MFC6033 - Digital Studio

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module provides a collaborative digital studio experience of the creative production workflow for film/tv/creative visual effects production.

In a studio environment led by the tutor, a digital visual effects sequence is produced utilising practical effects, motion graphics (animation), visualisation (pre-viz) and digital effects (computer generated).

Weekly technical production meetings direct and delegate the development and progress of the digital studio activities to produce media artefacts within the workflow, budgets, experiences/skills sets, production time, facilities and location towards realising the brief.

Theory will be applied to practical production in both semesters to create a visual effect/sequence as a production ‘company’, resulting in key evidence/portfolio/reel towards the next career step.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 16
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Consultancy Meetings
Hours: 4
Intended Group Size: 8

Workshop / Studio
Hours: 24
Intended Group Size: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 256

Further details relating to assessment
Assignment 1: Report/portfolio – this explains the digital effects sequence, including relevant technical and production documentation.

Assignment 2: Presentation: this is a walk-through of the student VFX project for the enterprise company.

Assignment 3: Portfolio: this is a set of technical production documentation evidencing how the student addressed the brief.

Early Assessment: there will be a formative assessment within the first 4 weeks and this will help unpack the assignment details for the 1st assignment as well as guide and inform student preparation and help introduce the University grading system.

Assessment:

001 Report/portfolio; 1,500 words; end of semester 1 25%
002 Presentation; 1,500 words; mid-semester 2 25%
003 Portfolio; 3,000 words; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - James Rothschild
Level - 6
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6YL

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