Policies and support
The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
Extensions and late submission#
Ask before the deadline. A short extension for a specific, stated reason is usually granted; the same request made once the deadline has passed is an explanation, and gets assessed as one.
Work submitted late without an approved extension loses 10 percentage points of the marks available for that piece for every day it is late. Days are whole calendar days counted from the deadline, weekends and public holidays included, and any part of a day counts as a day. Ten days of that takes the whole piece, so work more than ten days late is recorded as zero rather than marked.
The arithmetic once, so nobody has to guess at it: a 3% exercise that would have scored 2.4 and arrives two days late loses 0.6 of the 3 marks available, and is recorded as 1.8. The deduction comes off the mark the work earned, not off the mark it might have earned on time.
Academic integrity, for a course built on generated footage#
Every frame produced for this course is assumed to be AI-generated by default. That is the premise the course starts from. What counts as misconduct here is what counts as misconduct anywhere: presenting someone else’s work as your own, or fabricating the evidence meant to prove what you did. On this rig, that means a production log describing a workflow you did not run, or a seed and parameter set that does not reproduce the shot it’s attached to, is the offense — not the fact that a model made the picture.
Likeness and portrait rights#
Do not use an identifiable, recognizable face of a real living person — yourself or anyone else — without that person’s informed consent, on this course or on any platform you might publish to afterward. This follows ordinary personality-rights and right-of-publicity law, and the synthetic-media policies most publishing platforms already enforce: generating a face does not exempt it from the rules that already apply to using one. Reference material you don’t hold clear rights to does not become usable because a generative model touched it.
Dailies etiquette#
Watch a take all the way through before saying anything about it. Half a screening produces a note about the half you watched. Feedback addresses the shot, the log, and the reference; the person who made it is out of scope. “This drifted from the reference” is a note. A remark about whoever ran the generation has no place in the room.
Equipment and compute#
Hardware in this course is whatever you bring; the school does not guarantee any student a specific card or a specific amount of VRAM. Where the school provides a shared render window on its own machines, bookings are first-come, and a booking you don’t show up for is released to the next person waiting, without appeal.
What on this site is invented and what is not: the colophon.