Postgraduate Course: Documentary Narrative in Health: Make Your Film (fusion online) (EFIE11305)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | We will focus on your individual creative practice, supporting you to deepen your understanding of how moving image can explore and convey your research interests in health. You will build on your earlier skillset in camera and sound, and learn new skills in editing that allow you to translate your understanding of ethics and your research questions into practice. You will collaborate with your intended audience (as identified in the previous course), and present your final 2-5-minute short film to an audience of your peers. |
| Course description |
This course focusses on creative practice to transform the pitch deck story proposal created during Narrative Documentary in Health: Plan Your Story into a short (2-5min) documentary film.
Exploring short films will develop your perspective of inclusive diverse storytelling across differing styles and in different communities internationally. Using a mobile phone with sound and image recording, a DSLR camera, a video camera, or even a laptop and microphone, you will transform the film proposal into a film that explores your research question in health. You will be encouraged to develop your own particular cross-disciplinary perspective, whilst also considering the specific demands of narrative documentary film-making. You will further develop sound and image recording and editing techniques to ensure you have the technical skills necessary to make a short film.
The course is designed to work with your own equipment, which will most likely be your smart phone (with sound and image recording capability), but could be a DSLR camera or a video camera. You will learn observational techniques that allow you to convert what you see through the camera into editable shots. You will learn how to record sound in different locations, and the essentials of sound design and laying a music track. You will be exposed to different editing styles, including cutting in camera. You will have the option of illustrating your research with basic animation using AI programmes.
Feedback sessions on your progress supports you in troubleshooting and refining your storytelling aims. By the end of the course you are will have a 2-5 min film which you will screen to your peers.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - Online 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 note that their interactions may be recorded and live-streamed. There will, however, be options to control whether or not your video and audio are enabled.
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: 10 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 4,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 16,
Online Activities 10,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
66 )
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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) Final Film (100%)
The final film will be 2-5 minutes in length.
Summative assessment by written feedback is on the final film.
Group work is not assessed in this course. |
| 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 by feedback by the academic staff, and continuing 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 after their submission of their final presentation. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply a range of skills in directing, camera, sound and editing to make a short documentary film.
- Apply critical analysis and evaluation to produce a practical synthesis of their research specific ethical issues through narrative documentary practice.
- Communicate with their specified audience using visual, sound and editing skills.
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Reading List
Indicative Reading List:
Essential Reading:
Black, Nicola. ''Technologies of the Self' - Bridging Academic Theory and Practice-Based Research through Creative Documentary Enquiry.' Media practice and education 20.2 (2019): 179-193.
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
De Jong, Wilma, Erik Knudsen, and Jerry Rothwell. Creative Documentary Theory and Practice / Wilma de Jong, Erik Knudsen, Jerry Rothwell. London: Routledge, 2011
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.
Majeed, Tawseef. 'Ecstatic (Re)Constructions: The Creative Practice in Animated Documentary.' Animation practice, process & production 11.1 (2022): 109-129. Web.
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 |
Students will gain:
Knowledge and Understanding:
- A critical understanding of the history, scope and current innovations in documentary in health.
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 unscripted situations.
- Ability to use skills in camera, sound, AI animation and digital editing to transform a proposal into a finished film.
- Ability to demonstrate originality and creativity in practice.
Generic Cognitive Skills:
- Develop original and creative responses to problems and issues.
Communication, ICT, and Numeracy Skills:
- Understand audience segmentation and identify the audience for their project.
- Communication with potential participants and developing mutually respectful relationships.
- Ability to articulate clear and well-justified advisory recommendations.
Autonomy, Accountability, and Working with Others:
- Skills to manage their own individual contribution to a group presentation or report.
- The ability to engage constructively and productively using audio visual means with their chosen research subject in health. |
| Keywords | Health,Documentary,Film,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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