Teaching Responsibility
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LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
5512CCMED-JAN-PAR
Aims
1 To provide an opportunity for students to undertake a substantial multi-platform team-based project.
2. To explore the theory and practice of engaging users across a range of platforms.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explore the tensions between user engagement, creativity, professional and
commercial issues in multiplatform production.
2.
Identify mechanisms by which to evaluate multiplatform media products.
3.
Understand convergence media issues.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Students will collaboratively explore themes of convergence, both in terms of technique and the possibilities for exploitation. Team Management Skills Production Management Skills Developing and agreeing a collective vision Exploration of convergent media.
Additional Information:This module encourages cross-disciplinary teams of students to devise, develop and produce a convergent media project proposal/prototype and present it to a panel.
This module will build on the skills and body of knowledge acquired during level 4 and broaden the students approach to problem solving with a view-point based on practical application. Students will examine a range of technologies and scenarios that employ and exploit opportunities for multi-platform delivery including participatory interaction, trans media storytelling and fan-based culture.
Through teamwork, students will further develop their awareness of the new delivery technologies (their potential and their limitations) and will apply this understanding towards developing a series of visual representations that demonstrate a range of creative solutions in response to research, which address requirements set by their interpretation of the brief.