Module Code - Title:
MD6031
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MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERFORMING ARTS & ARTS RESEARCH
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To provide an introduction into current media technologies as they are used in the fields of performing arts, creative arts therapies, and arts research; to develop essential skills and fluency in these technologies in order to use them competently, creatively, and effectively in one's own specific discipline.
Syllabus:
Students will be introduced to the current media technologies in audio, video and stagecraft/soundcraft/lightcraft as pertinent to the programmes offering the course. Students will study and practise essential skills required to employ technology to create an audio/video project related to their field of study, using stagecraft/soundcraft/lightcraft where applicable.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Identify and understand the basic operation of equipment used in current media production (such as audio/video recording, amplification, and playback devices) and post-production (such as editing and enhancement/effects software); evaluate the situations in which the various types of hardware and software employed most efficiently; apply the appropriate technologies competently and creatively.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Evaluate the purposes for which specific technologies are used for given fieldwork, documentation, and creative tasks; make aesthetic and cognitive decisions based on these evaluations; recognise how the choice of equipment, recording methods and editing techniques can affect the subjectivity or objectivity of recorded or staged material; demonstrate the ability to conceive and execute a project employing the acquired knowledge and techniques.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Competently learn to operate a variety of audio and video recording and playback equipment, as applicable; skilfully operate and employ audio and visual stagecraft technology, as applicable; skilfully edit recorded material using current editing software.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module will be taught by presenting concise, current, and clear information about audio and video recording, playback, and editing equipment. By gaining fluency in equipment usage, and making aesthetic, ethical, and creative choices regarding use of the equipment, students will gain important knowledge applicable across a variety of creative and performing arts and arts research disciplines.
By interacting with members of other courses within the same module, students will also be able to collaborate and increase their knowledge and creativity through the cross-pollination of ideas. By being able to articulate their creative and analytical ideas using technology, students will gain an important skill set usable in performance, performance preparation and creation, arts research and cultural enquiry.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Artis, Anthony Q (2007)
The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide
, Focal Press (Burlington, MA, USA)
Bartlett, Bruce and Jenny (2012)
Practical Recording Techniques: The Step- by- Step Approach to
Professional Audio Recording (6th ed.)
, Focal Press (Burlington, MA, USA)
Young, Rick (2012)
The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X
, Focal Press (Burlington, MA, USA)
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson (2012)
Film Art: An Introduction, Tenth Edition
, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Other Relevant Texts:
Rumsey, F., McCormick, T. (2006)
Sound and Recording: An Introduction
, Focal Press, Oxford
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MARCSOTFA - RITUAL CHANT AND SONG
MACOMUTFA - COMMUNITY MUSIC
MACSPETFA - CLASSICAL STRING PERFORMANCE
MADANCTFA - Dance
MADAPETFA - DANCE PERFORMANCE
MAETCHTFA - ETHNOCHOREOLOGY
MAETMUTFA - ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
MAFEARTFA - FESTIVE ARTS
MAMUTHTFA - MUSIC THERAPY
MAITMPTFA - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
MDEDMUTFC - Education (Music)
BAVODAUFA - Voice and Dance
BAIMDAUFA - Irish Music and Dance
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
eoin.callery@ul.ie