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Creative Producing (BCI 3) - TFT00059H
- Department: Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
- See module specification for other years: 2022-23
Module summary
This optional module is designed to introduce students to the importance of creative relationships in Film, TV and the theatre (primarily) where often creative work emerges from particular partnerships. The teaching will cover a number of notable partnership case-studies and the impact of that relationship on content and production methodology, for example: Ken Loach and Rebecca O'Brien, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Peter Hall and John Barton, Steve Jobs and Jony Ive. The module aims to guide students towards defining and pursuing creative relative relationships on which they might subsequently build creative careers.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Semester 2 2023-24 |
Module aims
This module aims to:
Explore the importance of creative relationships on the development and delivery of distinctive creative content
Identify a series of analytical or practical steps which combine to create the potential for a creative relationship
Encourage a critical engagement with the strengths and weakness of creative relationships as means of negotiating different creative and institutional business contexts.
Explore the creative workflows - notably the interchange between the "business" producer and the creative - that producing partnerships might follow to realise their objectives
Understand how different perspectives - business and creative - impact on the shaping and development of content
Module learning outcomes
At the end of this module you students be able to:
Analyse and apply good practice from the advanced analysis of case-study creative producing partnerships to your own potential business relationships.
Deploy an advanced understanding of how workflow moves between business-minded producers and creative talent in such a way as to initiate your own creative business strategies.
Apply advanced knowledge of creative producing issues to the projects and markets that are best suited to particular creative relationships.
Demonstrate an advanced capacity to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses in creative business relationships and to adopt or modify relations in line with business objectives or market conditions.
Module content
This is a third year variant of an option whose core teaching is also offered, as options, in Y2. Third year students will be expected to bring more advanced knowledge to a longer assessment.
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 70 |
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 30 |
Special assessment rules
None
Additional assessment information
Formative work is embedded into weekly exercises in the seminar structure
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 30 |
| Essay/coursework | 70 |
Module feedback
Students will receive feedback within four weeks as per university guidelines. Verbal feedback on the first summative will be available before term's end to feed into the second summative.
Indicative reading
Barbara Townley Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) John Hill, Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (London: BFI, 2011)
Richards Schickel, Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective (London: Thames and Hudson, 2012)
Peter Hall and John Goodwin, Peter Hall's Diaries (London: Oberon Books, 2000)
Nicholas Hytner, Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre (London: Vintage, 2018)