You will form project teams of 2 to 3 students each. This should be done as early as possible. After forming a project team, you will proppose a title and the storyline of the video. Then, you will work on your special effects project.

Project Deliverables:
Special effect video of no more than 1 minute.
Narrated "The Making Of ..." video of 1 to 3 minutes.

Important Notes:
Your effect video should focus on one significant special effect.
Your effect video must include real-life scenes and/or objects. That is, it must not be entirely
    computer animation.
Computer animation, if any, must interact with real-life objects seamlessly and realistically.
Audio effects, music, dialog, etc. are not required, but you may include them to make the
    effect more captivating. Audio effects are not assessed.

"The Making Of ..." video should be narrated. Record your narration and dub it into the video.
Just briefly but clearly describe how the main effect is achieved.
Plan your live shooting sessions such that you can shoot both the effect and "The Making
     Of ..." video at the same time. This will save you precious time.

We discourage these effects as they are not novel, unless you can do much better...

Project Outputs, Deadlines, and Grading Criteria:

Project proposal: 6th week

     Submit proposed project plan including

• Title of effect video
• Project team members
• The Effect:
  • A 1-line description of the effect to be achieved.
    You should focus on doing one significant effect instead of many mediocre effects.
• The Story:
  • A short description of the plot or storyline that makes the effect interesting and captivating.
  • A storyboard of the storyline. The storyboard should include information about camera moves and shots.
• Production Ideas:
  • A short description of how to achieve the effect and what techniques are needed to achieve the effect.
  • Descibe the visual elements needed to achieve the effect.
• Roles of team members
  • Each team member need to focus on doing a separate technical task well. Each member will be assessed on his/her technical achievement towards the final production.
• Plan for shooting live action footages.

Project progress update 1: 9th week

    

• Flow of storyline and creative use of camera, as depicted in the storyboard.
• Feasibilitiy of the project plan.
• Effectivemess of project execution.

Project Presentation Format
Each project group will present your project in a 45-min time slot:
     30 minutes to present your work + 10 minutes for question answering.

     Project Presentation Schedule

Your presentation should include the following (not necessarily in this order):
     Briefly explain the storyline and the main effect featured in your video.
     Explain how you achieve the main effect.
          Each member of the team must present the part that he/she work on in order to get the
          individual Technical Achievement grade.
     You can use PowerPoint slides or video clips or "The Making Of ..." video to explain.
          Limit your PowerPoint slides to no more than 20 slides.
          Just explain how you achieve the main effect.
     Show the effect video and "The Making Of ..." video.

The format of the special effect video should be AVI or MPEG-2.
     For videos submitted in AVI, please use standard AVI codec, such as Microsoft codec,
     DivX codec.
     
Submission will be done during presentation.

The project presentation is open to all students. In fact, we encourage you to watch other
     students' presentations. This way, you can judge for yourself how good is your project work
     compared to other students' project work.