Course description
The MA programme in Media Practice is a creative and critical course that pursues advanced practical applications with critical analysis. It assumes that you will have attained a degree of expertise before starting and will aim to deal with the familiar, as well as the unfamiliar, in a more advanced practical/critical environment.
This MA takes advantage of the University’s expertise in media practice and its concentration of members of staff undertaking work in this area (including those located in the School of Computer Science). This cross-disciplinary course will feature a wide range of creative options (e.g. producing digital film, television, new media items, online productions, journalistic work, and much more). Critical background to these creative works can include such things as Modes of Critical and Creative Research, America on Film, Stanley Kubrick: Auteur, Composing Film Music, E-Publishing, East Asian Media and Culture, Salvation in Celluloid: Filming the Transcendent, Studying Film Music, Visions of the City in French Cinema.
The Media Practice MA at Bangor is distinctive in that it not only provides a wide range of modules but it also gives students a free choice of topics, drawing upon the expertise available within the College of Arts and Humanities and School of Computer Science. It aims to help you develop your creative and critical interests, while learning the disciplines involved in advanced film and media practice and practice-led research. A proportion of the course can be delivered through weekly one-to-one supervisions.
The Media Practice Master’s degree has two parts. The first consists of Modes of Creative and Critical Research together with up to three other modules of your choice. Part One must be successfully completed before proceeding to the second part, the dissertation. In certain circumstances, you may be eligible for a Diploma or Certificate if you are unable to proceed to part two. The dissertation is a substantial piece of creative practice/practical media work.
