Current active subject description (last updated 2020/21)
Bachelor Production
VFX3300
Current active subject description (last updated 2020/21)

Bachelor Production

VFX3300
Bachelor production is the final production on your 3-year bachelor program. In this course you can chose to dive deeper into a specific subject or role and do your own project, or together in a group of students. Your project has to be approved by the faculty/advisors. We strongly recommend to do your project in relationship with the industry. This can be done either during a 2 month long internship, or as a separate team working with industry as clients or partners.
To start this course your need at least 90 ects inside of the bachelor programs "Film and TV Production" or "3D art, animation and VFX" or similar.

When the students have finished the course they can:

Skills:

  • Formulate a good researh question and pitch this for supervisors and (if relevant) external clients.
  • Refer to relevant theory that is adapted to the research question and production
  • Collaborate with others on a bachelor production
  • Present idea, script, storyboard, production plan and cost estimate for your production
  • Do a market survey on the target group for your bachelor production

Knowledge:

  • Understand profesional production pipeline
  • Understand the need for relevant theory for  your production
  • Understand production as a methodology for getting answers to your research question
  • Relate answers from your survey to your research questions

General competence:

  • Be more reflective 
  • Understand the industry standards

Your bachelor production will also include a report on maximum 40 pages (ex attachemnts) which should include a discussion of, and reflection about the production. The report should include the following:

  • project background
  • your own opinions 
  • target audience and market potential for your production
  • research question, how was this designed and demarcated?
  • working methods, both in the studio / field
  • was the technical challenges along the way, and how were these resolved?
  • choices and limitations in relation to genre, technique, effects, music, graphics etc.
  • ethical or copyright problem that production had to take into account
  • issues related to deadline
  • if there are more students involved in the production, how was the division of labor, and how did it work?
  • if the production had been implemented again, what should have been done differently?

Synopsis, script, storyboard, production planning and calculation must be attached the report. If you use copyrighted music, please enclose a copy of the form that is filled out to TONO/NCB.

No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.
Students do evaluation on both courses and the hole curriculum.

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