Media- and Culture Production

Aim

After completion of the course the student shall on an advanced level be able to:

• explain how technological, political, economic, and cultural transformations are affecting culture and media productions.

• relate to historical transformations of roles, professions, identities and career paths in fields of media and culture productions.

• employ and synthesize researched based methods in a case study for the study of production context, content, participants and audiences.

• argue for pros and cons of different uses of ethics and source criticism in media and culture productions.

• make professional use of digital technologies for linear as well as non-linear narration within the fields of media and cultural productions.

• independently integrate theories and methods in a media project.

• critically judge the development of the concept for a production and its presentation.

• based on relevant theories, account for the context of a production in terms of culture and media practices as well as audiences.

• within a set problem make theoretically informed searches and evaluations of content.

• independently define, develop and complete a project that intergrates structuration of content with a spatial concept and/or digital recording, editing and dissemination within set time frames.

Content

The course aims at developing the student's ability to analyze and operate within the conditions and contexts for contemporary media and cultural production. The course combines theoretical and historical studies of the functions, forms and roles that permeate productions within the fields of media and culture with the creation of an independent project that includes a media or cultural production. The course content is generated through an interplay throughout the course between theoretically substantiated production work and the study of productions based on cultural, social and media theoretical aspects. The course is organized around a project that involves fact- or fiction-based content and IT-based technologies for audio, video and/or space.