Expand+What is this course about?
This course provides students with a comprehensive skillset which is founded on the principles of traditional photographic, moving image and lens-based media processes, as they apply and are relevant to the rapidly advanci...

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This course provides students with a comprehensive skillset which is founded on the principles of traditional photographic, moving image and lens-based media processes, as they apply and are relevant to the rapidly advancing field of contemporary art and digital media practice.

This award winning and newly expanded course offers an engaging education in contemporary photography and moving image practice, while providing students with a comprehensive skillset and knowledge of lens-based media in all its forms, from traditional wet photography to new digital media techniques and technologies. Our briefs embrace the full scope of contemporary lens-based media practice, including digital and analogue photography, moving image, video and sound production, expanded cinema, installation, web-based and printed publication, and digital media production. This is a stimulating moment for lens-based practitioners willing to explore expanded modes of enquiry. This fine art sensibility combined with critical visual art related skills and practices are transferable and are applicable across a range of creative media industries.

The course challenges and supports students in engaging with complex contextualised inquiry, responding to the changing multi-modal, multi-media environment we now inhabit, where the lens and all its forms of expression have become the pre-eminent visual and conceptual language of the 21st century.

Our teaching philosophy is to provide relevant, critically informed, and contemporary education which recognises the need to provide students with an expanded skillset in lens-based media capture and production to explore art, creativity and communication across a variety of fields that includes fine art and media industries.

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Year 2: This year aims to introduce students to the principles of Photography and Moving Image. Delivered through regular individual and group tutorials, seminars, workshops, fieldtrips, and a visiting lecturer programme, the modu...

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Year 2: This year aims to introduce students to the principles of Photography and Moving Image. Delivered through regular individual and group tutorials, seminars, workshops, fieldtrips, and a visiting lecturer programme, the module gives learning resources, time and space for students to develop and contextualise their individual projects. Special attention is given to the development of technical skills in the use of photography, lens-based media and related software.

Year 3: Students will engage with the principles of photography, film, video and creative media practice in three placement modules. Starting with the Preparation for Placement module which is delivered in the first semester of Year 3, this is the first of three modules, which deal with Placement and Exchange in Year 3 and offers a programme of workshops, talks and presentations which prepares students for successful Placement or Exchange experiences. The overall aim of the module is to offer students the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills gained on the course up to this point in a new and relevant experiential setting. Students undertake a 30 credit placement in the second semester.

Year 4: In this year there will be a combination of individual and group tutorials, seminars, workshops, professional practice and a visiting lecturer programme. This year gives learning resources, time and space for students to develop and contextualise a finished project involving the use of photography and lens-based media towards a final year BA degree exhibition. Students will focus and develop research methods to stimulate in-depth, complex ideas and to integrate such thinking into their practice. An emphasis will be placed on the presentation of a finalised project/exhibition that reflects and builds upon the technical and theoretical knowledge of each student.

Expand+What can I do after this course?
Our graduates are equipped with a multidisciplinary skillset, directly transferable to many new creative media industries and contemporary art contexts. Graduate careers pathways include but are not limited to a rang...

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Our graduates are equipped with a multidisciplinary skillset, directly transferable to many new creative media industries and contemporary art contexts. Graduate careers pathways include but are not limited to a range of photographic and lens-based media occupations such as that of Contemporary Lens Based Media Artist, Camera Operator, Professional Photographer, Filmmaker, Director, Cinematographer, Director of Photography, Video Editor / Colourist, Web Content Producer, Sound Technician, Audio Visual Technician, Special Effects Technician, Gallery Technician, Curator, Art Critic/Writer.