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Undergraduate Course: Animation 2C: Documentary (DESI08075)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course will teach students how to collaboratively research, produce, and disseminate non-fiction film. Students will bring their own interests and animation skills and styles to develop their own strengths while working with others.
Course description This is a core course for animation students, but an elective for students outside of animation.

The course will cover:

Documentary form and principle
Historical and contemporary precedents
Ethical practice in research
Risk assessment
Collaborative and reflective practice
Data visualisation
Interview technique
Compositing technique
Sound recording technique
Editing technique
Production scheduling and management
Film promotion
Distribution & Dissemination

Students will attend a series of online lectures and screenings that cover the theoretical, historical and ethical issues around the emergent conventions of animated documentary. Seminars following on from these lectures will centre on principles of interdisciplinary collaboration, and then the students will be required to form teams that embody a range of practical and theoretical skills. The course from this point on will consist of teamwork in the initiation of project ideas, their proof through research, and eventual realisation in a documentary film. The practical processes of film making will be supported in technical workshops where possible. Films (including storyboards and animatics) will be assessed as a shared document of process for each team, but individual students will be required to maintain a reflective journal that details their contribution to the film and evaluates their performance on the course as well as providing a detailed plan of production.

Outputs could be related to the research done by the students themselves, or they could opt to work in a more service capacity to communicate the research of others within the university, particularly funded research projects.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements If this course is Core to your programme, you will automatically be enrolled. For all other students, including Design students, the course is open on a first come, first served basis until the course is full. This course may have limited availability for non-Design students. Please contact the Course Organiser if you wish to enrol.
Additional Costs No additional costs to students beyond basic animation materials.

Students will be required to provide:
Drawing and painting materials (pens, pencils, crayons, charcoal, markers, paper, sketch pads for example.)
Sculpting materials (wire, modelling clay, balsa wood for example.)
Animation supplies (Peg bar, animation paper and cels for example.)

The list above is an example, and is by no means exhaustive.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  13
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 8, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 153 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Feedback Groups can pitch projects online and verbal feedback will be given via online tutorials.

Common feedback points will be written and shared on VLE platform with entire class.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Collaborate: Work effectively with practitioners from a range of subject areas
  2. Initiate: Produce viable ethical, project proposals from research questions
  3. Realise: Develop project proposals for documentary film through to finished film artefacts (as far as possible).
  4. Reflect: Evaluate personal strengths, and areas for improvement related to performance on project
Reading List
Honess Roe, B. Animated Documentary. Palgrave Macmilan (2013)
Kriger, J. Animated Realism. Focal Press (2012)
Finke, T. & Manger, S. Informotion. Geschtalten (2012)
Films & DVDs
Bass, S. Why Man Creates. Pyramid Media (1968)
Eames, R. & Eames, C. Powers Of Ten. IBM (1977)
Popova, M. Animating Reality. A&E Video (2010)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Organisation, planning, interpersonal, evaluative, problem solving, research, ethical awareness, self reflection, critical thinking, collaborative, practical camera, lights, recording skills, non linear editing, cinematic grammar, creative use of technology.
KeywordsAnimation,Documentary,Film,Research,Collaboration,Interdisciplinarity,Socio-political,Anthropology
Contacts
Course organiserMr Jared Taylor
Tel: (0131 6)51 5964
Email: jared.taylor@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Rhiordan Langan-Fortune
Tel: (0131 6)51 5926
Email: rhiordan.langanfortune@ed.ac.uk
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