Live Brief

This module is designed to prepare you for real world experience working to a set deadline with commissioned and client driven briefs. Briefs will be set by external clients and assessed. Clients include: Grain, Studio Away, RPS, Frank, D&AD, Pylot Magazine, ITV.

Created and edited by Maria Antoniadou, Billy Moore and Mark Wright.

Guided by BCU staff Ravi Deepres and Steve Chamberlain and working directly with original material from the photographic archives at the Library of Birmingham, three final year Photography students have created a still and moving image work exploring the theme of conflict within an historical and contemporary context. From the Siege of Paris in 1870, the Birmingham Blitz of 1940 to contemporary problems we subconsciously ignore or innocently never notice, we experience conflicts in different ways. The project culminates in a multimedia piece which seeks to explore both the realisation and loss of identity which occurs through the clouded, smoke and mirror, somewhat never understood, experience of conflict

Created by Flaminia Vannozzi and Anna Urik

With a monologue that is constructed from the real thoughts and experiences of women living in the city, 'Am I Lonely?' is a fashion film that tackles the societal taboo of loneliness in an individualistic, aspirational society. The contrast between inner vulnerability and polished outward appearance is both poignant and poetic.