Ask AUB: a Virtual Open Evening

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We like to call it community.

Because when you're an online student, you might think that you that you're all by yourself and, you'll just have like a couple of prerecorded presentations to look at and then hand in your assignment, but it's not like that at all. One of our students gave feedback on this recently because, you know, I asked the the students how are you finding the course? You know, what you really like. And she said that to have that feeling of being involved in the group, she really appreciated that.

And also this, you know, it's flexible as it's online and your presentations are recorded, you can look at them when you want. This is another point of feedback students are saying that they really do appreciate not like a normal lecture where it sort of goes over your head and you've got to write notes or something, refer back to your notes.

The lectures you can play back there's lecture notes included in everything.

And also, like I said, that the industry, connections that students make. So are already making connections with industry and, reaching out to these presenters that, are all willing to sort of give to the course. So, yeah, there's a lot of support, and I won't say too much about it because I'm sure the others have got the same stories, but, it's not only the support that they get on the online, it's the advisors, the court advisors, but they're there the whole time. So if anybody's got any questions or problems, they can go to the course advisers, or they can just post a question online that they post whatever they want to know, post a question, and then they get their feedback.

Feel like the career pathway is multifarious and lots of possibilities there within film.

Specifically to think about skills that this course would equip students with.

You know, there are practical and creative skills, so encouraging students to explore new materials or techniques in their filmmaking work.

We also kind of prioritize film analysis and research methods and try and encourage students to gain a contextual understanding of their practice in relation to the creative industries and with wider areas of visual culture.

Because films are ultimately only as good as the ideas that support them.

Communication and presentation are also really important skills to find work and to be a successful filmmaker in lots of different disciplines within the industry.

So we encourage students to kind of synthesize their ideas, develop compelling project proposals and bring them to life through collaboration.

However, we do encourage, very strongly, developing an online studio community of practice; the students are always, engaging with each other, sharing ideas, swapping briefs, swapping designs, getting feedback from each other, as if we were part of a practice, of however many students we are. So, no, we don't have any sort of, group projects in that traditional sense. The other thing we do is, of course, landscape architecture is a very collaborative discipline, not many landscape architects would be working completely independently on any project, and obviously as the projects increase in scale and complexity, like with interior design, one is always part of a wider kind of range of people, and that's something we look at very much in terms of analysis and understanding and looking at exemplars and really understanding where the landscape practice sits within the other disciplines. It's a strong part of our course.