Weekly Build Log

One short entry a week — the film you watched, the subsystem you added, and what the film changed about the decision you made

Due

7 May 2027, 5pm

Weight

15% of the course

Set in

week 2

The brief#

Two hundred words a week. What you watched, what you added, and what the first forced the second to be.

The screenings in this course are compulsory, and this is the assessment that makes that a fact rather than a preference. An entry that describes the film is worth nothing. An entry that says the ejectives in Na’vi were the reason I tightened my syllable coda, because I could not get a stop cluster out of my mouth twice the same way is the entire exercise.

The connection does not have to be flattering to the film. Week nine exists precisely because a screening can be worth arguing with, and an entry that explains why you rejected what a film was doing counts exactly as much as one that adopts it.

Entries are short on purpose. This is the cheapest assessment in the course to keep on top of and the most expensive to reconstruct at the end of semester, because by then you will not remember which week you made a decision or what you had just watched when you made it.

What you submit#

Ten entries, one for each teaching week from week 2 to week 11, each posted before the Monday after the workshop it belongs to. Two hundred words is a guide, not a limit; anything under fifty is not an entry.

The log is submitted as a whole at the end of week eleven, but it is marked on what was posted weekly. Ten entries written on the same evening in May are detectable, and the second criterion is where they fail.