# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Direct a Slop Feature](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/assessments/direct-a-slop-feature/): The capstone — a sustained slop narrative, or a trailer plus its promotional cuts, committed to one story, one visual language and one genre for its full runtime, plus the director's statement that explains the commitment
- [Slop Pipeline](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/assessments/slop-pipeline/): Design the automation that could produce one slop archetype at scale, and make the economic case for why anyone would bother running it
- [Slop Teardown](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/assessments/slop-teardown/): The one assessment in the course that asks you to explain a slop artefact instead of making one — a rigorous teardown of its tells, its economics, and who it is built to fool or flatter
- [Screenings](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each screening draws on.
- [Naming the genre](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-01/): Why "slop" is a genre term and not an insult, and what a semester of taking it seriously is supposed to produce
- [The anatomy of a tell](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-02/): Extending the deck's five tells with three more, and the mechanics of why each one is the specific shape it is
- [Prompting as direction](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-03/): 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
- [The economics of volume](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-04/): Why slop gets made — ad-tech incentives, content-farm economics, and the specific mechanism by which platforms reward volume over craft
- [Genre and pastiche](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-05/): 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
- [Four lenses, one argument](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-06/): A synthesis of weeks 1 through 5's vocabulary, and what each lens specifically contributes to a Slop Teardown
- [Systems thinking for slop](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-07/): Why the unit of analysis for slop is the pipeline that made it, not the clip that got shared
- [Scheduling and scale](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-08/): What changes about prompts, review and distribution once you're producing fifty of something a week instead of one
- [The business case for slop](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-09/): Turning weeks 7 and 8's pipeline mechanics into the cost-and-return argument the Slop Pipeline submission has to make
- [Sustained coherence](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-10/): Why keeping one visual language across linked pieces is harder than making any single piece look right, and what breaks first
- [The director's statement](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-11/): Authorial intent as a genre convention, the ethics of synthetic performers, and what a festival's disclosure rule actually asks a director to admit
- [Slop as a genre, restated](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/lectures/week-12/): 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
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/people/idris-fenn/): Tutor running the weekly Set labs. Edited reality television for a decade, then watched the diffusion models learn to do his job worse but faster, and found that professionally interesting.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/people/marisol-quaye/): Founding convenor of SLOP2758. Spent a film-studies career on melodrama before deciding degraded generative video needed the same seriousness and none of the prestige.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [The specimen shelf](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/01-getting-started/): First set — bringing in a real AI-generated video, sorting it by eye before you have the vocabulary to sort it properly
- [Tell annotation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/02-uncanny-tells/): Second set — turning the specimen shelf's rough, unlabelled stacks into timestamped tell-logs, using the vocabulary the screening just gave you
- [The shot list exercise](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/03-prompting-as-direction/): Third set — translating a one-paragraph scene into a structured prompt sequence, then checking what the model actually did with your blocking
- [The unit economics worksheet](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/04-economics-of-volume/): Fourth set — costing out two slop archetypes on the same terms, to find out which one is actually the better bet and why
- [The genre-fidelity exercise](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/05-genre-and-pastiche/): Fifth set — committing fully to one slop sub-genre's structural beats, then auditing your own draft against them
- [Teardown work session](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/06-teardown-work-session/): Supervised set time and structured peer critique for the Slop Teardown, due this week — no new production exercise
- [Map the pipeline](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/07-map-the-pipeline/): Turning the single artefact you tore down in week 6 into a diagram of the system that could produce five hundred more like it
- [Template and batch](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/08-template-and-batch/): Building one reusable prompt template with real slots, then running it as a batch instead of a one-off
- [Pipeline work session](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/09-pipeline-work-session/): Supervised set time to assemble the Slop Pipeline submission from the template, batching rule and schedule built in weeks 7 and 8
- [Build a story bible](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/10-story-bible/): Writing down the visual-language rules your capstone has to obey across every clip, then proving two clips actually obey them
- [Draft your director's statement](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/11-directors-statement/): Writing the statement that frames your capstone's process and intent, plus a disclosure line for a festival that requires one
- [Capstone work session](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-HarkiratS1511/sessions/12-capstone-work-session/): Supervised set time to finish Direct a Slop Feature and the director's statement drafted in week 11