What is covered, week by week, and which topics each screening draws on.

Every screening the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team reference. A course decides how many screenings it needs; one of them carries a real deck. related: connects lectures to the sessions and assessments they feed.

Naming the genre

Why "slop" is a genre term and not an insult, and what a semester of taking it seriously is supposed to produce

Week 1 · 22 February 2027

The anatomy of a tell

Extending the deck's five tells with three more, and the mechanics of why each one is the specific shape it is

Week 2 · 1 March 2027

Prompting as direction

Treating prompt-writing as a directing discipline — shot type, blocking and coverage as textual grammar, and where that grammar runs into the medium's actual limits

Week 3 · 8 March 2027

The economics of volume

Why slop gets made — ad-tech incentives, content-farm economics, and the specific mechanism by which platforms reward volume over craft

Week 4 · 15 March 2027

Genre and pastiche

Slop as genre remix — the AI history explainer, the product demo nobody filmed, faith-based inspirational content — and why AI pastiche is sincerity-agnostic in a way authored pastiche never is

Week 5 · 22 March 2027

Four lenses, one argument

A synthesis of weeks 1 through 5's vocabulary, and what each lens specifically contributes to a Slop Teardown

Week 6 · 29 March 2027

Systems thinking for slop

Why the unit of analysis for slop is the pipeline that made it, not the clip that got shared

Week 7 · 5 April 2027

Scheduling and scale

What changes about prompts, review and distribution once you're producing fifty of something a week instead of one

Week 8 · 12 April 2027

The business case for slop

Turning weeks 7 and 8's pipeline mechanics into the cost-and-return argument the Slop Pipeline submission has to make

Week 9 · 19 April 2027

Sustained coherence

Why keeping one visual language across linked pieces is harder than making any single piece look right, and what breaks first

Week 10 · 26 April 2027

The director's statement

Authorial intent as a genre convention, the ethics of synthetic performers, and what a festival's disclosure rule actually asks a director to admit

Week 11 · 3 May 2027

Slop as a genre, restated

A retrospective on the semester's argument that AI-generated video is a genre with its own tells, economics and ethics, using the case studies that carried it

Week 12 · 10 May 2027