STUDY PROGRAMME
Creative Media Production

AFAM CODE
ABPC67

DISCIPLINARY AREA

Methodology and techniques of commu- nication

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Creative Writing

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course teaches the students the contemporary forms of creative writing in the audio-visual non-fition production. Depending on the brief that is selected each year, the course moves between short documentary films and series. Giving for granted the narrative and technical basics of scriptwriting, the students - individually or in groups - are led to the development of two subjects following established phases: logline, subject, treatment, script, production plan.

The programme grants 12 credits, divided as follows:

• SHORT FILM: 6 CFA

• FEATURE FILM: 6 CFA

Successful students will be able to: → Develop a subject

→ Develop a treatment

→ Develop a script

→ Draw up a production plan

→ Understand seriality

→ Work with archive material

→ Apply production and distribution criteria as project limits

METHODOLOGY:

• Observation, research and analysis of those design elements concerning the applied arts, that will be then decoded: image, colour, ideas, shapes, icon signs, fonts, relation between space and proportions

• Creation of a representation and synthesis tool: the moodboard

DRAWING:

• Hand drawing as a contemporary language, a Theoretical and expressive tool to support the project development

• Tools and techniques to represent/visualize objects, spaces, ideas and concepts

• Introduction to the basic techniques of composition and narration through images (storyboard)

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Submission of exercises, projects or research work

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

Booker C. (2019) The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, Bloomsbury, London.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, to- gether with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.