Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Description The aim is to develop core foundational skills for reading and interpreting the still and moving image – primarily photography and film – by examining characteristics of formal/stylistic composition and media conventions alongside the interpretative frameworks of semiotic and representational (ideological) analysis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Critically engage with visual methodologies literature 2. Understand the relationship between media texts and their historical, political and cultural contexts 3. Develop the grammar and language of media analysis to interpret a range of visual media 4. Apply a study of the signs and meanings of still and moving images 5. Complete a close textual analysis of a range of media texts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Visual Media LiteracyCompositional InterpretationSemiology and Advertising ImagesMedia LiteracyIdeology & PhotographyFilm FormFilm Story-telling: story structure, film narrative and narrationFilm Genres: genre tropes, mythology and marketingDocumentary & Music Videos: moving image mediaNew Smart/Postmodern Film TV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of Last Revision | 11-FEB-05 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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