Major Project: Production and Post Production
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
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
02-November-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 |
| TOTAL | 300 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major Production Project | Group | 40% | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Marketing Project | Group | 20% | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Portfolio | Individual | 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.