the six production specialisations. Through lectures and workshops, you will learn about storytelling and writing, producing, direction, camera, sound and editing, and engage in tutorial sessions in each of the six specialisations. You will work individually to analyse screen stories, to develop script ideas and production strategies, and in groups to create screen projects in order to practise and develop your conceptual and technical skills.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit throughout the semester during tutorials and discussions, particularly after screenings. Generic comments about learning progress and assessable items will be provided to all students as a cohort via the Canvas site for your unit. You will also receive comments about your work via criteria sheets for assessable items. In addition you will be encouraged to learn how to give constructive feedback to your peers over the course of the unit and in turn, receive peer feedback.
Assessment
Overview
The assessments in this unit are integrated so that they build one on another. Firstly, you will develop an individual script proposal. You will then pitch your proposal (an oral assessment) to an audience. Finally, the knowledge and skills you have developed in the unit will be demonstrated via a project, where you produce a short fictional narrative video.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Script Proposal Development
For this assessment you will submit an individual script proposal for a short (3-5 min) narrative video.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Narrative Video Pitch
For this assessment you will pitch an idea for a short (3-5 min) narrative video.
Assessment: Narrative Video Production
For the final assessment, in collaboration with a small team, you will produce and deliver a short (3-5 min) fictional narrative video.
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 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Costs
In this unit, you may incur costs associated with such things as additional equipment and materials not already provided for by QUT, travel to locations and accommodation, art direction, costumes and makeup, music composition and copyright clearances, payment for actors, and catering.
Online learning mode students may require access to a basic digital camera with sound recording capability (such as a smartphone), lighting equipment, and a computer with software capable of video and audio editing.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit. Staff will inform you of recommended materials.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Bowen, C. (2018) (4th ed) Grammar of the Shot. New York. Routledge.
Mollison, M. (2010) (3rd ed) Producing Videos: A Complete Guide. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
Reference book(s)
Cooper, P. and Dancyger, K. (2005) (3rd ed.) Writing the Short Film, Focal Press.
Gloman, C & Letorneau, T. (2005) (3rd ed) Placing Shadows: Lighting Techniques for Video Production, Focal Press.
McKee, R. (1998) Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting, HarperEntertainment.
Seger, L. (2010) (3rd ed.) Making A Good Script Great, Samuel French.
Wheeler, P. (2010) Digital Cinematography, Focal Press.
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 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.
Every project is different and the risks are unique to that project. When working on film and television productions you are required to provide appropriate risk plans of your projects prior to receiving equipment. The risk plan should look at the scope of the project and document responses to possible scenarios that might be encountered. The prevention and avoidance of risk should be addressed by: ELIMINATION of the risk, SUBSTITUTION of the risk, ISOLATION of the risk, ENGINEERING to remove the risk, ADMINISTRATION of the risk and the use of PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.
Note: If in your considered opinion, there is a potential for an accident to occur, the activity should be abandoned and advice sought from specialists, supervisors or lecturers. It should be noted that even if this risk plan has been done and/or advice and consultation has been sought from lecturers or other consultants, the liability for risk management still rests, in the final instance, with the students responsible for the project.
QUT takes its obligations to the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 very seriously. You as a student, must also meet your obligations under the Act. This can be done in different ways, but you are obliged to take action to manage exposure to risk.
There are Regulations, Advisory Standards and Industry Codes of Practice, to meet your obligations under the Act you must comply with these. You must take reasonable precautions and exercise proper diligence in making sure the risk is managed.
Students have an obligation to exercise care when operating equipment and to follow instructions as to the safe operation of the equipment, safe manual handling and the use of safety devices and personal protective equipment.
STUDENTS WORKING ON FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE APPROPRIATE RISK PLAN HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED FOR THAT PROJECT AND THAT IT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE APPROPRIATE STAFF MEMBER.
A QUT Risk Plan Form for Student Productions and an accompanying Risk Plan Guidelines should be accessed and downloaded from the KPB122 Canvas site.
For students working on campus and/or accessing QUT production equipment, the following applies:
RESPONSIBILITY: Equipment faults and damage must be reported to Equipment Loans Centre (ELC) staff as soon as possible.
Students are responsible for ensuring equipment is secure and at no risk of damage. Action will be taken against anyone responsible for wilful damage or theft of QUT property.
SECURITY: Z6, the hub, offers 24 hour swipe card access. Consequently, the equipment you use there, your personal possessions and your personal safety are at risk unless everyone complies with the security regulations pertaining to this facility. Admission is by your own student card only. Do not let anyone in on your card unless prior authorisation has been given by the Discipline Head. Under no circumstance should you give your student card to anyone else. These rules will be strictly enforced and anyone who breaks them will be subject to harsh disciplinary action by the university.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO5 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5
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, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4 - 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: ULO5 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KPB122 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KPB101 or KPB117 |
| Equivalent: | KPB105 |
Overview
This unit develops your creative, technical and organisational abilities in the areas of screen storytelling and communication. Screen content specialisation requires you to develop an effective, industry-related range of skills. It builds on and advances basic understandings, skills and principles developed in KPB101 or KPB117. An introduction to the skills of sound and lighting complements the earlier core skills of camera, editing, directing and producing and the unit concentrates on the basics of telling a coherent fictional narrative story for the screen.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply concepts and aesthetics of single camera narrative production.
- Produce structured and organised narratives on screen.
- Apply relevant skills in writing, directing and producing.
- Operate sound, lighting, camera and editing equipment appropriate for single camera production.
- Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts (individually and in groups).
Content
The unit addresses content such as:
- different styles of storytelling techniques in short-form screen productions
- key concepts relating to single camera fictional cinematography, editing, producing, lighting and field sound recording
- production skills in the five specialisations common to the major fields of media production: direction, camera, sound, editing, and producing
- techniques in the areas of storytelling and writing, directing, camera and lighting, sound recording and editing.
A full content schedule is distributed in week 1 of semester.
Learning Approaches
This unit is taught in a team teaching mode through the six production specialisations. Through lectures and workshops, you will learn about storytelling and writing, producing, direction, camera, sound and editing, and engage in tutorial sessions in each of the six specialisations. You will work individually to analyse screen stories, to develop script ideas and production strategies, and in groups to create screen projects in order to practise and develop your conceptual and technical skills.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit throughout the semester during tutorials and discussions, particularly after screenings. Generic comments about learning progress and assessable items will be provided to all students as a cohort via the Canvas site for your unit. You will also receive comments about your work via criteria sheets for assessable items. In addition you will be encouraged to learn how to give constructive feedback to your peers over the course of the unit and in turn, receive peer feedback.
Assessment
Overview
The assessments in this unit are integrated so that they build one on another. Firstly, you will develop an individual script proposal. You will then pitch your proposal (an oral assessment) to an audience. Finally, the knowledge and skills you have developed in the unit will be demonstrated via a project, where you produce a short fictional narrative video.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Script Proposal Development
For this assessment you will submit an individual script proposal for a short (3-5 min) narrative video.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Narrative Video Pitch
For this assessment you will pitch an idea for a short (3-5 min) narrative video.
Assessment: Narrative Video Production
For the final assessment, in collaboration with a small team, you will produce and deliver a short (3-5 min) fictional narrative video.
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 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Costs
In this unit, you may incur costs associated with such things as additional equipment and materials not already provided for by QUT, travel to locations and accommodation, art direction, costumes and makeup, music composition and copyright clearances, payment for actors, and catering.
Online learning mode students may require access to a basic digital camera with sound recording capability (such as a smartphone), lighting equipment, and a computer with software capable of video and audio editing.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit. Staff will inform you of recommended materials.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Bowen, C. (2018) (4th ed) Grammar of the Shot. New York. Routledge.
Mollison, M. (2010) (3rd ed) Producing Videos: A Complete Guide. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
Reference book(s)
Cooper, P. and Dancyger, K. (2005) (3rd ed.) Writing the Short Film, Focal Press.
Gloman, C & Letorneau, T. (2005) (3rd ed) Placing Shadows: Lighting Techniques for Video Production, Focal Press.
McKee, R. (1998) Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting, HarperEntertainment.
Seger, L. (2010) (3rd ed.) Making A Good Script Great, Samuel French.
Wheeler, P. (2010) Digital Cinematography, Focal Press.
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 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.
Every project is different and the risks are unique to that project. When working on film and television productions you are required to provide appropriate risk plans of your projects prior to receiving equipment. The risk plan should look at the scope of the project and document responses to possible scenarios that might be encountered. The prevention and avoidance of risk should be addressed by: ELIMINATION of the risk, SUBSTITUTION of the risk, ISOLATION of the risk, ENGINEERING to remove the risk, ADMINISTRATION of the risk and the use of PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.
Note: If in your considered opinion, there is a potential for an accident to occur, the activity should be abandoned and advice sought from specialists, supervisors or lecturers. It should be noted that even if this risk plan has been done and/or advice and consultation has been sought from lecturers or other consultants, the liability for risk management still rests, in the final instance, with the students responsible for the project.
QUT takes its obligations to the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 very seriously. You as a student, must also meet your obligations under the Act. This can be done in different ways, but you are obliged to take action to manage exposure to risk.
There are Regulations, Advisory Standards and Industry Codes of Practice, to meet your obligations under the Act you must comply with these. You must take reasonable precautions and exercise proper diligence in making sure the risk is managed.
Students have an obligation to exercise care when operating equipment and to follow instructions as to the safe operation of the equipment, safe manual handling and the use of safety devices and personal protective equipment.
STUDENTS WORKING ON FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE APPROPRIATE RISK PLAN HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED FOR THAT PROJECT AND THAT IT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE APPROPRIATE STAFF MEMBER.
A QUT Risk Plan Form for Student Productions and an accompanying Risk Plan Guidelines should be accessed and downloaded from the KPB122 Canvas site.
For students working on campus and/or accessing QUT production equipment, the following applies:
RESPONSIBILITY: Equipment faults and damage must be reported to Equipment Loans Centre (ELC) staff as soon as possible.
Students are responsible for ensuring equipment is secure and at no risk of damage. Action will be taken against anyone responsible for wilful damage or theft of QUT property.
SECURITY: Z6, the hub, offers 24 hour swipe card access. Consequently, the equipment you use there, your personal possessions and your personal safety are at risk unless everyone complies with the security regulations pertaining to this facility. Admission is by your own student card only. Do not let anyone in on your card unless prior authorisation has been given by the Discipline Head. Under no circumstance should you give your student card to anyone else. These rules will be strictly enforced and anyone who breaks them will be subject to harsh disciplinary action by the university.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO5 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5
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, ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4 - 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: ULO5 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5