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PRE PRE PAPERWORK 15%- Friday 28th Aug 5pm

Pre production paperwork should include:

Completed Storyboards with Shotlist & shooting schedule 

A comprehensive VFX breakdown including details on how you will achieve the desired effects from your proposal. 

All elements should be compiled into a PDF booklet

Project: Shot Film - 50%

Due: Friday 30th October 5pm

This is your completed short film that you proposed in term 1.

You should have planned and managed your project to  a strict Visual Effects production pipeline, so the highest possible quality is ensured. Your goal is to achieve visual correctness and full seamless integration on all elements in each shot. The audience must believe the shots.

You will be marked on the quality of your storytelling skills and how these have been developed into a fully comprehensive visual project.  There must be a high-quality production value on all individual elements. When producing each element of the shot paying particular attention to matching camera, lighting, colour and scale. Make sure lighting, colour, scale and camera match between shots for seamless storytelling.

All visuals must complement and enhance storytelling and must match your intended visual style.  Any Animation should be fluid and believable and should work in with the other elements in the shot. 

 All elements must be seamlessly integrated, colour graded, and corrected. The overall impact should be a suspension of belief, the audience must believe the piece to be real as it was a one plate shot. Title graphics and credits are professionally presented. 

The video needs to be compressed to YouTube and Vimeo formats for digital hand-in. 

Story: 25 

Compositing: 25

Final Delivery: 15

Total: 65

Blog: 25% 

Due: Friday 26th June - 5pm

Make sure you have a blog set up and tag/label all entries for this paper with the BSA627 tag/label.

You should be including very regular entries which cover material you have covered in class, preparation activities and all a project pipeline work. This is inclusive of all development work such as sketches and thumbnails. You should be including all research inclusive of readings, tutorials, animation reviews, game reviews etc.

There are a total of 20 weeks in the semester plus two weeks holiday so there should be at least equal to that as a minimum to pass.  If in a group, make it very clear what parts you were responsible for. 

Your blog must include:

• Sketches with annotation

• Tasks set by the tutor

• Articles related to your field, with annotation regarding your views

• All influences and visual research

• Your writings and notes on weekly classes.

• Animations watched throughout the semester with your reviews

• Photos, scans, renders or screen grabs of your experiments and process

• Reflections and self-evaluations on assessments and end of class effort

• Anything else you feel relevant to the class

Make sure all images, text and artist models are attributed appropriately with APA referencing.

Remember to:

• Date all your entries

• Keep in chronological order

• Keep it legible

Consistency of entry: 10

Relevance of entries: 10

Spelling/grammar: 5