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Module Content

This core module will run over term three, completing over the summer. Students will independently make a feature-length audio work of duration 45 - 60 minutes. This may be a single feature or a series of connected episodes. It will involve a period of pre-production and research, the creation of a written proposal and in-person pitch and finally the production of the audio work. This project work will be supervised by tutors and mentors. Students will also produce a critical evaluation reflecting on the work process. In addition to this, there will be masterclasses providing relevant resources and tools – from technical issues to ethics - for entry into professional audio work.Ìý

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Learning outcomes

Having completed the course students will be able to:Ìý

• devise and produce, using advanced narrative techniques, a feature length factual audio documentary, including writing a treatment for long-form audio and discuss the ethical considerations informing your choice of approach in particular works;Ìý

• have a comprehensive understanding of modes of creation and thinking about the relations between form and content in creative Audio practice;Ìý

• identify and deal with complex problems in media production workflows and take responsibility for initiating, identifying, amending and achieving aims and desired outcomes using new skill and techniques as required;Ìý

• communicate ambitious concepts effectively and succinctly, including being able to pitch and sell complex stories/product to potential clients;Ìý

• identify who and how others may help provide advice and input on a technically challenging media project;Ìý

• use onward career skills (e.g. getting your work heard, design career roadmaps).Ìý

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Indicative Delivery Method

• Seminars/Masterclasses, mentoring, independent study, group crits.ÌýÌý

• The module will guide students through the process of producing a feature length audio work.ÌýÌý

• While the majority of this module will be delivered through supervised independent work and tutorials, there will be masterclasses covering advanced practical aspects of long form production and onward career paths. These will be designed to help bridge the students’ university-based production experience with the professional world.ÌýÌý

• Visiting practitioners who have experience of different types of long-form production and a variety of work environments will give masterclasses that help students gain a rounded picture of how learning in their MA can be translated into a career path.ÌýÌý

• Masterclasses with students from other media-oriented MA programmes will be organised to discuss advanced ethical issues around voice, respect for contributors, dealing with sensitive topics, authority to speak and tell and other particularly thorny ethical complexities of factual reportage.Ìý

• Students will be allocated a mentor from the audio industry who will give one to one feedback during the production process. The mentor will be available for troubleshooting as well as listening to and feeding back on drafts. We contract a nominal twenty hours of contact for each Mentor.Ìý

• Students will work individually on projects and will be expected to carry out additional self-organised group feedback sessions to supplement their feedback work with their mentor, using the skills they have developed.Ìý