Overview

This unit enhances creative, collaborative and project management skills while raising awareness of commercial uses for animation. Working within a team environment, students will demonstrate professional competencies across a range of animation platforms, commercial tools, and methodologies to produce and market a fully resolved short animated film. Upon successful completion of the unit, students will emerge with a portfolio to be used for professional level engagement

Requisites

Prerequisites
ANI30003 Major Project: Preproduction

Rules

Pre-requisite
FTV30014 Major Project: Screen Writing
AND
DDD30041 Major Project: Development and Pre-Production 
OR
ANI30001 Major Project: Development and Pre-Production

Equivalent
DAN30005 - Animation Capstone Project V1 (Discontinued) and DAN30005 - Major Project: Production and Post Production V2 (Discontinued) and HDANM311 - Animation Capstone Project

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Use professional language to describe production and post-production activities
  • Apply appropriate planning and management strategies to production and post-production activities
  • Integrate a range of specialised production techniques to construct and market a short animated film
  • Apply teamwork and effective communication skills to work with others to achieve common goals
  • Evaluate production and post-production activities to argue the commercial readiness of an animated film
  • Compose a coherent body of work that can be used for professional engagement within the animation industry

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class
6.00 12 weeks 72
Specified Activities
Various
6.00 12 weeks 72
Unspecified Activities
Various
13.00 12 weeks 156
TOTAL300

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Major Production ProjectGroup 40% 1,2,3,4,5,6 
Marketing ProjectGroup 20% 1,2,3,4,5,6 
PortfolioIndividual 40% 1,2,3,5,6 

Content

  • Team and group dynamics
  • Project management and strategies
  • Self-promotion, marketing and advertising of animation
  • Commercial production and post-production practice, processes and techniques
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.