Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day an assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to written reports and recordings only. Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs) will be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application.

This unit is primarily delivered on campus, in order to facillitate skills development in collaboration and use of professional standard equipment.

For Creative Task 1 students work independently using their phones and laptops.

For Creative Task 2 students work in teams, with each persona perofrming an individually assessable role on a crew and using Macquarie University cameras, lights, sound recording gear and editing software. 

week 1 is a seminar on documentary forms and creative strategies

weeks 2 and 3 are project development

week 4 to 7 are on campus practicals developing shooting and editing strategies for your producitons

week 8 your first creative task is due on WEDNESDAY

week 8 is the start of the production period which runs through both weeks of the mid semester break and week nine. 

By the end of week 9 all groups must have their shoots finished and projects set up for editing.

week 10: first assemblies of Creative Task 2  must be screened in practicals, 

week 11: rough cuts must be screened in practicals

week 12: fine cuts with sound design must be screened in practicals

week 13: final submission of Creative Task 2 on Wednesday at 11:55 pm. 

Before you finalise your grade and sound you must meet, in the edit suite,  with Alex Ryan or Tom Benson to ensure that your work meets standards. You may get support for exporting during that meeting. You must ensure that your export settings are for ProRes422HQ as a minimum quality standard, adn you must export to your Exports folder on NEXIS. more details on ilearn.

Attendance is required at all practical classes. 

A minimum of 12 hours of your editing time (4 hours per week in weeks 10, 11, and 12)  must be on campus working collaborativelly with editor and director in the same edit suite at the same time. More collaborative on campus work is recommended so that you can get approrpiate input on the creative direction of the work from your team as well as input from lecturers or technical staff. 

A  minimum  of 4 hours of sound editing time must be on campus working collaborativelly with sound editor and director in the same edit suite at the same time. More collaborative on campus work is recommended so that you can get approrpiate input on the creative direction of the work from your team as well as input from lecturers or technical staff.