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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Screen Project: Client-Based

  • Unit Code

    SCR6105

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit involves the pre-production, production and post-production of a screen project that serves a client need. This could be a magazine/lifestyle show, advertisement or video in support of the music industry, a corporate entity or the community. Working in teams, students establish a relationship with a client, ascertain the clients requirements and take on the role of producer, writer, director, editor, cinematographer, sound recordist or performer for the project.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge and skills with high level of personal autonomy and accountability within a sustained and resolved body of work, appropriate to the client-based production role undertaken.
  2. Collaborate, lead, negotiate and interact with others as a member of a client-based production team to complete a quality screen project.
  3. Critically analyse the client-based production process and identify areas for improvement.
  4. Demonstrate the discipline, commitment and interpersonal skills necessary to work as a member of a client-based production team.
  5. Establish and maintain a positive client relationship.
  6. Generate and maintain the documentation required for the client-based production.
  7. Generate, research and explore ideas, concepts and processes in the field through integrated creative, critical and reflective thinking.
  8. Work effectively to schedules, budgets and production parameters.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis ofthe client-based production process and solutions for improvement.
  2. Documenting the client-based production role.
  3. Journal of activities during the client-based production process.
  4. Pre-production, production and post-production roles for client-based screen projects.
  5. Reflection on the process and evaluation of contribution to the client-based production.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Screen production workshops.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalJournal15%
ReportReport15%
ProjectProduction Project70%

Text References

  • Douglas Spotted Eagle. (2003). Copyright for video producers: My voice, my choice - some basic copyright caveats. (electronic resource). Sundance Media Group/VASST.
  • Alexander, S. (Coord. Ed.). (2002). The satchel production budgeting & film management. Sydney, Australia: Australian Film Commission.
  • Bastian, C. (1994). Film production management. Boston, MAS: Focal Press.
  • Simon, M. (1994). Storyboard: Motion in art. Orlando, FLA: Nomis Creations.
  • Honthan, E.L. (2013). The complete film production handbook (electronic resource). Hoboken, NJ: Taylor and Francis.
  • Richter, T. (2007). The 30-second storyteller: The art and business of directing commercials. Boston, MAS: Thomson Course Technology PTR.
  • Schwartz, L.M. (2007). Making music videos: Everything you need to know from the best in the business. Watson-Guptill / Billboard Books.

Website References

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Screen Project: Client-Based

  • Unit Code

    SCR6105

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit involves the pre-production, production and post-production of a screen project that serves a client need. This could be a magazine/lifestyle show, advertisement or video in support of the music industry, a corporate entity or the community. Working in teams, students establish a relationship with a client, ascertain the clients requirements and take on the role of producer, writer, director, editor, cinematographer, sound recordist or performer for the project.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge and skills with high level of personal autonomy and accountability within a sustained and resolved body of work, appropriate to the client-based production role undertaken.
  2. Collaborate, lead, negotiate and interact with others as a member of a client-based production team to complete a quality screen project.
  3. Critically analyse the client-based production process and identify areas for improvement.
  4. Demonstrate the discipline, commitment and interpersonal skills necessary to work as a member of a client-based production team.
  5. Establish and maintain a positive client relationship.
  6. Generate and maintain the documentation required for the client-based production.
  7. Generate, research and explore ideas, concepts and processes in the field through integrated creative, critical and reflective thinking.
  8. Work effectively to schedules, budgets and production parameters.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis ofthe client-based production process and solutions for improvement.
  2. Documenting the client-based production role.
  3. Journal of activities during the client-based production process.
  4. Pre-production, production and post-production roles for client-based screen projects.
  5. Reflection on the process and evaluation of contribution to the client-based production.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Screen production workshops.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalJournal15%
ReportReport15%
ProjectProduction Project70%

Text References

  • Douglas Spotted Eagle. (2003). Copyright for video producers: My voice, my choice - some basic copyright caveats. (electronic resource). Sundance Media Group/VASST.
  • Alexander, S. (Coord. Ed.). (2002). The satchel production budgeting & film management. Sydney, Australia: Australian Film Commission.
  • Bastian, C. (1994). Film production management. Boston, MAS: Focal Press.
  • Simon, M. (1994). Storyboard: Motion in art. Orlando, FLA: Nomis Creations.
  • Honthan, E.L. (2013). The complete film production handbook (electronic resource). Hoboken, NJ: Taylor and Francis.
  • Richter, T. (2007). The 30-second storyteller: The art and business of directing commercials. Boston, MAS: Thomson Course Technology PTR.
  • Schwartz, L.M. (2007). Making music videos: Everything you need to know from the best in the business. Watson-Guptill / Billboard Books.

Website References

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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