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| Application Deadline: | 1 August | ||
| Location: | Bristol / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Bristol
This interdisciplinary MA, unique in the UK, combines theory and practice to develop understandings of the challenges in developing archaeological concepts in media contexts. Students work in both the Archaeology and Anthropology Department and the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television. An integral part of the programme is a placement with a Time Team production shoot.
The programme enables you to acquire archaeological research skills, and to examine how archaeology has been presented on television and related media, and through heritage centres and museums. You will also acquire media production and post-production skills, with the emphasis on creative thought and practice. Strands within the units address programme research methods, script development and production, and the potential of post-production. Each unit integrates an understanding of professional practice with critical reflection.
Presentations, written work and practice-based assessments provide a progressive evaluation of your abilities in archaeological research methods and in media skills. The emphasis is on individual/ group project work, which may involve written output, audio-visual submissions or a combination of both.
Contents
Compulsory Units
Materialities
Introduction to key elements and concepts of Historical and Contemporary archaeology, Landscape and Garden archaeology, Maritime and Conflict Archaeology. Provides insights into the construction and nature of archaeological knowledge, demonstrates how artefacts become heritage, how this heritage is presented to the public, and how all archaeologies seek to illuminate past human behaviours.
Mediatised Archaeologies
Critical overview of audio-visual representations of archaeology and material heritage in the context of current broadcast industry practice.
Project Development
Prepares you for your dissertation. Workshops, seminars and screenings that focus on place, space and material culture take you through the conceptual and practical stages of project development.
Students must also take ONE of the following:
Screen Narrative Practices
As a foundation for the understanding of the languages, techniques and processes of storytelling in film (both fiction and non-fiction) the unit introduces narrative concepts through a set of precisely structured practical exercises.
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Production in Practice
This intensive and practical unit introduces you to the use and operation of industry-standard professional hardware and software. Larger class sessions concentrate on the conceptual development and planning processes of small-scale production.
Time Team Placement
Placements take place in the spring/ summer.
Dissertation
* A 15,000-word written dissertation that addresses a topic connecting media and archaeology, or
* A practice-led audio-visual submission that encourages exploration of archaeological and media concepts through innovative use of forms, structure and style, with supporting documentation and 7,500-word critical analysis, or
* An industry-focused audio-visual submission that requires the production of a screen work that locates form, structure and style within contexts, concepts and conventions of professional practice with supporting documentation and 5,000-word critical analysis, or
* A professional placement case study that allows you to explore a professional working environment of your choice with supporting documentation and 7,500-word critical analysis
Optional Units
* Screen Histories: Documentary
* Performance/Place/Space
* Screen Research Methods
* Screen Style and Aesthetics
* Screening Nations
* Specialised Individual Study
* TV Forms
* Critical Theory
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
Entry requirements
A good degree (or equivalent) or demonstrable professional experience in either archaeology or the media. International students: GPA of 3.2 or equivalent. Mature students are very welcome.
Language requirements
An IELTS score of 6.5 in all bands. We also accept other language tests; please see our website for details.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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