Session 2 Learning and Teaching Update
The decision has been made to conduct study online for the remainder of Session 2 for all units WITHOUT mandatory on-campus learning activities. Exams for Session 2 will also be online where possible to do so.
This is due to the extension of the lockdown orders and to provide certainty around arrangements for the remainder of Session 2. We hope to return to campus beyond Session 2 as soon as it is safe and appropriate to do so.
Some classes/teaching activities cannot be moved online and must be taught on campus. You should already know if you are in one of these classes/teaching activities and your unit convenor will provide you with more information via iLearn. If you want to confirm, see the list of units with mandatory on-campus classes/teaching activities.
Visit the MQ COVID-19 information page for more detail.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
convenor
Karen Pearlman
Contact via karen.pearlman@mq.edu.au
10HA 193h
Wednesday 1pm (make a Zoom appointment via email)
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
40cp at 1000 level or above including (MAS 212 or MMCC2012)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This course introduces students to fundamentals of fiction film-making. It offers students the opportunity to develop capacities to: produce, direct, design, shoot, edit, or sound design fictional narratives. As part of a film crew students begin to develop a sense of their own creative affinities. The course aims to activate your aesthetic judgment and contribute to the cohesive collaborative production of screen stories and ideas. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Please note that the University and the Faculty of Arts have launched a new assessment policy effective as of 1 July 2021. This new policy particularly affects LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS.
The Faculty policy in relation to late assessment submissions is as follows:
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – 10 marks out of 100 credit will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted seven days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests, etc.
To be very clear:
These are serious penalties that will substantially alter your final grade and even determine whether you pass or fail this unit. Please make every effort to submit your assignment by the due date.
If you find you cannot submit your assignment on time, please apply for Special Consideration through AskMQ. Make sure you read Macquarie University's policy regarding Special Consideration requests before you apply: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/special-consideration
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Quizzes | 15% | No | 23:59 22/08/2021, 29/08/2021, 05/09/2021, 12/09/2021 |
Creative work 1 | 35% | No | 23:59 26/09/2021 |
Creative work 2 | 50% | No | 18:00 05/11/2021 |
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 16 hours
Due: 23:59 22/08/2021, 29/08/2021, 05/09/2021, 12/09/2021
Weighting: 15%
Multiple choice quizzes designed to consolidate learning from readings, lectures and equipment demonstrations (live, on video or through handouts). These quizzes support student knowledge acquisition and skills development in media practice and production.
Assessment Type 1: Creative work
Indicative Time on Task 2: 35 hours
Due: 23:59 26/09/2021
Weighting: 35%
Working in small groups, students respond creatively to a given script, and collaboratively produce a fiction scene or short film during the intensive period. Each student fulfils the responsibilities of one or more professional crew roles in this process. Through this task, students develop and demonstrate understanding of the continuity style of coverage, mise-en-scene, editing, and sound as creative tools for conveying stories and ideas.
Assessment Type 1: Creative work
Indicative Time on Task 2: 65 hours
Due: 18:00 05/11/2021
Weighting: 50%
Students individually, or in self organised small groups, script, shoot, edit, and sound design a short (approximately 3 to 5 minute) film using their own resources and the skills acquired in the intensive, to create a work suitable for their portfolios. Through this task students develop and demonstrate capacities for coherent and compelling onscreen storytelling. Through participation in zoom tutorials in the second half of semester, students develop their projects through successive stages of planning, shooting, editing and sound design, and also demonstrate ability to critically assess their own and others work. Final submission includes a 250 word reflection.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
UNIT DELIVERY:
PRACTICALS
there are 'practicals' for mmcc2013 that run for two hours each in weeks 1, 2, and 3, and in weeks 10,11, and 12. Students enrol in one of these at 11am, or 2pm, or 4pm on Mondays or Tuesdays. Practicals will be via Zoom unless otherwise notified.
WORKSHOP INTENSIVE
There is ONE intensive workshop that runs for THREE DAYS from 10am to 5pm during the first week of mid-semester break. Depending on the time-slot in which you do your practicals, you will be in an intensive which runs from Monday to Wednesday OR from Wednesday to Friday.
The Intensive will be face to face, unless COVID shuts it down in which case an alternative assessment task and process will be undertaken. Assuming it can be held face to face in mid-September, full attendance on all three days is expected and the workshop will be the source of one of your major assessment tasks. (Creative Task 1)
QUIZZES
the online quizzes provide technical and conceptual information you will need in order to succeed in the intensive. Quizzes are weekly in weeks 4, 5, 6, and 7.
WEEKS 1, 2, 3:
developing and pitching ideas, crewing, developing script and pre-production processes
WEEKS 4, 5, 6, 7
online learning and independently organised production development, weekly quizzes on camera, image, sound, light
MID-SEMESTER BREAK 3 DAY INTENSIVE
on set protocols, working in teams, camera and lighting, sound recording, editing software, editing craft
WEEK 2 of mid-semester break and WEEKS 8-9
Production period - working in independently organised schedules, teams shoot their planned fiction productions
WEEKS 10-11-12
assemblies, rough cuts and fine cuts of film productions, skills development in giving and receiving feedback, watching rushes, editing, & sound design
WEEK 13 FINALISE, EXPORT AND UPLOAD CREATIVE TASK 2 PRODUCTIONS, SUBMIT (Including reflection statements)
UNIT DELIVERY:
PRACTICALS
there are 'practicals' for mmcc2013 that run for two hours each in weeks 1, 2, and 3, and in weeks 10,11, and 12. Students enrol in one of these at 11am, or 2pm, or 4pm on Mondays or Tuesdays. Practicals will be via Zoom unless otherwise notified.
WORKSHOP INTENSIVE
There is ONE intensive workshop that runs for THREE DAYS from 10am to 5pm during the first week of mid-semester break. Depending on the time-slot in which you do your practicals, you will be in an intensive which runs from Monday to Wednesday OR from Wednesday to Friday.
The Intensive will be face to face, unless COVID shuts it down in which case an alternative assessment task and process will be undertaken. Assuming it can be held face to face in mid-September, full attendance on all three days is expected and the workshop will be the source of one of your major assessment tasks. (Creative Task 1)
QUIZZES
the online quizzes provide technical and conceptual information you will need in order to succeed in the intensive. Quizzes are weekly in weeks 4, 5, 6, and 7.
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Unit information based on version 2021.03 of the Handbook