Course Title: Undertake marketing activities
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2015
Course Code: MKTG7840C
Course Title: Undertake marketing activities
School: 345T Media and Communication
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6125 - Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting
Course Contact : Program Administration
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4815
Course Contact Email:mctafe@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Teacher: John Reeves
Phone: 03 9925 4895
Email: john.reeves@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 50
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Required Prior Study
At RMIT you are required to have completed all first year courses before enrolling in this course.
Course Description
In this course, you gain valuable industry experience that will help you to market yourself as a writer and/or script editor. You research the wider screenwriting industry to source a work placement in an area that interests you, and market yourself and your writing projects in order to arrange a placement. During your placement, you strengthen your industry networks and establish relationships which enhance your professional reputation while observing and participating in the development or production of current projects with industry mentors. You then reflect on ways that this industry experience will allow you to market yourself and your projects more effectively in the future.
Industry Placement Requirements
An agreement including schedule and relevant insurance documentation is required to be completed before commencing each placement (local and international). International placements must be registered and processed through RMIT Education Abroad. In the case where a placement ends early, please refer to 6. Early Termination of Placements in the Work Integrated Learning Procedure.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBMKG414B Undertake marketing activities |
Element: |
1. Research marketing information |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1. Research the concept of marketing as it applies to the organisation |
Element: |
2. Plan marketing activities |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1. Undertake analysis of collected basic marketing information |
Element: |
3. Implement marketing activities |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1. Determine and access resources required for work activities |
Element: |
4. Review marketing activities |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1. Measure and record outcomes of marketing activities |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you will have developed important professional networks and an awareness of ways in which you can market yourself as a freelancer in the broader screewriting industry.
Details of Learning Activities
In this course, you will learn through:
• online and other research
• work integrated learning
• teacher directed learning
• one-on-one discussion with your teacher
• independent study
• analysis and reflective practice
Teaching Schedule
Your 1-2 week (minimum 35 hours) industry placement takes place over a period of time to be negotiated by you with your host employer/s.
Each student’s work schedule will be different, so there is no ongoing weekly outline for classes. However, there will be an introductory class held in Semester 1 which aims to provide you with an overview of the unit of competency and information regarding the routines and protocols related to Practical Placement activities.
After this first scheduled meeting, you will research and explore the screenwriting industry in order to source a work placement in an area that interests you. You will develop a strategy, with the help of your teacher, to market yourself and your writing projects in order to arrange a placement. Your teacher will provide support and approve the arrangements and the scope of the position. Taking into account your study timetable and the needs of the host organisation, you then negotiate and complete your industry placement.
You are expected to maintain regular contact with your teacher through face-to-face meetings and through e-mail. These meetings are scheduled by you and the teacher together and will be logged and minuted as part of your assessment.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
While there are no prescribed texts you are strongly advised to make use of the listings of recommended reading and viewing posted on Blackboard, which will be updated on an ongoing basis. |
References
You are advised to look at the course myRMIT site for ongoing updated information. |
Other Resources
You will require access to a computer and the internet for this course. RMIT will provide you with further resources and tools for learning through our online systems and access to specialized facilities and relevant software. You will also have full access to the extensive Carlton and Swanston library resources.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course is ongoing throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through your market research, your engagement with industry networks and a written report reflecting on your ability to establish and conduct relationships with industry. You will also be assessed through a report from your host employer, that can be used as part of your future marketing strategy.
Assessment Tasks
To demonstrate competency in this course you need to complete all of the following pieces of assessment to a satisfactory standard. You will receive written feedback on all assessment (refer to Blackboard for assessment criteria).
Assessment #1: Action plan
A one-page action plan including a short description of the type of placement opportunity at which you’re aiming; the targeted organisations/individuals, their market segments, and your strategies for marketing yourself to them. You should also include an appraisal of how the experience you will gain while completing this placement might help you market yourself and your projects in the future.
Due: 16 February
Assessment #2: Organisation of a placement/Placement Journal
You are asked to maintain a personal Placement Journal as you research your target segment, market yourself, source, secure and organise a placement with the help and support of your teacher.
Your placement should be arranged by 6 July. Your Placement Journal should be lodged with your teacher during your professional conversation on 19 October.
Assessment #3: Complete the Placement
You will engage in script writing, development or editing work (or related work) with a professional production company or individual, or on an approved project. This engagement can take the form of observation and/or involvement in the writing process or other related tasks, including writing brief sample scenes or scripts for the production and obtaining feedback on your work from others involved in the project.
During your placement, you will organise a meeting with your workplace mentor to gain feedback on your career plan, as generated in your first-year studies, and to gain an understanding of the market in which the organisation or mentor works in. The details of this meeting, including feedback from your mentor and your own reflections on what was discussed, will form part of your later Professional Conversation.
Due: Placement needs to be completed by Monday 5 October.
Assessment # 4: Mentor Evaluation
Please supply a report from your mentor/ placement host in the form of a letter of reference. This should be submitted together with your Placement Journal during your professional conversation on 19 October.
Assessment #5: Your Placement Report/Professional Conversation
In a 15-minute recorded Professional Conversation with your teacher, you will be asked to reflect and report on your placement from the perspective of a screenwriter about to enter the workplace. This will include revisiting your first-year career plan, reviewing changes in perspective across your training program, and some indication of your future career pathway. Specific aspects include:
- the market your host organisation/individual operates in. How does it position itself? How does it differentiate itself from others? Where is it heading? What is its vision?
- your renewed understanding of roles and responsibilities of relevant personnel, script development, methods of accountability, scheduling, briefing, etc.
- the collaborative working process, and your ability to contribute to it
- the various steps you have taken to market yourself and to broaden your professional network
- how you have broadened your skills and employability through the tasks allocated, conversations with your workplace mentor, observation of script development, the production process and all writing and related tasks undertaken
- how the placement experience has enriched and perhaps altered your career development goals
- what course of action you will take into the future to build on the experience your placement has provided, and to increase your marketing profile and experience in the industry.
Due: 19 October
Grades which apply to courses delivered in accordance with competency-based assessment (not graded).
CAG Competency Achieved
NYC Not Yet Competent
DNS Did Not Submit for Assessment
Assessment Matrix
The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant Unit of Competency. These are available through the course contact in Program Administration.
Other Information
Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students
Attendance
The major learning experience involves studio based exercises, demonstration and production. It is strongly advised that students attend all sessions in order to engage in the required learning activities, ensuring the maximum opportunity to gain the competency. Non-attendance may seriously jeopardise the chances of success in a course. Clearly, non-attendance at an assessment will result in failure of that assessment. Where visa conditions apply, attendance is compulsory.
Cover Sheet for Submissions
You must complete a submission cover sheet for every piece of submitted work. This signed sheet acknowledges that you are aware of the plagiarism implications.
Credit Transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning (web link)
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a process through which people can gain entry to, or credit in, recognised courses based on competencies gained. The competencies may have been gained through experience in the workplace, in voluntary work, in social or domestic activities or through informal or formal training or other life experiences. Recognition of Current Competency (RCC) applies if a student has previously successfully completed the requirements of a unit of competency or module and is now required to be reassessed to ensure that the competency has been maintained.
Assessment and Feedback (web link)
You will receive verbal feedback during scheduled class times, and written feedback from teachers on your work . Where appropriate, this feedback will also include suggestions on how you can proceed to the next stage of developing your projects.
Student Progress (web link)
Monitoring academic progress is an important enabling and proactive strategy to assist you to achieve your learning potential.
Special consideration for Late Submission (web link)
All assessment tasks are required to be completed to a satisfactory level. If you are unable to complete any piece of assessment by the due date, you will need to apply for an extension. You can apply in writing for up to a week’s extension from your course teacher. If you need a longer extension, you will need to apply for special consideration.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism (web link)
RMIT University has a strict policy on plagiarism and academic integrity. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy go to Academic Integrity
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