This unit has been discontinued.
Introduction
The moving image is the dominant form of communication in the world today, online and through television and cinema. Time Based Media 1 will introduce you to the history and contemporary practice of how artists engage with different time-based media, and how this engagement influences and contributes to contemporary society and culture.
Through developing your ability to formulate and express ideas in this medium you will be able to participate effectively and critically in contemporary society and culture. You will also develop an understanding of the techniques and formal properties of moving imagery and sound, such as lighting (tone, form), composition, scripting, storyboarding, scoring, editing, and the qualities of the image (including colour, noise and contrast).
Through lectures and studio sessions (workshops, demonstrations, critiques) you will be directed by staff and technicians, in learning techniques, using technologies and approaches to contemporary practice in this medium.
Through a series of directed practical briefs your skills and understanding of this medium will be developed and broadened. In making your work you will be encouraged to, source information as you need it, plan your production, collaborate and work with others, work in different studio environments (lighting studio, sound studio and animation studio) consider the connections both to other units you are studying, and to the wider cultural sphere.
You will learn to apply safe work practices to working with computers and production in a video lighting studio.
Students who have not had prior experience of using cameras or editing software, are encouraged to consider undertaking FSX101 Introduction to Digital Photography and Video: Capture and Editing.
Summary 2021
| Unit name | Time Based Media 1 |
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| Unit code | FSE111 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Creative Arts and Media |
| Discipline | Arts |
| Coordinator | Associate Professor Meg Keating |
| Teaching staff | |
| Level | Introductory |
| Available as student elective? | Yes |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
- Apply knowledge and skills to manipulate lighting, record sound and capture moving imagery, and use these materials to explore and express ideas through constructing moving imagery.
- Respond to, and interpret a brief to produce finished work.
- Comply with relevant WHS.
Fees
Requisites
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | 3hr weekly studio sessions, that comprise of technical workshops, group learning activities and individual studio time, + 6 x 1hr lecture/viewing/demonstration. There is an expectation of at least an additional 3hrs independent practical work in the studio weekly (13 weeks, including an Independent Study Week). |
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| Assessment | Ongoing formative feedback through written, verbal, visual, individual and collective presentations and critique. Non-assessed hurdle and milestone tasks as described in the unit outline. Folio of completed projects submitted at the end of the unit and portfolio of relevant supporting material evidencing brief observations and reflections of the semester's work and contextual investigation (maximum 15 pages) (100%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | Information about any textbook requirements will be available from mid November. |
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| Recommended |
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