BA Examination Timeline

Graduation year 2025 / 2026

This page is the timeline for the BA Examination process and is is subject to changes, please consult regularly.

Also see at the entries starting with "3BA" on the Animation Students Calendar.

Date	Info	Location
Mon 23. Feb - Fri 27. Feb	Voice Recording Speech Academy Get in touch with Thomas Gassman if you want to reserve a session.	U133
Mon 02. Mar, 09:00 - Mon 02. Mar, 14:30	Production Meeting 2: Orange light We will watch the current state of your animatic with lineproducing, sound and mentors to discuss the progress of your film. You will present your state of production and next steps & milestones.	140
Tue 17. Mar 11:00	Examination Criteria (practical work) Choose a a criteria from your project to be judged on in particular (for example set design, concept art, story, animation, character design, editing etc...)   Any changes in your subject after that must be discussed with Jürgen Haas!
Fri 20. Mar	Animatic Editing Session 3 last edit session with Dominik Gehring - if needed	ateliers
Fri 27. Mar	Greenlight for Foley Marwan and Thomas will give you the greenlight for the foley.  If needed, you will present your animatic to discuss your current state of the production.
Tue 31. Mar	Pre-Production Deadline At the latest by end of March you should be finished with your pre-production and move into production.
Tue 31. Mar 12:00	Animatic & Foley List Deadline Foley List & Animatic (via mail/swisstransfer.com: thomas.gassmann@hslu.ch, marc.fragstein@hslu.ch, etienne.kompis@hotmail.com), for Foley Artists preparation
Mon 13. Apr - Fri 24. Apr	Foley Recordings PICTURELOCK for Foleys 2 days before your recording session	U133
Wed 20. May	Postcard Deadline upload two differet motifs as a tiff-picture (min. 1900 x 1370 px) and your sponsor's logos to server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > Postcards    3mm will be cut off on each side! Optionally you can add a square picture as postage-stamp placeholder for the back.     We chose one motif from the proposals; for proposal deadline see email by Kat   Add the following information as an .rtf or .word file:  Film title, length in minutes, names of directors, e-mail addresses, sponsors. Important: your film title will be definite from now on! Postcard-designs must be greenlit by your mentors in advance, and by Jürgen
Tue 26. May 16:00	Poster Deadline The poster template is on the server > studierende > Vorlagen > Poster - add Logos of your major sponsors - poster-designs must be greenlit by your mentors in advance!   Upload to: server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > Poster  Direct any queries to Elena
Wed 27. May 09:00 - 17:00	Presentation Skills Workshop (Group 1) Workshop with Manuela Wenger designed to help you for your final presentation.     Each team will be together in the group. Kat will send you the groups ahead of time.	room 055
Thu 28. May 09:00 - 17:00	Presentation Skills Workshop (Group 2) Workshop with Manuela Wenger designed to help you for your final presentation.     Each team will be together in the group. Kat will send you the groups ahead of time.	room 055
Tue 02. Jun 11:00	Credits and English Subtitles Upload screenshots or  a .mov (under 100MB!) of your credits for inspection to the server _[year]_3BA_Projektordner/07_credits no later than 11:00 Final OK will be given by Jürgen and Kat
Thu 04. Jun 15:00	FINAL FILM & English Subtitles Deadline Late delivery implies the immediate disqualification from the BA-process. No FX possible! Upload the film to projects/_[year]_3BA_Projektordner/08_FINALFILM no later than 15:00 !!! This version will be shown at your BA presentation and at the Werkschau For complete list of requirements, see "Required Records" under: BA Examination > only finished films will be shown at the Premiere
Thu 11. Jun	Animated Logo Colours Deadline Choose 2 key colours of your film for the animated Animation Lucerne logo.  Send Kat 2 jpegs of the colours or the RGB colour code as well as your film format and Jürgen will create it for you.
Sun 14. Jun	Deadline Premiere Version We only can show finished films at the Premiere. If there are uncompleted parts in the film it will be shown at next year's Premiere.
Tue 16. Jun 13:30 - 14:30	Presentation File Deadline Presentation may NOT be changed after this point. projects -> _[year]_3BA_Projektordner -> 09_presentation file -> NameOfYourFilm The files will be uploaded to the presentation laptop. Please come and check that your presentations work (fonts, audio, video, etc.)   NO LATER THAN 14:30 !!!!
Tue 16. Jun 16:00	AniWiki Entry Deadline Complete your personal page and the film page on the AniWiki The promotion coordinator will not promote your film without a completed page. Please always use the latest templates to create the pages: > Template for Studentfilm > Template for Studentpage Website Stills deadline For your entry on the Animation-Lucerne website, we need 3 stills from your movie that create an important / beautiful / visually interesting / content relevant sequence. Resolution: at least 1920 by 1080 pixel. Upload to: server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > 13_Website Stills
Wed 17. Jun - Fri 19. Jun	FINAL PRESENTATIONS Each group presents in front of the Jury (see "Presentations" paragraph on the BA-Examination page).    In the afternoon of the third day your grades for the BA project and thesis will be announced in room 140	Kino REX
Mon 22. Jun 18:00 - 21:00	PREMIERE Premiere of all the BA and MA projects with an Apéro afterwards	Cinema MAXX
Tue 30. Jun	Return Corpus Give back your chest of drawers (Korpus) and lamps to ASI
Wed 01. Jul	Deadline Filmtrailer on Server 16:00 > Only films with trailers will be promoted > The trailer will be uploaded to our instagram and vimeo site  > Please create a link to our website as the producer of your film > Pay attention to correct use of HSLU logos   IMPORTANT: Do not upload your final film to any online platform without consulting the promotion coordinator first. You can upload you entire film after it has done its first round of important festivals (usually about a year).
Thu 02. Jul 09:00 - 17:00	Springboard Promo Day Promotion Day / Springboard to Reality Chantal Molleur and guests inform you of the further proceedings with your BA film. Topics will be: getting started in the professional world, how to work the festival run of your film & school support.
Sat 11. Jul 12:00	TShirt Design Deadline Email your t-shirt design (max 2 colors) to Jürgen