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Riphah Institute of Media Studies
Riphah Institute of Media Studies is the newest institute of Riphah International University, Rawalpindi, recently established in the traditional Old Supreme Court Building, with an aim to fill in the gaps in the field of media education and research in the region. Ever since the inception of Pakistan till today, there have been very few institutions offering qualifications in the field of Media till today. Professionals in the field of Media are hard to find and most people working in the current media industry of Pakistan have either learnt their skills on job or through limited professional training during the course of their work. Professionals with formal education in the arena of media and TV production are very hard to find. Keeping in view the dynamic growth in the Media industry around the world, the professions have become far more challenging and the only one way forward is by competing on professional ground which may not be possible unless one has the knowledge, abilities and skills to perform the various media functions. Staring form undergraduate programmes in early 2007, the university plans to provide conducive environment for research and development in the field of Media Studies thereby offering awards of MPhil and PhDs in the near future. The overall aim is the capacity building of the human resource for the media industry, to equip Pakistani students with the necessary skills and knowledge to enable them to successfully complete degrees at the University of Bedfordshire and to build up students abilities for their further academic studies and professional development in the future. A number of contracts have already been signed with the leading Media including print, broadcast and electronic media for the internships and placements of our students. Guest lectures are also an integral part of the curriculum at RIMS. Media icons, professionals and celebrities would be imparting guest lectures on their areas of expertise.
An agreement of collaboration has been signed with the University of Bedfordshire for the launch of the first two undergraduate programs as under:
BA (Hons) Media Production BA (Hons) TV Production The four-year bachelor’s programmes would be split into two halves of 2-years each. Students will be studying for the initial two years at RIMS, after which they would be travel to the University of Bedfordshire for the last two years. The degree would be awarded by the University of Bedfordshire. Students who would find it difficult to travel abroad will have an opportunity to complete their programme at RIMS and the degree in which case will be awarded by Riphah International University. Riphah International University also holds a license for student Radio Channel and is in the process of applying for an educational TV channel. The university offers a hi-tech environment for learning and is open to either sex. However the traditional Islamic values in its culture and traditions are maintained. The institute has been duly equipped with the state of art resources including the following:
TV Studios Editing labs equipped with latest Macintosh NLE systems. Audio recording room
Media Arts
Electronic Newsrooms
Screening room Art room Customized classrooms
Digital Video Suites
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Multimedia Computer Suite
ENG (Outdoor recording equipment)
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BA (Hons) Media Production Duration:
4 years full-time (starts in January)
Assessment:
Practical productions, in-class presentations and essays
UCAS Code:
P310
Key features:
Access to high-quality production facilities Relates critical studies of cinema to production work in video Provides opportunities to study photography and animation
About the course:
You will consider the way in which media products are created and the social and cultural factors that shape and influence the creative process. You will explore these issues through substantial production work together with reflective critical analysis of your own and other people’s work. Most of media products are produced by team of people, so you will develop the ability to work in groups. You will utilise practical skills such as budgeting and time management and then combine them with technical production skills.
Career Opportunities:
Areas of study include:
Career paths open to you include film, television and digital media production, freelance and independent production and journalism. Reading Hollywood Media skills and production Exploring production practices Cinema cultures Professional development
Contact:
T: 0800 389 6633 +44 (0) 1582 743960 E: enquiries@luton.ac.uk
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Courses Riphah International University YEAR 1
YEAR 2
Semester 1 • Skills and Crafts • Media Skills and Production-1 • Islamic Arts and Heritage • Academic English • Photography-1 • Drawing and Design-1
Semester 3 • Skills for Professional Development in the Creative Industries PPAD • Reading Hollywood-2 • Urdu Drama & Literature-2 • Exploring Performance Practices-1 • Action Reporting-2 • Video Graphy
Semester 2 • Reading Hollywood-1 • Media Skills and Production-2 • Urdu Drama & Literature-1 • Action Reporting-1 • Photography-2 • Drawing and Design-2 • Screen Writing
Semester 4 • Critical History of Media Institutions from Phantasmagoria to Cyberspace • Exploring Performance Practices-2 • Frame by Frame • Communication Skills • English Literature
Courses University of Bedfordshire YEAR 1
YEAR 2
Semester 1 • Skills and Crafts-1 • Media Skills and Production-1 • Islamic Arts and Heritage • Academic English • Photography-1
Semester 3 • Urdu Drama & Literature-2 • Exploring Performance Practices-1 • Skills for Professional Development in the Creative Industries PPAD • Action Reporting-2 • Frame by Frame-1 • Photography-2
Semester 2 • Reading Hollywood-1 • Media Skills and Production-2 • Urdu Drama & Literature-1 • Action Reporting-1
Semester 4 • Critical History of Media Institutions from Phantasmagoria to Cyberspace • Exploring Performance Practices-2 • Frame by Frame-2
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BA (Hons) Television Production Duration:
4 years full-time (starts in January)
Assessment:
Practical production work, presentations, group work and essays
UCAS Code:
W610
Key features:
The chance to develop your craft in rigorous production framework The opportunity to develop a substantial portfolio Equips you with a high level of technical proficiency in all aspects of digital video production
About the Course:
The television production course enables you to explore all aspects of the moving image and learn the key production skills you will need to turn your ideas into realised projects. The course enables you to explore digital moving image production across a wide range of interconnected disciplines – form narrative fiction and documentary production – while at the same time developing your skills in cinematography, sound, design, editing, lighting, scriptwriting, directing and producing.
Career Opportunities:
Areas of study include:
The course will prepare you for careers in the television industry including terrestrial, satellite broadcasting and the growth number of cable- and we-based television channels. Other career opportunities include television advertising, public relations and marketing. Video skills Film stars and film genres Representing reality Shaping and selling ideas for television
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Women on both sides of the camera Sound design Experimental practices in production Contact:
T: 0800 389 6633 +44 (0) 1582 743960 E: enquiries@luton.ac.uk
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Modules Module Code: DEM01-1
Module Code: DEM05-1
Module Name: Film Stars and Genres
Module Name: Skills for Professional Development in Media (PPAD)
Credit Value:
15
This module will explore a range of films in relation to generic codes and conventions. We will explore the role of stars in the film industry, concentrating on Mel Gibson as a case study. We will examine how the star is used in relation to narrative, film style and genre. We will also examine the power the star has to influence and control film production. Using selected texts the course will consider how genre and stardom can be understood in the context of social, cultural and industrial changes. We will also discuss how genre and star roles have been used to convey discourses about masculine and famine identity.
Credit Value: 15 This module will provide you with research, team working and presentation skills that will prepare you for further academic study of the media. It will help you to identify your strengths and areas of further development and you will begin to plan for your career development and future employment. You will achieve this through conception, planning and presentation of a new and innovative mass media product. You can choose to work in any area of the mass media-film, television, newspapers, magazines or online multimedia.
Module Code: DEM02-1
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Module Name: Media in Context
Module Name: Ways of Seeing 1 & 2
Credit Value:
Credit Value:
15
30
This module builds upon the practical knowledge gained in the first semester by introducing the major theoretical debates concerning the power and influence of the media in society. After an introduction to and historical overview of theories of media and society, leaders will focus on the topics of media ownership and control, audiences, and representations by the media. The module will concentrate on media in Britain.
This module examines popular films and narrative form - encouraging learners to unpack the theory and practice of commercial productions.
Module Code: DEM03-1
Module Code: DEM08-2
Module Name: Multimedia Web Authoring
Module Name: Film & Television Documentary
Credit Value:
Credit Value:
15
This module will help you to build your understanding of how multimedia artefacts are created. You will develop production team working skills through the use of critical evaluation and explore typical production practices. Learners will have the opportunity to develop skills by working in a simulated production team to solve real production problems. You will also enhance your technical skills by learning how to use additional software tools. The emphasis in this module will be to create a website as a site for screening learners work and inviting audience critique.
It enables them to explore their theories through written work both as essays and as production scripts. Specifically the module looks at fiction films and narrative form, and examines learner’s assumptions about the construction and content of fiction films and popular television programmes.
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This module is a 30 credit module and will run over two semesters. The majority of semester one will be used to explore and develop an understanding of what constitutes documentary programming. Learners will examine the codes and conventions of documentary and how these have been redefined. The module also provides learners with an opportunity to put skills developed in other modules into practice in order to produce a short documentary. Learners will be encouraged to enter their finished productions into competitions and film festivals.
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Module Code: DEM09-2
Module Code: DEM11-2
Module Name: Media Industries
Module Name: Production Management PDP
Credit Value:
Credit Value:
15
The aim of this module is to help learners further develop their knowledge and understanding of media industries. The module involves learners in an investigation and assessment of the patterns of media ownership and control; the economic, ideological, ethical and regulatory contexts within which media organisations operate; and the impact that new technology has had, and will continue to have, on these media industries. It is anticipated that learners undertaking this module will want to choose a particular sector of the media as their focus of study.
Module Code:
15
This module will allow learners to demonstrate their understanding of production management. Learners will have to plan and manage a production using their skills in production planning, resource management and people management. Learners will produce production schedules, budgets and logistical information in order to complete the production. This module will build on existing skills developed and demonstrated in level 1 particularly in Experience of work, Ways of Seeing and Film Studies. The emphasis for this production will be different than Experience of work as this production will be fictional and link in with Script writing in level 2 Semester 1 and Set Design and Construction level 2 Semester 1.
DEM10-2
Module Name: Multimedia Production Processes
Module Code: DEM13-2
Credit Value:
Module Name: Set Design and Construction
15
This module will help you build your understanding of how multimedia artefacts are created. You will develop production team working skills through a critical evaluation of typical production practices. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills by working in a simulated production team to solve real production problems. You will also enhance your technical skills by learning how to use additional software tools. The emphasis in this module will be on web based multimedia including sound and vision. Multimedia Production Processes should be see as an extension on Multimedia Web Authoring from Semester 1 level 1 where you created a web page / site to include work from the course. In this module you can revise work already completed and take it in a different direction or create a completely new piece of work
Credit Value:
This module will enable learners to develop skills in set design and construction. Learners will be able to put designs in to practice during production, especially in the module Production Management Semester 1 Level 2, however learners might also find this module informative for Film and Television Documentary Semesters 1& 2 Level 2. Set design and construction enables learners to deign and build models of sets so that they can plan with greater efficiency for actual shoots.
Module Code: DEM14-2 Module Name: Using Visual Language Credit Value:
Module Code: DEM12-2 Module Name: Script Writing ( Fiction) for Television and Film Credit Value:
15
This module will enable learners to develop drama scripts in the conventional format. They can devise a script from an original idea or adapt another author’s work, although this option has copyright considerations which the learners must explore. This module covers, research, dialogue, characterisation, action and visualisation. Work produced in the first part of this module will be used as a basis for Assessment 2 in Production Management.
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This module will examine the concept of visual language and will foster an understanding of both theoretical and practical approaches to the communication of ideas. Particular attention will be paid to image construction and composition. By tracing the history of visual language with emphasis on 20th Century film images, learners will be introduced to theories of perception, composition form and realisation. The focus of this module will be the development and realisation of visual ideas. To this end the module will examine the various approaches to visualisation by people who, take photographs and make films. Such observations will draw attention to the higher levels of visual processing.
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Module Code:
MED05-1 (Leave blank if new module)
Module Code:
MEP10-1 (Leave blank if new module)
Module Name:
Media Skills and Production 1
Module Name:
Critical History of Media Institutions: From Phantasmagoria to Cyberspace
Credit Value:
30
Credit Value:
15
The year long Media Skills and Production (MSP) module concentrates on single camera work making recordings on location for subsequent editing. It provides a thorough introduction to: basic video production skills, the conventions film continuity and creative approaches to narrative fiction.
In this module students will be introduced to the history and regulation of media institutions from early developments of the technologies to digitization and the remediation of old forms on the internet. Students will gain an understanding of the effect of political economy on the development of media institutions and explore the convergence in the broadcast, print and music industries.
Module Code:
MED07-1
Module Name:
Exploring Performance Practices
Credit Value:
30
This module aims to provide the student with an understanding of the performer and their text. It will consider how a performer prepares for the auditioning process and provide a solid foundation in the student’s understanding of writing drama for the medium of television. The first part of the module introduces students to both sides of the auditioning and casting process. It examines how a performer should prepare both themselves and their text for an audition and how casting sessions should be organised and managed. Students will be able to develop their ideas and talents in a busy and supportive seminar and workshop environment throughout the module The second part of the module introduces students to contemporary scriptwriting and drama that is analysed in terms of structure/form/content, and its role as the site for social comment. Students will also be introduced to basic theoretical issues relevant to communication/media analysis. For their final assessment students will undertake the practical, intellectual and creative task of producing a script. Students will study and utilise all elements needed for such an undertaking. It examines in detail structure, form and content in contemporary drama in order to understand its formal composition. In addition, it aims to examine its role in exploring particular social issues.
The module includes practical teaching about lens characteristics, digital video and sound recording using small and standard size cameras, digital editing using Final Cut Pro. Throughout the year, students are encouraged to try out different production roles while working in small production teams.
Module Code:
MED18-1 (Leave blank if new module)
Module Name:
Reading Hollywood
Credit Value:
30
This module examines popular films and narrative. Specifically the module looks at fiction films and narrative form, and examines students' assumptions about the construction and content of fiction films. Students will explore the role of stars in the film industry and examine how they are used in relation to narrative, film style and genre. They will discuss how genre and star roles have been used to convey discourses about masculine and feminine identity.
Module Code:
MED21-1 (Leave blank if new module)
Module Name:
Skills for Professional Development in the Creative Industries
Credit Value: This module will provide you with research, team working and academic skills that will prepare you for academic study of the media. In this module you can focus on any area related to the media – television, film, music in the media, reporting, researching etc. It will focus on your own career path and ideas for utilizing your time at the University to develop your CV as well as attaining your degree.
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