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As a Creative Studies Student you will attend over the first 5 weeks on a Tuesday and Wednesday, a range of workshops and lectures put on for you by various Creative Studies teachers from Photography, Fashion Art and Design and Media. During this time you will maintain a Blog that will be a diary of all the things that you achieved in this time.  

The Aim of attending these sessions is to research and try a number of different skills that might impact your future media projects. These workshops allow you to see a number of different areas of the Creative Studies department, try new things and use these to enrich your coursework through your time here. 

During the carousel you will be assessed on your blog diary entries that discuss the activities that you undertook and how you achieved the following:

BEFORE EACH WEEKLY CAROUSEL:

At the beginning of each week you will be encouraged to take part in this range of activities below: 

  • An exploration of processes and technical skills used in different media disciplines 
  • An introduction to the visual glossary, terms and techniques 
  • Use of visual language and semiotics 
  • Use of narrative and mini-narrative for short sequences used in media disciplines 
  • Introduction to coding Health and safety in workshops Individual presentations and group work 
  • Peer and self-assessment 
  • Discussion groups to analyse the effectiveness of various techniques.
Unit 1 Introduction to media processes and technical skills

1.1 Understand processes and technical skills used in creative media production.

1.2 Understand the characteristics and methods of communication within a media context.

DURING EACH WEEKLY CAROUSEL:

YOU NEED TO TAKE PART...... attend on-time each of the skills workshops for the two days. During this time you will be undertaking a series of task relating to that discipline. it is important that you.
  1. Document and get evidence of what you do in the session (Pictures, Diary entries, Printouts Screen grabs ETC)
  2. Notes of your experience of the following...
  • Research carried out
  • Skills that you have tried, 
  • The processes you used (Photography wet process, Screen Printing, Photoshop layering etc) 
  • The tools that you used (Paint, Material, Software, etc)

AFTER EACH WEEKLY CAROUSEL:

To wrap up the carousel each week on a Thursday you will be conducting some of these tasks below to fulfill Unit 2 
  • An introduction to research methodology
  • An exploration of a range of research sources 
  • Primary techniques e.g. demographic observation, surveys 
  • Secondary techniques e.g. user comments, ratings Accessing e-books and journals 
  • Accessing archive materials 
  • Documentation of research, recording and referencing sources 
  • An exploration of alternative forms of presenting information 
  • Individual presentations and group work 
  • Discussion groups to analyse the effectiveness of various techniques 
  • Peer and self-assessment.
as part of these tasks you will be asked to present back your research into these different creative disciplines.

 Unit 2 Introduction to design and research skills in creative media production

 1.1 Understand design and research tools, methods and skills used in creative media production.

 2.1 Understand primary and secondary research sources

 3.1 Be able to use design and research tools, methods and skills to inform ideas for creative media production.
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