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Project Preparation & Development - TFT00035I

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• Department: Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
• Credit value: 10 credits
• Credit level: I
• Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module summary

The Project Preparation and Development module prepares students for their final year project, as well as supporting them in developing preliminary project concepts. Lectures and workshops allow students to explore the different types of final year projects that can be completed and identify and research the skills, techniques and processes that they will need to learn in order to realise each. Students submit two project proposals and based on these an academic is allocated as a project supervisor for the subsequent Interactive Media Individual Project module.

Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Summer Term 2022-23

Module aims

To research, identify and develop skills that are appropriate to the types of final year projects being proposed.

To set clear aims for preliminary project concepts.

To carry out a broad literature survey to identify areas of interest based on related work.

To develop project pitching skills, both oral and written.

To prepare students to undertake their preferred final year projects.

Module learning outcomes

Subject content

Design and plan the development of practical and theoretical interactive media projects in complex domains.

Design and plan methods to evaluate a chosen aspect of an interactive media context.

Critique related arguments to a chosen aspect of an interactive media context and plan own argument.

Academic and graduate skills

Independently undertake a broad literature review in an area new to the student.

Present and pitch project concepts and develop plans in response to constructive critique and feedback.

Autonomously plan project work.

Identify and set clear aims for preliminary project concepts in complex domains.

Module content

This Project Planning module leads into the final year project. In this planning module, students learn about the different types of projects that they complete and are introduced to the skills, techniques and processes that they will need to learn in order to realise each in a rigorous and ethically appropriate manner.

Students develop proposals for two potential projects. These are first presented in preliminary form using pitches in week 5 and then, based on feedback, are refined for submission in the form of two of 500-word abstracts in week 6.

Indicative assessment

Task	% of module mark
Essay/coursework	100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task	% of module mark
Essay/coursework	100

Module feedback

Students will receive regular oral feedback during practical sessions.

Students will receive written feedback on both their presentations and written project concept submission using a proforma identifying key requirements and marks awarded for sections of the assignment.

Indicative reading

Study Skills Handbook, Cottrell, Palgrave, 2013. Doing Your Undergraduate Project (SAGE Essential Study Skills Series), Reardon, Sage, 2006.