Postgraduate Course: Documentary Narrative in Health: Plan Your Story (fusion on-site) (EFIE11302)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course can stand alone, and is also the pre-requisite course for a further elective in Narrative Futures; Art, Data, Society: 'Documentary Narrative in Health: Make Your Film'.
We will explore cutting edge moving image in health and well-being contexts, introduce essential interview, sound and camera techniques and consider the role of these elements in the construction of narrative. We will focus on documentary-specific ethics of creative practice and how to construct a documentary narrative by centring concepts around identifying and reaching your audience. Students will produce a presentation of a film proposal (in the form of a power-point 'pitch deck') that addresses a health and well-being research question. |
| Course description |
This course encourages students to come with their own research interests in health, and provides the practical and contextual skills to build a narrative documentary film proposal. Film is used in many ways to explore health narratives. We will engage with examples from patient-led narratives to innovations in hospital consent, scientific animations and audience impact campaigns. We will track the rapid transition of the fiduciary duty of health professionals to a data rich environment.
Students will receive expert tuition in essential introductory sound recording, camera, editing and interview skills, and learn the range of ethical issues around making work with and for members of the public. During the two day intensive, students have will take introductory workshops on interview, camera and sound skills, with a guest speaker on creating impact from your documentary. By the end of the course students will be able to transform their research question in health into a practical, well-informed film proposal that is tailored towards a specific audience. You will be guided through the elements necessary to create a pitch deck designed to convey your directorial vision.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - On-Site Fusion Course Delivery Information:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will teach this course in a way that enables online and on-campus students to study together. This approach (our 'fusion' teaching model) offers students flexible and inclusive ways to study, and the ability to choose whether to be on-campus or online at the level of the individual course. It also opens up ways for diverse groups of students to study together regardless of geographical location. To enable this, the course will use technologies to record and live-stream student and staff participation during their teaching and learning activities.
Students should be aware that:
- Classrooms used in this course will have additional technology in place: students might not be able to sit in areas away from microphones or outside the field of view of all cameras.
- Unless the lecturer or tutor indicates otherwise you should assume the session is being recorded.
As part of your course, you will need access to a personal computing device. Unless otherwise stated activities will be web browser based and as a minimum we recommend a device with a physical keyboard and screen that can access the internet.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 20 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 4,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 15,
Online Activities 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
57 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative Assessment:
The course will be assessed by means of the following assessment components:
1) Presentation of Film Proposal (100%)
Students will produce a presentation of a film proposal (in the form of a power-point 'pitch deck') that addresses a health and well-being research question.
Students will receive detailed written feedback on the summative assessments after their submission of their final film proposal. The summative feedback will clearly explain how the student did or did not meet the assessment criteria and how they could improve in the future.
Group work will not be formally assessed - instead tutor and group feedback will feedforward into their individual final presentations. |
| Feedback |
Students will be invited to make use of the asynchronous online discussion board which will be open for the duration of the course and monitored by academic staff.
Formative feedback is offered during the pre-intensive week two with peer group feedback on elements of their final presentation, followed with feedback by the academic staff, and further group feedback during peer review and discussion.
Students will receive detailed written feedback from the Course Organiser and members of the team on the summative assessments in week five after their submission of their final presentation. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the historical and current uses and potential of documentary moving image in health and well-being.
- Apply knowledge, skill and understanding of the ethical issues around their own research questions in health in terms of documentary practice and audience engagement.
- Identify and evaluate the role of data in the intersection of health and creative documentary practice.
- Communicate and build peer relationships and engage with professional expertise.
- Take responsibility for transforming their individual research questions in health into a practical narrative film proposal.
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Reading List
Indicative Reading List:
Essential Reading
S. Bolaki. Animated Documentary and Mental Health. In: Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture / Stella Bolaki. Edinburgh University Press,; 2022:177-210. doi:10.1515/9781474402439
Frank, Lily E. & Klincewicz, Michal (forthcoming). Uses and Abuses of AI Ethics. In David J. Gunkel (ed.), Handbook of the Ethics of AI. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Nash K. Documentary-for-the-Other: Relationships, Ethics and (Observational) Documentary. Journal of mass media ethics. 2011;26(3):224-239. doi:10.1080/08900523.2011.581971
Rughani, Pratap The Dance of Documentary Ethics chapter in: The Documentary Film Book, (2013) ed Brian Winston, BFI / Palgrave Macmillan.
Recommended Reading:
S. Cox and K.M. Boydell. Ethical issues in arts-based health research. In: Clift S, Camic PM, Royal Society for Public Health associated with work., eds. Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing: International Perspectives on Practice, Policy and Research / Edited by Stephen Clift, Paul M. Camic. Oxford University Press; 2016:83-91
Pauwels L, Mannay D. The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods. Second. (Luc Pauwels, Dawn Mannay, eds.). SAGE Publications, Limited; 2020. doi:10.4135/9781526417015
Volandes AE, Barry MJ, Wood F, Elwyn G. Audio-video decision support for patients: the documentary genre as a basis for decision aids. Health expectations: an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy. 2013;16(3):e80-8. doi:10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00727
Further Reading:
Amy Hardie. Movie Making as Palliative Care. In: Browne V (Lecturer in politics), Whistler D, eds. On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian Howie: Materialism and Mortality / Edited by Victoria Browne and Daniel Whistler. Paperback edition. Bloomsbury Academic; 2018. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
This course provides students with contextual, academic and practical skills to allow them to create a film proposal that maximises audience engagement in their chosen research area in health.
Students will gain:
Knowledge and Understanding:
- A critical understanding and familiarity with current expansion of data into health and historic uses of film in health.
- A critical awareness of the importance of ethics in representing recognisable members of the public and bringing them to an audience.
Applied Knowledge, Skills and Understanding:
- Ability to apply critical knowledge to the design and completion of a project.
- Ability to identify potential challenges and opportunities in situations of crisis.
- Ability to demonstrate originality and/or creativity, including in practice.
Generic Cognitive Skills:
- Develop original and creative responses to problems and issues recognising they are on uncharted territory.
- Ability to deal with complex issues, make informed judgements and predictions in situations in the absence of complete or consistent data/information
Communication, ICT, and Numeracy Skills:
- Communication, using visual and sound techniques , to identified audiences
- Ability to articulate a creative practice to peers; audiences, and the participants, with a clear understanding of ethics of research, production and dissemination in documentary.
Autonomy, Accountability, and Working with Others:
- Skills to manage their own individual contribution to group discussions and give constructive feedback to creative presentations
- The ability to engage creatively and productively with patients, health professionals and the general public in the area of health. |
| Keywords | Health,Documentary,Creative,Narrative,Audience,Impact,Ethics,EFI,Level 11,PG |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Amy Hardie
Tel: (0131 6)51 5871
Email: a.hardie@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Abby Gleave
Tel: (0131 6)51 1337
Email: abby.gleave@ed.ac.uk |
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