This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Lecture Syllabus
The module will start with a week or more of intensive exposure to the animation and post-production industry in the form of a field trip to visit a number of London studios and interview/lecture sessions with a large number of industry professionals. Students work on a substantial essay concerning the animation/post production industry using information obtained from these sessions and from further seminars. Simultaneously, students develop a showreel compilation which industry professionals comment on. From this experience, students develop a direction and then a treatment and storyboard for their final project proposal which they will present to the cohort. After comments, tutorials and revisions, this will be developed into a pre-visualisation movie, a schedule and asset plan which will also be presented to the cohort.
Coursework
There are three assessments:
Assessment 1 - A portfolio of pre-visualization and animatic movies.
Assessment 2 - Essay on the student's understanding of the animation/post-production industry.
Assessment 3 - Submission of planning documents for a major piece.
There will be 38 contact hours, whilst the total workload is 150 hours
Only available to students on programmes owned by The School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Assessment 1 - a portfolio of pre-visualization and animatic movies, the successful completion of which
fulfils learning outcome 1 and generic learning outcomes.
Assessment 2 - Essay on the student's understanding of the animation/post-production industry, the
successful completion of which fulfils learning outcome 2.
Assessment 3 - Submission of planning documents for a major piece, the successful completion of
which fulfils learning outcome 3.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successful completion of the module, students will:
1. be able to read and make a storyboard, animatic and previsualisation at a professional level;
2. have a detailed and effective knowledge of the global animation and post-production industry,
including its standards and requirements for graduate employees;
3. will be able to prepare and present a substantial professional production plan with a treatment, a list of
assets and a schedule.
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