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Bluelight
DC 480

Fall 2015 | TTh 3:10 - 4:40pm | CDM 527

Instructor Scott Roberts

sroberts@cim.depaul.edu Office: CDM 507

Office hours TuTh 4:45-5:30

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Course Description

Production of a digital motion picture written by students or faculty within the Digital Cinema program. Students will work as crew under supervision of faculty members heading each of the various production areas. The goal is to produce a completed digital motion picture suitable for festivals or distribution.

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Note: This particular section is designed around an animated film directed by the instructor. The structure is similar to that of a professional animation studio, and is good preparation for the Animation capstone and your own films. The project will use multiple digital techniques, but will be heavily influenced by a graphic pen and ink style, and so proficiency in drawing, TVPaint, Photoshop, Flash and After Effects is a plus.

Learning
Goals

• Learn the specific animation techniques developed for this film.
• Utilize and push your own skills for individual animated scenes, while also learning to work collaboratively as a production team for one artistic vision.
• Engage different roles and responsibilities in a studio environment by following art direction, creative problem-solving and meeting regular deadlines.
• Complete the animation production for the short film.

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Attendance

• 0-2 absences = no effect on your final grade
• 3 absences = -10% of your final grade
• 4 absences = -20% of your final grade
• 5 absences = failing grade for the course (F)

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The student is responsible for any lectures or assignments missed. If an assignment is due a week that you are absent, it is your responsibility to make sure it still arrives on time. This is for your benefit. A good portion of our class time will be spent doing hands on tutorials, screening films, and critiquing work. Lecture notes will not make up for these missed learning experiences.

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READ THIS: You may not miss the final class date. Doing so will equal an automatic two letter grade reduction of your final grade. If for some reason you cannot make one of these dates you must contact your instructor BEFORE the class that you must miss. Excuses given after the fact will not be accepted.

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Dailies

Dailies refer to the rough footage completed per day on a film production. Your work in progress will be reviewed in class where you?ll have a chance to ask questions, receive notes and then submit it. All new work must be posted by the beginning of class, so that it may be compiled for the regular screening of the dailies.

Software

This class will mostly involve drawn animation in TVPaint.

Grading

100% In-class and out-of-class work, and effort

A = 4.0, A- = 3.67, B+ = 3.34, B = 3.0, B- = 2.67, C+ = 2.34, C = 2.0,
C- = 1.67, D+ = 1.34, D = 1, F = 0

A indicates excellence, B indicates good work, C indicates acceptable work, D work is unsatisfactory in some respects, F is unacceptable work.

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No incompletes will be given without documented proof of circumstances beyond your control.

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Academic Integrity

Work done for this course must adhere to the DePaul University Academic Integrity Policy, which you can review in the Student Handbook or by visiting http://studentaffairs.depaul.edu/homehandbook.html

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