Glamorgan’s MA Moving Image award encourages a wide interpretation of moving image practice that includes video art, installation art, multimedia, experimental film, documentary, drama, interactive media, performance, mobile and pervasive media.
Essential Info
This Masters award offers a strong critical and interdisciplinary context for advanced study in the field of moving image. Creativity, experimentation and innovation are encouraged by studying diverse forms of moving image production, including video art, installation art, multimedia, experimental film, documentary, drama, interactive media, performance, mobile and pervasive media. The course provides an opportunity for individuals to develop their personal practice through the exploration of new forms, contexts and discourse.
With both full-time and part-time study modes the course is ideal for flexible postgraduate study for individuals from diverse backgrounds. You may be a recent media or arts graduate wishing to further your practice, have a background in visual arts and want to expand your studio practice to include audio-visual media, be an educator looking to deepen your understanding of interdisciplinary forms or you may be a professional working in the media industries who wants to reflect upon and challenge your professional practice.
If you choose to study on a postgraduate course at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, you will also benefit from being part of a vibrant international student community.
What You Will Study
- Experimental Practices: provides a laboratory environment to foster an experimental creative engagement with the moving image through workshops and lectures.
- Pilot Project: an opportunity to test the conceptual and practical aims of a major production project that you may then develop within the Production Project module.
- Production Project: provides you with tutorial and targeted workshop support for the production of a large scale and ambitious final project.
or - Research Project: enables you to frame and reflect on professional industry practice as research.
- Histories and Theories 1 and 2: explores theory and its relationship to practice in a variety of contexts relevant to the moving image.
- CCI Research Methods 1, Research Paradigms: develops your research skills relevant to a creative, practice-led field of study.
or - Research and Practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries: introduces you to approaches to creative practice and its consideration as research.
or - Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship: allows you to maximise entrepreneurial opportunities and orientate them towards industry practice.
Common Modules
The Faculty understands the importance of a strong grounding in research knowledge and skills, enterprise and innovation as part of a balanced postgraduate education.
We also recognise that each student has different requirements of their postgraduate experience.
You can choose to study one of the following three, 20 credit common modules. Each of these has a different focus, enabling you to select the module that will be most beneficial to you.
Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
This module aims to develop your knowledge of the methods to identify, develop and manage enterprise and innovation in the creative sector. It will then help you apply this to your own entrepreneurial project.
Research and Practice in the Creative and Cultural Industries
The focus of this module is on the development of research knowledge and skills, while also encouraging critical engagement with approaches to creative practice. You will also explore ideas, debates and issues in the creative and cultural industries.
Research Paradigms
This module focuses on research paradigms and their theoretical underpinnings. It also looks at key conceptual tools drawn from a wide range of subject areas relevant to postgraduate research in the creative industries.
See our students’ work
Visit the MA Moving Image Channel on Vimeo.
Garrett Lynch, award leader, says: “This course is aimed at people already working with the moving image across a number of fields. It’s a highly creative course with an emphasis on using the moving image in a combination of ways as a form of self-expression and communication.”
“We get applications from individuals who have completed undergraduate degrees in art, media, animation and theatre to name a few. Each applicant uses the course to improve their understanding and use of the moving image within their field. We also get applications from professionals who have been in an industry for a number of years and wish to further and deepen their academic knowledge. To date this has included artists, art / media teachers or lecturers, independent media creative’s, film and video editors etc.”
“The course has a strong international contingent with students in the last three years coming from China, Bangladesh, Romania and South Africa as well as students from Wales and England. It encourages individuals to explore new ideas and ways of working which can benefit them personally and professionally.”
Contact Garrett to find out more about the course:
Email: glynch@glam.ac.uk
Tel: 01443 668630
Alternatively, visit the MA Moving Image Wordpress site.
How You Will Study
You will learn through workshops, lectures, screenings, master classes with industry professionals, seminars, guest lectures and field trips. Taught sessions from a number of academics within the fields of media and arts will challenge and develop your practical and theoretical skills. You will also receive mentoring as individual tutorials throughout your studies.
Course length
One year full-time: two terms of taught classes and one term of self-directed study.
Two years part-time: two terms of taught classes and two terms of self-directed study. This allows students to undertake a production outside the UK if they wish.
Learning Through Employment
Learning Through Employment is a University of Glamorgan framework that offers students who are already in employment the opportunity to gain credits towards a postgraduate qualification.
The programme is structured so that the majority of learning takes place through active and reflective engagement with your work activities, underpinned by the appropriate academic knowledge and skills.
All postgraduate courses at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries offer students the opportunity to undertake a 60 credit Learning Through Employment Research Project as an alternative to a traditional final dissertation, major project or production.
The focus of the project is an individual, organisational problem solving, knowledge-based approach.
As such, it has been is designed for practising professionals to provide them with the tools to succeed in the workplace.
This truly flexible approach means that projects can be based on an agreed area of work, benefitting students and employers, and because the majority of the project is carried out in the workplace, it can potentially be undertaken anywhere in the world.
For full details, visit our Learning Through Employment pages.
Possible Career Options
On completion of the MA in Moving Image, you will have developed your skills as an individual practitioner and be prepared for a range of technical or artistic roles in the commercial or cultural sector. The course is also a highly appropriate mode of study if you wish to study at PhD level within the media or arts.
Additional Information
Facilities
Our purpose built ATRiuM campus in Cardiff features state-of-the-art facilities for audio and video production and editing, graphic design, studio recording and more. The building is an engine room for the next generation of media practitioners and thinkers. Read more on our facilities page
