Cardiff ATRiuM: £1,000 Bursaries to Cannes Film Festival for Skillset Screen Academy Wales Students Deadline 31 March 2008

[Pictured above: Sexy Starlet with photographers - Cannes Film Festival (probably taken in 1979). This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.]

Comment peut dire 'sexy' dans votre langue?

Welsh Film Students, have you made your application to attend Cannes Film Festival 2008?



Deadline: 5pm 31st March

To receive an official form and to make applications please act QUICKLY and contact: sara[at]screenacademywales[dot]org

There are three festival bursaries of £1,000 each available to current MA Film (UWN), MA Film Producing and Business Management (UoG) and MA Moving Image (UoG) and Animation students for the Cannes Film Festival 2008.

Cannes Film Festival



"The festival is where the film industry meets to do business. Every year hordes of producers, directors, buyers and sellers and unknown hopefuls descend on the seaside town all eager to make the deal of a lifetime."

"Many of them will spend their time wheeling and dealing in hotel suites across Cannes, and will leave with contracts and contacts but without having seen a single film in the competition."

BBC NEWs -- Why Cannes counts

The bursaries are to cover accreditation, travel, accommodation and mentor expenses.

SSAW will organise the accreditation of those attending and will discuss travel and accommodation arrangements with those chosen.



The Deadline is the:

31st March. You can e-mail your application but please mark it CANNES.

For those of you who have completed films and you are wanting to submit for a place -- Then please drop those off at the Screen Academy Wales office.
 
PLEASE NOTE: The pitching session – where you will be required to pitch your film or a film idea to a panel of industry professionals will be Wednesday 2nd April from 11 – 4 p.m. but you will be notified of your time before the day.


 
Please also note that we are opening the application to graduated MA students – who graduated in the last year – so do send an application in if possible -
 
This is a fantastic opportunity and not to be missed!

Film Festival de Cannes

Payment of bursary

If you are awarded a bursary, costs will be reimbursed to you on production of original receipts.

Credit/debit card receipts must be accompanied by till receipts.



Receipts must be submitted within two weeks of return from the festival to:

Sara Herritty at SSAW, University of Wales, Newport, PO Box 179, Newport, Gwent NP18 3YG. Your bursary will be paid by cheque within two weeks of receiving receipts.



This could be the chance of a lifetime -- So what are you waiting for, an engraved invitation?

Skillset Screen Academy Wales

Additional info:

You will need to compose a brief statement containing -- Your Reason for attending Cannes Film Festival:

Please indicate in 300 words (max) statement why SSAW should support you to attend, what you expect to gain from the experience and how you see it relating to your development on your course.

A panel of designated mentors will assess your application and you will then be invited to a pitching workshop.

For those students that have made a film, please submit this with your application to the Screen Academy office address indicated above

You will then be asked to attend a pitching workshop that will be taking place Wednesday April 2nd 2008.



[Pictured above: Sexy Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones is frequently seen 'on the redcarpet' at festivals around the world, including Cannes! Photo: Getty Images]



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

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Cardiff ATRiuM: Storytelling Symposium in the Welsh Capital 18-19 March 2008

[Pictured above: George Ewart Evans (1909–88) was a pioneering oral historian. He published a series of books examining the disappearing customs and way of life of rural Suffolk, the best know of these is Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay. He was also an accomplished story writer and wrote short-stories, novels and poems. George Ewart Evans was born and raised in the mining community of Abercynon, a stone’s throw from the University of Glamorgan where the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling is based.]

George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Annual Lecture and Symposium 2008 - Storytelling and Authenticity

Event Date March 18, 2008 10 a.m. – March 19, 2008
Location – Atrium

The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling annual lecture and symposium takes place on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th March. This year we are holding the event in our new ATRiuM building in the centre of Cardiff.

Final details are still to be confirmed but so far we are pleased to be able to announce the following sessions

George Ewart Evans Lecture and Reception Tuesday 18th March 2008

Professor Richard Bauman will present his keynote lecture on Tuesday evening, this will be followed by a reception and dinner in the newly opened Atrium building of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Glamorgan.

The dinner will be followed by story and music performance by Guto Dafis.

Professor Richard Bauman The Remediation of Storytelling: Narrative Performance on Early Commercial Sound Recording
Professor Richard Bauman, Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has published widely on the ethnographic study of language and performance.



He has served as president of the Semiotic Society of America, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and the Society of Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Among many other professional activities, he has been chair of the Folklife Advisory Council of the Smithsonian Institution, editor of the Journal of American Folklore, and a member of more than 15 editorial boards.

He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Folklore Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and twice holder of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.

Professor Bauman’s keynote lecture will focus on narrative and development of sound recording. The years between 1895 and 1920 represented a formative period in the commercial development of sound recording in the U.S. as nascent recording companies attempted to create a consumer market for phonograph records and the machines on which to play them.



As recording companies sought to discover what might attract consumers to purchase records, they drew heavily upon traditional performance forms, such as storytelling, oratory, and religious sermons, and upon popular entertainments, such as minstrel shows, early vaudeville, medicine shows, tent shows, and Chautauqua, all of which had proven themselves attractive to popular audiences.

The adaptation of these traditional and popular performance forms to phonograph records involves the process of remediation, specifically, the rendering of embodied, face-to-face performance forms through the mediation of another communicative technology, sound recording.



In this paper, I explore what happens when we render oral storytelling, formerly experienced live, in situations of copresence, when the immediacy of copresence is transformed into a mediated experience.

Chair: Professor Mike Wilson

Symposium Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th March 2008

This two day symposium will examine issues raised in the keynote lecture and the implications for storytelling and authenticity. The symposium is structured around a series of keynote ‘provocations’, with maximum time allocated for debate and discussion on the issues raised.

Tuesday 18th March 2008

Tale-Enders: Gathering the Narrative Heritage of Welsh Cricket Launch

We are proud to be able to launch this project which brings together the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling and Glamorgan Cricket to explore the use of storytelling and technology to populate the new Museum of Welsh Cricket at Sophia Gardens as part of the current £9.6 million redevelopment in advance of hosting an Ashes Tests in 2009.

The launch will be followed by a free buffet lunch.

Susie Pratt and Lisa Heledd Digital Storytelling

Susie Pratt (Research Fellow, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling) and Lisa Heledd (Capture Wales, BBC Wales and Postgraduate Researcher in Digital Storytelling, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling) will run a digital storytelling workshop.

This session will explore the latest developments in digital storytelling and present some of the current research being carried out by members of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling team.

Joseph Sobol The Razor’s Edge: The American Storytelling Movement in 2008

Joseph Sobol (Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University), author of The House Between Earth and Sky: Harvesting New American Folktales and The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival, will present a lecture and workshop exploring issues raised in the American Storytelling movement and the resonances they might have for people working in Wales and the UK.



The American Storytelling movement has matured in certain unmistakable ways—and not in others.

This mixed development has placed major stresses on the organizational base and on those working in the field.

This talk will identify some of the stresses—organizational, artistic, and economic--and suggest some avenues of potential evolution and relief.

Wednesday 19th March 2008

Dick Leith “Authenticity” and “Ownership”: How to Shut People Up

Academic and storyteller Dick Leith will explore his own recollections of the 1950s and 60s folk revival in Britain and how issues raised during that period are resurfacing today.



He will examine notions of the authentic voice and questions regarding how this concept has been used both to silence and to empower. Chair: Susie Pratt (Research Fellow, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling)

Professor Hande Birkalan Gedik Uses of Authenticity: Responsibility, Re-presentation and Re-contextualization of Folklore Performances

Professor Hande Birkalan Gedik (Associate Professor, Yeditepe University, Istanbul) will aim to bring light to the concepts of “authenticity” and “authority” in folklore performances in selective examples from Turkey.



She will be discussing these concepts primarily as a “native” woman and as a folklorist with an educational up-bringing in the American folkloristics. Chair: Joseph Sobol (Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University)

Neil Lanham 'Who is the truly educated man: The one who can grown onions or the man who can spell them?' - (George Ewart-Evans P.17 'The Horse in the Furrow 1960). A view from the onion grower's perspective

Neil Lanham was born in 1938 into a rudimentary small farm way of life. He observed early in his life that culture came from the spoken word of the indigenous vernacular people around him.

He has recorded both mentally and physically oral idioms ever since. This paper will investigate concepts of authenticity and indigenous voice. Chair: Hamish Fyfe (Co-Director, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling and Professor of Arts in the Community)

Venue: Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff Cost:

Lecture is FREE but booking is essential. Dinner and story and music performance: £30/€40 Symposium: £60 /€80 organisation, £40/€55 individual waged, £25/€35 individual unwaged

To book your place at this event call 01443 3668631 or email storytelling@glam.ac.uk

For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2008 Dr. Mark Leslie Woods

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Cardiff ATRiuM Scholars Publish Exciting New Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance

Dear Colleagues:

The first issue of this new Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance has just been published by Intellect.

It is edited by Richard Hand and Katja Krebs with the help of Martha Minier and marks a step forward for Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries (CCI/ATRiuM) in having an internationally refereed journal coming out of the faculty.

This is a fantastic achievement and is recognition of CCI/ATRiuM's growing stature in this field of research.

Congratulations to all concerned!

The first issue is available as a free download:

Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Volume 1 Issue 1

ISSN: 17536421



Editors:
Richard J. Hand
University of Glamorgan
rhand[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Katja Krebs
University of Glamorgan
kkrebs[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.

In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.

Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.



Aims and Scope:

Adaptation in the form of the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.

In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.



Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.

As an academic discipline, Adaptation Studies has begun to establish itself in the last few decades as an important area of scholarship and research which continues to make significant contributions to our analysis and understanding of a complex and increasingly diverse world culture.



Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance is a new, peer- reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media.

Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media.



We would like to invite contributions that offer historical, theoretical or practice- based considerations and discussions of adaptation in performance in the context of one of the following topics:

Translation as adaptation / Theatre /
Film / Television / Radio / Gaming /
Graphic narratives
Submission Details

To submit to future editions, please, send your completed papers (4,000 – 6,000 words) accompanied by a short CV to the editors Richard Hand and Katja Krebs.



If you would like to discuss any specific proposals before submitting a completed paper, please contact the editors.

Short ‘Notes and Comments’ contributions (up to 1000 words) that facilitate debate and exchange will also be considered.

Articles in the current issues include:

Art of the Past: Adapting Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
Authors: Sarah Artt

Adaptation as Education: A Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Authors: Freda Chapple

In Praise of Treason: Translating Calabar
Authors: Pedro de Senna

Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Dominant Culture
Authors: Jim O’Loughlin

Translating the City: A Community Theatre Version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Authors: Duˇska Radosavljevic



It has been estimated that an overwhelming percentage of Welsh films and television dramas are intentionally based upon other literary sources.

This overwhelming dependence upon literary adaptation is primarily from important Welsh literary or cultural sources.

This suggests an attempt to ‘recall and recollect’ and to re-‘write the nation’, after a period of suppressed or neglected representations of Welsh-ness.

While Dave Berry’s book and other studies have attributed this Welsh dependence upon literary adaptation as ‘laziness’ (Berry 1994: 234), we see it as being related to issues of post-colonial ‘re-telling’ of a national story, or more related to the economics of production.



For example, Stephen Bayly directed Joni Jones (1982) as a well-received television series for S4C, an adaptation based upon the well-known children’s stories by R. Garallt Jones entitled Gwared y Gwirion or ‘Redemption of the Innocents’.

It is often the case in Wales, that directors will create a series which is actually suited to be converted into a feature film at a later date, should the funding and political will be present to effect the re-formatting.

Additionally, one of Wales's most famous sons is Andrew Davies, who is known around the world as the 'Prince of Adaptation'.

Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter.

He is the creator of the children's Marmalade Atkins television series and A Very Peculiar Practice, and is also well known for his adaptations of classic works of literature, including the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 1998 adaptation of Vanity Fair.



Literary and stage adaptations have added clout with film production investors, who assume that a successful novel or stage play will naturally make a successful film.

Some screenwriters have been known to 'invent' a novel AFTER writing a film script, for purposes of marketing the film, and for raising venture capital.

In small nations, broadcasting drama department Commissioning Editors often opt for an adaptation. This satisfies several remits: nationalistic and cultural agendas are fulfilled, while it's assumed that an established audience exists for the new film or TV series.

My favorite book on film and literature in general is Tom Corrigan's 'Film & Literature' (1999, Prentic Hall Inc / Simon & Schuster).

Here's a pleasant Youtube tribute to Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice:









'Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature' (Paperback) by John Desmond (Author), Peter Hawkes (Author) is concise and readable new text for courses in Film Adaptation or Film and Literature introduces students to the art of adapting works of literature for film.

'Adaptation' describes the interwoven histories of literature and film, presents key analytical approaches to adaptation, and provides an in-depth overview of adaptations of novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction, and animation.

The book concludes with an analysis of why adaptations sometimes fail.



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

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Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

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Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

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UK Companies Court ATRiuM Media Students Early to Find New Job Recruits

[Pictured above: montage of companies who list careers with the Media Job Site for UK Graduates, Digitalheads.co.uk]

End of an era for the "Welsh Wizard" (silent)

[About this video: Political drama as David Lloyd George resigns as Prime Minister in this 1922 newsreel from Topical News. The film is now owned by the British Film Institute.]

Digitalheads.co.uk is one of the companies visiting Cardiff ATRiuM and looking for Media students to hire and place in new careers.

"digitalheads recruits for the digital industry - all roles, all levels, all online businesses. So whether you’re looking to recruit or to work in the industry, you know where to get a head."



According to Digitalheads.co.uk:

"Graduates are at the centre of everything we do. The e-marketing and e-media industry has grown so rapidly over the past few years that there’s a shortage of new talent to fill the gaps."



"Our aim is to open eyes and doors for students who are passionate about on-line media and who want to blaze a trail in the sector."

http://www.digitalheads.co.uk/

For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

AIM -- ATRiuM Intelligent Media, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on Face Book

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

Smart & Sexy? Your Queer Advantage is waiting!

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© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

Introduction to Creative Writing - new course for the 2007 Autumn term

[Pictured above: cover of Collected Writings of Rhys Davies, by Meic Stephens. Rhys Davies is an internationally-celebrated Welsh writer who was a native of the Rhondda Valley.]

University of Glamorgan Centre for Lifelong Learning

Introduction to Creative Writing - new course for the Autumn term
Event Date: September 27, 2007 6 p.m. – December 21, 2007 – 8 p.m.

Coed Y Lan Comprehensive School, Pontypridd

Come along and develop your knowledge and skills in writing fiction and non-fiction.

If you've got any questions about the event then please contact Claire Watkins from Centre for Life Long Learning on 01443 483650 or email at cwatkins@glam.ac.uk



Aspiring writers are encouraged to contact the Welsh Academy of Writers / Academi for information about writing courses in your area.

The Academi is the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors.

The Academi runs events, courses, competitions, including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, with the support of Cardiff Council and offering a First Prize of £5000, conferences, tours by authors, lectures, international exchanges, events for schools, readings, literary performances and festivals.

Academi is also responsible for the National Poet of Wales project and the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.



A sample of Univeristy of Glamorgan / Prifsygol Morgannwg Centre for Lifelong Learning courses currently offered:

Creative Industries:

WRITE NOW – AN INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Course Length: 12 weeks

This course will develop a student’s knowledge and skills in writing fiction and non-fiction. Students are encouraged to read widely and write independently. Examples of work by established authors will be given.

Participation in workshops as writer and critic are essential. Students will develop a grasp through practice of fundamental writing skills, an awareness of a range of genres and styles in fiction and/or non-fiction and a wider knowledge of contemporary literature.



EW0H01 CREATIVE WRITING *
Course Length: 12 weeks

This practical writing course will introduce students to some of the elements of storytelling, and will offer the opportunity to write in different genres, e.g. poetry, non-fiction and scriptwriting.

Students will be introduced to workshop methods; they will look at how to begin story writing, using reading and other stimuli as starting-points to work on story structure and character.

Other topics covered will include how to begin poetry writing, and non-fiction writing, e.g. travel, autobiography. Finally, students will receive a short introduction to writing for film.



EL0H01 ENGLISH LITERATURE *
Course Length: 12 weeks

This module will introduce students to the nature, methods and theories of English literary studies. Students will become familiar with the different genres of literary expression, e.g. novels, poems, plays.

The course explores a series of key questions and issues: What do I think I am doing when I read literature? What does literature think it is doing to me? What am I reading? What is a text?

Students will also examine mediums, periods and movements. Further questions will be raised: How do I make sense of this? Where do I fit into this? Students will learn narrative methods, and how to interpret texts. The relationship between author, text and reader will also be analysed.



FM1S02 APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF FILM AND TELEVISION *
Course Length: 12 weeks

This course provides a broad overview of the development of film and television drama, focusing on a variety of influences and trends including: industry, audience, technology, style, aesthetic, context, national cinemas and ‘new’ cinemas.

Students are introduced to key practitioners, films and programmes which have impacted on the developments of these media from early silent cinema to contemporary film and television.

Theories and ideas underpinning the growth of these media in different time periods and contexts are studied, as are the ways in which we construct and interpret cultural histories.



REHEARSAL FOR REALITY
Course Length: 12 weeks

This course aims to provide the student with an introduction to the Forum Theatre techniques for personal and group development. The course covers ‘uses and potential of Forum Theatre’ and students will be able to apply this knowledge to group sessions.

The students will also gain an understanding of the potential of self-development through creative group activity and self-reflection.



DEVISING PERFORMANCE
Course Length: 12 weeks

This non-accredited course aims to provide the student with the knowledge to identify, explore and realise the dramatic potential of a visual stimulus and to develop performance skills for personal and group development.

The student will understand the uses and potential of visual stimulus in dramatic work and be able to apply that knowledge to the group sessions.



WORKING ON SCRIPTS
Course Length: 12 weeks

This non-accredited course aims to provide the student with the knowledge to realise the potential of sub-text in performance for personal and group development.

Students will gain an understanding of the playwright’s intentions through the study, they will develop the ability to create a character and utilise a variety of performance techniques in order to represent a specific scene.

The student will also gain an understanding of the potential for the self-development through the creative individual and group activity and self-evaluation.



MP1H25 SCRIPTWRITING FOR MEDIA *
Course Length: 12 weeks

This course aims to enable students to write drama for radio, television and the cinema. Students will be introduced to the different narrative structures and characteristics of television drama, radio drama and cinema; story development, style, character, dialogue and location will be studied.

The function of documents such as the ‘synopsis’ and ‘treatment’ will be discussed, both for the writer and the producer.



MP2S49 SCRIPTWRITING – FILM *
Course Length: 12 weeks

This course aims to develop the student’s screenwriting skills. Each week a variety of approaches to short film will be discussed; students will learn the various stages of putting together their own screenplay, from the conception and expansion of their idea, through fully worked treatments, screenplay drafts, to the finalised screenplay.

By the end of this course, students will have completed two short film screenplays.



DR2S21 THEATER SCRIPTWRITING *
Course Length: 12 weeks

This course aims to enable students to develop and expand concepts into a complete dramatic script within a range of theatre genres, as well as further developing and expanding their theatre writing skills.

Guidance and support will be given throughout the entire process, as scripts are taken from conception to completion. On completion of this course students will have developed their skills as writers, and will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the historical development of theatre writing.



EL3H16 GOTHIC LITERATURE 1790s – 1820 *
Course Length: 12 weeks

The module explores a range of Gothic texts published over a period of thirty years. Students will investigate the developments in the form and will examine whether it is possible, or desirable, to reduce the Gothic to a set of characteristic conventions.

Students will observe how the Gothic often self-consciously makes reference to issues such as sexuality, class, and identity. The module also explores definitions of ‘Evil’ and how the Gothic uses this labelling in order to establish either politically, radical or reactionary perspectives.

Writers explored include Radcliffe, Lewis, Keats, Coleridge, and Mary Shelley.



STREET PHOTOGRAPHY – THE CAMERA IN THE CITY
Course Length: 12 weeks

The course provides an introduction to traditions of street photography, (i.e. photography whose subject matter is urban life in the streets, pubs, markets and other public spaces). The course explores the work of street photographers who have worked in Paris (Atget, Brassai), New York (Bernice Abbott, Weegee) and Cardiff (Bert Hardy, Daved Hurn).





INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Course Length: 10 weeks

This course requires students to have basic PC skills, and to be able to use a digital camera. Students will learn the fundamental principles of photography, digital camera control and picture composition.

They will learn how to transfer images to a computer, and the basics of computer image correction and enhancement. The course will teach the student about camera control (eg shutter speed) and how to deal with difficult lighting (eg getting exposure right).

The course will also look at photographing people (eg family events and social gatherings), sporting events and movement, and holiday and travel photography.



DE0H04 WORKING WITH DIGITAL IMAGES
Course Length: 12 weeks

This module will enable students to acquire basic knowledge and skills in digital image manipulation using suitable software tools. Students will learn how to restore photographic images and selectively colour monochrome images.

The module will also examine how to use a variety of tools to digitally enhance, ‘merge and blend’ and selectively copy and paste images.

This module can also be run as non-accredited.



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

AIM -- ATRiuM Intelligent Media, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on Face Book

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

Smart & Sexy? Your Queer Advantage is waiting!

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Queer Advantage, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Mordechai Razing Ziggurats, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Mordechai's Post-Evangelical-Granola on the World Wide Web.

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods