SCREEN BRIEF

BRIEF 

You will work on an individual or group video piece that should be between 3 to 5 minutes long. The subject area for this brief is Maps and Journeys you are encouraged to use the metaphor of journeys in the production of a time-based piece of work. The idea of the map or journey can be used as a starting point for ideas that may explore themes around architecture, landscape, territories and borders, inner and outer spaces, cities, countries, maps and also virtual worlds, such as the TV, computer or cinema screen.

You will need to consider and explore different ways of working, looking at the possibilities offered by the medium. Narrative sequence, the single shot, montage, constructed imagery and experimental uses of the medium are amongst the approaches you could explore. You must identify a specific audience and context for your project.

Video is historically concerned with a critique of the mass media, television and mainstream cinema, often attempting to subvert or disrupt the traditional devices used. You are expected to produce work that is critical and challenging to the mainstream.

If your piece is a short film then you will have adopted strategies of using text in the form of a title at the beginning and credits at the end of the video. If it is intended for a gallery audience as an installation then you may submit your piece as a continuous loop with a separate title panel, which states your name, the title and length of the piece for the wall.

RESEARCH FILE

Containing Project Proposal and Critical Self-evaluation (templates provided on Blackboard), and your visual references, critical references, notes and reflection on how your research informed the development of your piece, treatment, drawings or storyboards and logging sheets for sound and images in the form of a coherently edited workbook, binder, PDF on a memory stick or a Blog. (If you have produced a Blog please make sure to include the link with your submission).

We are interested in your reflections on the development of your ideas and why you chose to make specific decisions in the shooting, soundtrack and edit of the work. Consider the conceptual strengths, the coherence, realisation and the appropriateness of your strategies in the construction of the piece in relation to the audience and context.

You should include any thoughts and reflections developed from feedback received from tutors and your peers in the critical review.