ACF207 - Animation Project
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Riley Mclaren |
| Prerequisite: | Students must complete unit ACF107 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 3-hour seminar per week |
Content
This is a project-based unit. Students both individually and as a group are set tasks of creating and producing a short animation film in response to and framed by a set piece of spoken recorded sound. The unit focuses on the relationship between sound and image, including lip-syncing technique responses to a spoken word recording. This is a real-world application that requires students to acquire and apply knowledge as required by the specific needs of their project. Problems range from creating narrative film ideas, selecting animation styles in keeping with storyline, creating animatics and resolving sync-sound issues related to a character’s mouth movements. Students further enhance their skills in archival research and character development. Use of animation strategies and technologies developed in other animation units are applied in this unit. An important challenge for the project in this unit is to produce a narrative for an occurrence or event for which there is no visual moving image record.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Select and utilize a variety of animation software, image creation strategies and styles to build an animatic appropriate for a project brief | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Communicate the social, economic and cultural implications of a project, and its academic relevance and value | GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO3 | Co-ordinate, plan, script and produce a storyboard for a short animation both in a group and individually | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving GLO7: Teamwork |
| ULO4 | Produce a lip-sync character-based animation project through the pre-production, production and postproduction stages | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO6: Self-management |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 - In class exercises | 20% | Information not yet available | |
| Assessment 2 - Storyboard and Animatic | 30% | Information not yet available | |
| Assessment 3 - Animation Project | 50% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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