Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Brennecke - a.brennecke@filmuniversitaet.de
Prof. Dr. Lena Gieseke - l.gieseke@filmuniversitaet.de
Alex Walmsley - a.walmsley@filmuniversitaet.de
Unless otherwise discussed with your advisor, you are meeting with your advisor every two weeks to talk about your project in detail. It is your responsibility to get in touch and to make appointments.
You can use the time slot scheduled for CTech Lab I to work on your project and meet your advisor.
- Bi-weekly talks with your mentor, Tuesdays between 14-17:00
- Project week: 06.-10.01.25, room 6119
- Project presentation: 08.01.25, 13-18:00, room 6119
- Project plan submission: 15.01.25, 23:59, Berlin time
- Project submission: 15.03.24, 23:59, Berlin time
- Final presentation: Beginning of April 2025
The official working period for the first term project is 06.01.-15.03.25.
If you are sick within the official work period, you can get a deadline extension based on a doctor’s note (“Attest”). For that, you have to submit the Attest within the first three days of your sickness. We are not allowed to accept later than three days or any Attests in retrospect.
On Jan. 8, you have to present your project and your planning. Your presentation must be < 20 min. After the presentation there will be some time for discussion.
Deadline: 15.01.25, 23:59
The project plan must include:
- Motivation (Why?)
- Personal motivation
- Also, contextual information such as related work
- Project Details (What & how?)
- Description
- Minimum of 1500 characters
- Be as detailed as you can at this point
- Add as many images and videos or references as you like
- Categorization
- Explain which of the following categories are you planning to be part of your project and how so:
- Creative / artistic development
- Narrative development
- Audio-visual design
- Software development
- Hardware and pipeline development
- Algorithms
- Research / Experimentation
- Explain which of the following categories are you planning to be part of your project and how so:
- System diagram / Technical Setup / Tech Stack
- With which tech components are you working, and how are they connected?
- Unique selling point
- What makes the project special to you?
- E.g., are you addressing gaps in the literature or contemporary design challenges or current debates in the arts or society etc.?
- Description
- Expected Results
- Baseline solution
- What is the smallest achievement you want to reach?
- Best possible solution
- What would you like to achieve if everything goes according to plan?
- Baseline solution
- Vision and Future Work
- What is your vision for the project beyond what you can achieve within the first term project requirements and time?
- Challenge of your comfort zone
- What is new for you and what do you want to learn?
- What do you expect to be the most difficult for you?
- Work plan
- Timeline until the deadline
- Work packages
- Milestones
Upload your project plan to this folder in a folder of your last name with the filename projectplan_lastname.md. You can also submit a document with a link to your personal repo.
For planning your project, take the evaluation criteria into consideration, e.g. we also evaluate your learning curve and experimental results.
Deadline: 15.03.25, 23:59
The final project submission must include:
- Result presentation
- A link to a polished website with your results
- The webpage can be simple, e.g., it can be a GitHub page
- Your results must be fully understandable based on this page (e.g. to someone who knows nothing about your project)
- You are free to design this page, it can also include a trailer, but you must cover the following points:
- Title
- Description of the content and its technical implementation
- Context, related work
- Your results
- Discussion of your results
- Next steps, future work
- Project documentation
- You can refer to any content of part 1, you do not have to repeat yourself
- Your work diary with temporary results and failure cases
- Explain which of the following categories are part of your results and how so:
- Creative / artistic development
- Narrative development
- Audio-visual design
- Software development
- Hardware and pipeline development
- Algorithms
- Research / Experimentation
- Reflection of technical choices
- Why did you make the choice you made?
- What worked well, what didn't?
- What would you do differently next time?
- Reflection on your Minimal viable product and Best-case scenario plans
- What did you archive, what not and why?
- Challenge of your comfort zone
- What was new for you, and what did you learn?
- What was the most difficult for you?
- Reflection on your original work plan with timeline
- To you follow your plan and if not, why not?
- Source files
- All source and project files, needed to re-create the project
- Files can either be uploaded to this folder or you can provide a link to a different repo or online repository.
- We will check your source files and project structure carefully. However, in most cases we will not attempt to build the project ourselves.
In April, everybody must present their results and project documentation. The presentation must be <= 20 min. There mustn't be any major changes to what was submitted in March. After each presentation, there will be time for questions and a discussion.
After the presentation, you must also submit the presentation slides and all used materials.
The grade is based on
- the submitted project plan
- the submitted project results and documentation
- the presentation
Please keep in mind that you should document your learning path and the execution of a plan continuously throughout the project. The documentation needs to cover the whole term, starting in November.
If you complete all other requirements but the final project submission, you can submit the project at a later time, but 15% of the final grade will be reduced. If you do not want a grade reduction for lateness or if you want to change the topic of your project one more time, you will need to re-do all steps for the 1st term project in the following year.
The result quality is graded mainly but not exclusively based on (also, only if applicable) the following criteria:
- Conceptual mastery and idea
- Clarity and cohesiveness
- Technical soundness / stability
- Audio-visual design
- Creative-artistic depth
- Contextual integration
- Uniqueness
- Completeness
The project reflection is graded mainly but not exclusively based on (also, only if applicable) the following criteria:
- Planning and process
- Concept
- Technical implementation
- Results
- Learning and challenge of one comfort zone
The website and the oral presentation are graded mainly but not exclusively based on (also, only if applicable) the following criteria:
- Overall appeal
- Completeness
- Clarity and cohesiveness