School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Screen Post-Production
  • Unit Code

    MSP6115
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Catherine HENKEL

Description

Raw footage is transformed into polished, impactful stories in post-production. In this unit, students will develop their knowledge and skills of the workflows that occur after the wrap up of filming. They will learn the variety of post-production roles, tools and the skills required to do them effectively, efficiently and in a way that develops their style through exercises and projects in the post-production pipeline. The unit will cover video editing, assistant editing, colour grading, sound editing and mixing as well as distribution pathways and post-production management practices.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the effectiveness of professional post-production practices, tools and workflows for screen productions.
  2. Justify creative decisions made in the post-production process using advanced communication skills.
  3. Evaluate their ability to work collaboratively as a member of a team on professional screen projects.
  4. Reflect critically on their project management, process documentation, and creative process in the post-production stage.

Unit Content

  1. Variety and responsibilities of roles in the screen post-production stage.
  2. Skills and workflows for editing and post-production sound tools and software.
  3. Creative planning, research and decision-making for the post-production stage.
  4. Final cut edits and sound mixes of screen projects.
  5. Professional quality checks and Digital Cinema Packages (DCP) for cinema distribution.
  6. Workflow evaluation in post-production settings.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

In addition to participating in timetabled classes, students will need to be available to participate in some intensive screen production creation process during the teaching period. The screen production schedule will be made available to students at the beginning of the teaching period.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPost workflow and creative plan 40%
PortfolioPortfolio of creative practice60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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