Module Details
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Title Analysing Screen Music 1
Code MUSI553
Coordinator Dr AE Skjerseth
Music
A.Skjerseth@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2023-24 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

• To broaden students’ understanding of relevant literature, methodologies, and critical theories of music in audiovisual media
• To build appropriate research skills for closely analysing music, moving images, and their interaction
• To compare the different technologies, aesthetics, and practices of synchronising music to moving images

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Demonstrate a good understanding of relevant literature, methodologies, and critical theories of music in audiovisual media.

(LO2) Critically analyse the relationship between music, sound, and moving image.

(LO3) Compare the different technologies, aesthetics, and practices of synchronising music to moving images.

(LO4) Develop a research proposal grounded in the cultures, politics, techniques, etc., surrounding the use of music in audiovisual media.

(S1) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis.

(S2) Critical thinking and problem solving - Evaluation.

(S3) Communication (oral, written, and visual) - Presentation skills.

(S4) Communication (oral, written, and visual) - Media analysis.

Syllabus
 

Topics covered in this module may include:

• Key terms and techniques of synchronising music to moving images
• Histories of music in media, from early cinema sound to television and video games (including industrial and international contexts)
• Critical theories of music in screen media
• Uses of particular types of music for different genres, media forms, and cultural contexts
• Cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impacts of music in audiovisual media
• Research techniques

Resources will be made available to students through Canvas, UoL’s Learning Management System. Students will be expected to source supplementary resources to augment their learning outside of contact hours. Students will be expected to produce written work outside of the scheduled teaching hours.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lectures will be delivered in teaching rooms.

Screenings will be delivered in screening spaces.

The majority of teaching will be delivered face-to-face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on-campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 24

         36

 60
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 90
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Open-format project (essay/video essay/podcast, etc.) that closely analyses the music of an audiovisual scene There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This   0    30       
Screening journal 9,600 words (400 words per entry, two entries per week). Entry submissions staggered across three submission dates (S1, Wk 4, 8, 12). There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL  0    70       

Recommended Texts
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