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This course offers students the opportunity to compose with sound and image across a range of diverse media, which might include audiovisual composition, short film, video game, live performance and/or installation contexts.

10 x 2 hour lab sessions over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus

Standard entry to Masters at College level

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Portfolio of audiovisual compositions (10 minutes total) - 80%

Process Video Essay (2-3 minutes) - 20%

This course aims to:

■ Examine and conceptualise relationships between sound and image

■ Explore the creative potential of software and hardware in creating audiovisual works

■ Consider audiovisual composition as a range of related practices across diverse media

■ Develop students' technical skills and critical perspectives in creating across audio and visual media

■ Explore a range of professional contexts in which audiovisual media is encountered. 

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ realise either one extended or several shorter audiovisual works through a process of design and experimentation

■ deploy appropriate technical means to capture or generate sound and visual materials

■ develop effective methods to integrate sound and visual media

■ apply critical evaluation and aesthetic judgment across both the audio and visual domains

■ identify key features in their work and relate these to relevant concepts, theories or other practice in the field

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.