Topic outline

  • University of Greenwich - BA Media and Communications

    Lecturer: Rae-ann Smith

    Campus - Port of Spain

    This course provides a foundation for students embarking on a self‐directed process of study, research and practice leading to a practice-based output in one of a number of mediated forms supported by the department (see below). During the first term the student is required to submit a proposal for either a group or solo project, depending on the project. A significant feature of the course is that once the student's proposed area of activity has been agreed, they are mentored in working towards their goal through regular focused tutorials. 

    Medium

    Output

    Project Type

     

    Group

    Solo

    Marketing

    Multiplatform project

    X

    X

    Creative Writing

    Portfolio of poems (450 - 650 lines); Short Story (6000 words)

     

    X

    Screenplay

    60-100 page (60-100 min) correctly formatted screenplay plus supported docs (as required) – a read through presentation of part of the script (30 min)

     

    X

    Magazine

    Online magazine & printed publication

    X

    X

    Imaging

    Photography Portfolio; DVD slide-show; a series of prints and/or digital composites. Presented as a book; framed/mounted prints; slideshow/installation etc...

     

    X

    Movie

    30 min. Short Narrative Fiction (must include 20-30 page correctly formatted screenplay); 30 min. Documentary

    X

    X

    Performance / Monologue

    30 min. DVD video of live performance; Written play / Monologue (for a 30 min performance)

    X

    X

    Multimedia & Installation.

    An exhibited work, installation, live presentation or online project. (Can include a solo video project for gallery presentation.)

    X

    X

    Sound

    A radiophonic work; studio-based composition; installation work or silent movie soundtrack. Duration: 20 min.

    X

    X

    In each field you will find projects from past cohorts of the course. 

  • Heroes Among Us

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is dytung@hotmail.com

  • What is Life?

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    'What is life?' is a photo essay and its main aim is to question the true essence of life. It revisits an aged old questioning of the meaning of life by philosophers such as Aristotle. It shies away from death being the ultimate finality of life, but looks rather on life as a continuum that speaks to a legacy of caring.

     In doing so it targets an audience aged 25 to 35 years who have families.

     It plays on the concept of memory theory as a tool to understanding the “continuity of self”.


  • A Lot More That Meets the Eye

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is stephansingh89@gmail.com


  • Numbered

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is teddi_b@live.com

  • A Darker Side of the Sun

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is jkristy@hotmail.com

  • Explaining race and ethnicity to kids

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  • We Are One

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is scandolouslaughter@hotmail.com

  • The Unmasking of Black Consciousness

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    The Unmasking of Black Consciousness is the understanding of not just black empowerment, but the gateway inside the mind where most of us can find wisdom and purpose through struggle, emptiness, sacrifice and through the fasting of reflection - ultimately leading to the light of Super Conscious behaviour.  The aim of the research project is to answer the question," Can the combination of negative images and positive Hip Hop music be used to awaken consciousness in young black males?" 


  • Folk Fantasy - Storytelling through Dance

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is ingle.watson@gmail.com

  • Breaking the Silence: Screaming Out Loud

    Restricted Not available unless: Your Email address is goringgirl@gmail.com

  • Overcoming the Fear

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    Lou Anne Ollivierre

    Overcoming the Fear.

    Can I overcome my fear using macro photography? Using this type of photography means getting very close to your subject. This proved very difficult for me. It was far more challenging than I anticipated. I did learn a lot along the way and I am in a better place now than when I started this research.




  • Promise

    GROUP MEMBERS:   

    Marsha Glodon-Lakatoo

    Keri Khadoo

    Cevel Regis

    The short film Promise reflects on the worldwide, fast growing pandemic, Human Trafficking, focusing on one of the majoring trafficking hubs, Trinidad and Tobago. Promise Yorke, a fourteen year old girl from a middle class family is abducted and possibly killed while trying to escape her captors.  While Trinidad and Tobago produces many short films in the drama genre, the producers of "Promise” seek to employ theory which will enlighten audiences on this ever growing epidemic to touch viewer emotions. The themes "Promise” chooses to employ are the financial involvement and the public's view on the issue while promoting awareness on Human Trafficking.

    • Ad Infinitum

      This project seeks to explore some of the main themes experienced when dealing with Alzheimer's disease, and creating visual representations of those themes.





    • System: An Interactive Game

      System is an online interactive fiction game meant to be played by a single player. In the middle of an ordinary afternoon, Joseph, System’s main character, is hard at work, packing groceries in a low-brow grocery store in an unnamed city. He derives no joy from this work, but it is the only kind available to someone like him, having spent several years in jail. During a break, his best friend Phillip comes to him with a proposition: sell stolen goods on the behalf of Phillip’s boss, Mr. Manswell. At this point in the game, various storylines arch outwards, as the player is invited to direct Joseph’s next steps. Does he turn Phillip down, knowing the offer of $2,500 to help Phillip by driving him through the city is too good to be true? Or does he in fact agree to help, knowing that he is on the verge of being evicted because of overdue rent?

      Play System now

    • DonateTT

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      • Your Email address is khadijalamy@gmail.com
      • Your Email address is khadija.collins@gmail.com
      • Your Email address is dexterscott12@hotmail.com
      Group Members: Khadija Lamy, Khadija Collins and Dexter Scott


      This project came in response to the increased rate of new kidney related illnesses/diseases in Trinidad and Tobago, Donate TT is a twofold marketing campaign. The first aim is to encourage nationals to become deceased kidney donors. Secondly, Donate TT intends to create awareness of the Kidney Recipients Support Group of Trinidad and Tobago (KRSGOTT) and by extension the National Organ Transplant Unit and its kidney donor programme.

      The marketing campaign consisted of Social Media, Print Media, Radio and Guerrilla Marketing components. These forms of media were chosen in an attempt to reach a target group of healthy, consenting adults between the ages of 18 to 60. This presentation will outline all the components of the campaign that was implemented by the students.


    • Virtually Print

      Student - Catherine Souddama

      Virtually Print is a project designed to rekindle an interest in tactility; a feature that is all but lost in today’s world where interaction through screens and the pressing or tapping of buttons have become the norm. Through an integration of interactive print design and virtual game concepts, the project seeks to examine primarily whether a similar sense of engagement experienced in virtual gaming can be captured in a print medium and also how design can be used to shape the choices made in navigational play.

      In the form of a publication utilizing interactive print design, this concept of choice was observed through the user’s/reader’s interaction with the artifact and how they navigate the maze of choices presented.  The format follows that of a virtual adventure game set in halls Trinidad’s own Magnificent Seven – a collection of colonial-era buildings whose architectural styles reveal the diverse historical heritage of the twin-island republic. The experience begins with a choice: where to begin or more specifically, on which page?  Utilizing historically accurate facts about the seven structures, the readers will be guided on a quest through Trinidad’s colonial past to discover hidden pieces of their eventual prize.

       


    • A Voice to the Voiceless

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      • Your Email address is kimtylerbest@gmail.com
      • Your Email address is schenroxy@gmail.com
      • Your Email address is desolationjonah@hotmail.com
      • Your Email address is tutk19@yahoo.com
      Kimberly Tylerbest, Schenell Roxborough, Omar Morain, Akil Williams

    • Being on the Warf

      Kibwe Brathwaithe, Crystal Ann Rodriguez, Dominique Piper
      • Being on the Wharf URL

        The idea to produce a documentary was conceived during a class discussion among a group of students. While expressing interest in the story of the fishermen’s plight at King’s Wharf in San Fernando, it was observed that some of Martin Heidegger’s concepts could be applied to this contemporary issue; therefore it was decided to pursue their story. The idea was to highlight the fishermen’s dilemma while demonstrating how the observations of this Philosopher could still be applied today. In fact, it could give the audience an opportunity to examine the issue from a viewpoint other than an economic or political one.

        The proposal to replace Kings Wharf with a boardwalk similar to the development in Chaguaramas has been met with mixed reviews. Of all stakeholders involved, the fishermen from the Wharf will be the most affected. According to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger they will be affected in a more intrinsic way.