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Module aimed at developing your skills in understanding research in the area of Social Sciences

This module will introduce you to and provide you with the professional and academic skills in Business Management and knowledge needed and applicable in higher education study. You will reflect on and evaluate your professional and academic skills and competencies to date and as you develop them. You will learn about academic writing and research and the use of digital skills, professional behaviours and transferable skills relevant to Business Management area. You will also consider ways in which these skills are important for your future learning and knowledge development, to enable you to identify new skills to build upon in readiness for further study and career enhancement. It is important that you begin to develop a reflective approach to your academic and professional development and conduct effective independent learning throughout your studies.

This module immerses you in a simulation of the roles and processes of television post-production and marketing. You will acquire specific technical and creative skills through experiencing different roles in the post-production and marketing processes, and learn how those roles and departments collaborate to create television content. The module will give you the opportunity to explore and experience the processes through which artistic, technical and commercial skills come together to shape the television show. In the post-production phase, you will experience a role or roles that include above-the-line roles such as producer, director, editor, sound designer and VFX, and also the roles of editing assistants. The creative and technical skillsets of these roles include editing, sound design, data management skills and market research. The use of industry standard documentation and software packages will be taught for each role. The use of industry standard editing software, colour grading and post-production sound design software will be taught for each role and process. In the marketing phase, you will experience a role or roles involved in the marketing and promotion of the “show”, including the production of a trailer and a marketing strategy that includes online promotional activity. The use of industry standard software and documentation will be taught throughout this process. In addition to teaching the creative and technical skills specific to each role, the module also teaches how the roles, departments and processes of each stage interact and collaborate to shape the television show.

This module will introduce you to digital sculpting techniques. The focus will be on sculpting a portfolio of multi-resolution elements, one of which will then be developed into a game-ready asset. You will be taught the software starting with the initial theory through to its application in practical projects. You will also learn how these toolsets relate to current industry pipelines.

The practical knowledge taught in the module will be applied to a series of assignment tasks, these assignment tasks will involve research and ideation, digital sculpting, 3D modelling, texturing and portfolio presentation. You will be expected to develop your own concepts that fit in with the assignment criteria, create these in the sculpting software, complete the pipeline by taking one of the sculpts through to a final game-ready asset and present the portfolio of work, giving particular consideration to aesthetics.

The following GAME attributes are developed in this module, Resilience, Effective Communicator and Lifelong Learner.

This module will introduce you to digital sculpting techniques. The focus will be on sculpting a portfolio of multi-resolution elements, one of which will then be developed into a game-ready asset. You will be taught the software starting with the initial theory through to its application in practical projects. You will also learn how these toolsets relate to current industry pipelines.

The practical knowledge taught in the module will be applied to a series of assignment tasks, these assignment tasks will involve research and ideation, digital sculpting, 3D modelling, texturing and portfolio presentation. You will be expected to develop your own concepts that fit in with the assignment criteria, create these in the sculpting software, complete the pipeline by taking one of the sculpts through to a final game-ready asset and present the portfolio of work, giving particular consideration to aesthetics.

The following GAME attributes are developed in this module, Resilience, Effective Communicator and Lifelong Learner.

This module will introduce you to digital sculpting techniques. The focus will be on sculpting a portfolio of multi-resolution elements, one of which will then be developed into a game-ready asset. You will be taught the software starting with the initial theory through to its application in practical projects. You will also learn how these toolsets relate to current industry pipelines.

The practical knowledge taught in the module will be applied to a series of assignment tasks, these assignment tasks will involve research and ideation, digital sculpting, 3D modelling, texturing and portfolio presentation. You will be expected to develop your own concepts that fit in with the assignment criteria, create these in the sculpting software, complete the pipeline by taking one of the sculpts through to a final game-ready asset and present the portfolio of work, giving particular consideration to aesthetics.

The following GAME attributes are developed in this module, Resilience, Effective Communicator and Lifelong Learner.