School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Production House: Industry Projects
  • Unit Code

    SPR3605
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Andrew EWING

Description

Screen producers are often required to work with clients and industry to create content that meets their needs and requirements. Learning how to manage relationships, respond to briefs, and produce content that meets expectations is essential for success in the industry. This unit explores professional practice through a simulated work environment of the city campus, which enables students to gain practical experience and develop their skills in client management, working in a writers’ room, project proposal creation, screen production, and evaluation. Students will leave the unit with scripts and project examples and a robust skillset that positions them well for careers in various aspects of screen production.

Prerequisite Rule

The student must complete 120 credit points in their current course of study before attempting this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design client-based screen production projects that align with industry standards and best practices.
  2. Prioritise professional relationships and effectively engage with clients in the context of screen media projects and campaigns.
  3. Communicate project goals and plans effectively, formulating industry-standard project proposal documents tailored to clients.
  4. Appraise project outcomes and critically consider the effectiveness of client engagement (management) and satisfaction to demonstrate critical reflection in professional practice.

Unit Content

  1. Management training to work with diverse clients.
  2. Understanding project briefs and expectations.
  3. Collaborating in a writers’ room.
  4. Delivering projects on time and to specification.

Learning Experience

WIL - Project

Students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

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
Group PresentationProposal for client. 10%
ExerciseIndustry script (individual work) 40%
ProjectIndustry based project. Group work.20%
Reflective PracticeReflection on contribution to production30%

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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