Hyperfictions MA, PgD
School of Creative Arts
Institution Code H36
Programme Code CCPGFM
Start date
September
More about the course
Hyperfictions is an award inside the Postgraduate Media Programme. Primarily concerned with telling stories, with creating fictions that delight, entertain and inform in one way or another, Hyperfictions brings together traditions and practices of narrative with technological inventiveness and media creativity. Students explore among the many possibilities for innovative artefacts that combine elements of literature, cinema, computer games, and interactive toys, to create things that are more than simple hybrids of those forms.
The range of things that might be made in Hyperfictions runs through on-line text or image based stories, web art and web comics, soundtoys, podcast spoken voice narratives, text stories, interactive cinema artefacts, narratives embedded in constructed objects, new radio forms. Hyperfictions is about experimenting with and exploiting the aesthetic possibilities of interactive media to create experiences that fascinate and are resonant with meanings, metaphors and rich emotional responses. discussion and idea.
Work placement
There are work related learning opportunities on this course.Careers
Particular emphasis is given to providing you with the skills necessary to further your career as a media artist using interactive technologies. The course is designed to help you understand and work within the contemporary media environment. Particular attention is given to helping you acquire enquiry and information handling skills, enterprise skills in the development and presentation of ideas, in communicating in the spoken and written word, and addressing particular audiences.Teaching methods
On this programme teaching and learning emphasises enquiry led project work, developing the kind of independence and autonomy that is appropriate for postgraduate education. Lectures, seminars and other discussions bring students together in multi-disciplinary groups where ideas are shared, challenged, developed. Workshops and other activities develop specific discipline centered skills and understandings while tutorials develop individual study trajectories and responses to assignment tasks and briefs. Much of the time students are engaged in self-managed independent study, undertaking enquiries and research, developing skills, inventing and developing ideas, realizing project outcomes, exploring the cultural resonance of their work.Course structure
Detailed information about the structure of the course and the modules you will study.