Sets

The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each set, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.

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Seven students crowded around a single open laptop on a lecture-hall desk, all looking intently at the screen

The specimen shelf

First set — bringing in a real AI-generated video, sorting it by eye before you have the vocabulary to sort it properly

Week 1 · 22 February 2027

A hand with red nail polish writes with a pen in a spiral notebook resting atop an open photo album showing a black-and-white photograph

Tell annotation

Second set — turning the specimen shelf's rough, unlabelled stacks into timestamped tell-logs, using the vocabulary the screening just gave you

Week 2 · 1 March 2027

Close-up of a woman's hands sketching notes onto a printed storyboard template, its "Storyboard / Camera" column headers visible

The shot list exercise

Third set — translating a one-paragraph scene into a structured prompt sequence, then checking what the model actually did with your blocking

Week 3 · 8 March 2027

A calculator sitting on top of printed financial charts and graphs on a desk, with a laptop and keyboard blurred in the background

The unit economics worksheet

Fourth set — costing out two slop archetypes on the same terms, to find out which one is actually the better bet and why

Week 4 · 15 March 2027

A scattered pile of printed photographs — fashion shots, a landscape, jewellery — spread across a woven rattan surface for comparison

The genre-fidelity exercise

Fifth set — committing fully to one slop sub-genre's structural beats, then auditing your own draft against them

Week 5 · 22 March 2027

Three people in business attire gesturing and talking animatedly around a small table with coffee cups

Teardown work session

Supervised set time and structured peer critique for the Slop Teardown, due this week — no new production exercise

Week 6 · 29 March 2027

A hand draws circled labels and connecting arrow lines with a marker on a glass whiteboard covered in diagram notes

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

Week 7 · 5 April 2027

A person viewed from behind, working at dual monitors showing a code editor with a file tree and source code open

Template and batch

Building one reusable prompt template with real slots, then running it as a batch instead of a one-off

Week 8 · 12 April 2027

Overhead view of three women at a table with laptops open, one writing on a sheet of paper

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

Week 9 · 19 April 2027

A fanned-out deck of Pantone colour swatch cards arranged in a spectrum from yellow through blue to red

Build a story bible

Writing down the visual-language rules your capstone has to obey across every clip, then proving two clips actually obey them

Week 10 · 26 April 2027

An open spiral notebook filled with handwritten reflective notes, a pen resting across the page, on a dark wooden desk

Draft your director's statement

Writing the statement that frames your capstone's process and intent, plus a disclosure line for a festival that requires one

Week 11 · 3 May 2027

Overhead view of five colleagues around a table covered in colour swatches, charts, coffee cups and a laptop, in a creative studio

Capstone work session

Supervised set time to finish Direct a Slop Feature and the director's statement drafted in week 11

Week 12 · 10 May 2027