Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Practical
Workshop

Module Offerings

4603ASD-SEP-PAR

Aims

This module provides you with the opportunity to explore the concept of actor as auteur.

You will be required to apply new skills in pre-production, production, and post-production as you write, shoot, direct, act in and edit a series of short films. This will challenge your organisational skills, your creativity, and your ability to collaborate in small groups.

Simultaneously, you are required to show an independent approach to rehearsal and to the integration of interdisciplinary acting, movement, and voice techniques.

You are also required to prove your ability to apply cultural research and use appropriate vocabularies as part of your developing working methodology.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
This module provides an intensive collaborative project which puts you at the centre of the creative process.

Technical sessions will supplement your training, giving you fundamental skills in:

• Visual storytelling
• Camera operation
• Cinematography
• Sound recording
• Production planning
• Directing
• Editing

You will expand your understanding of the short film format through a globalised overview of the work of contemporary filmmakers.

You will then apply your interdisciplinary performance skills to your own narrative work, culminating in a screening of your short films to your peers.
Module Overview:
This module develops your screen acting further as you position yourself as an auteur. You will explore your own creative voice, using the short film format as a platform.

You will develop the technical screen production skills essential to the modern actor whilst working with greater independence in small groups.

You will gain deeper insight into a diverse range of filmmakers, developing a conversation between the technical and the creative.

Assessments

Report
Practice