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Date Info Location
Mon 01. Sep

12:15 - 12:45

Pitch Prep

This session is voluntary! 
Learn the most important rules of presenting a project, discuss the design of your pitch poster and - most importantly - test your pitch!  

151
Tue 02. Sep

23:00 - 23:55

Pitch Poster Deadline

 upload to the Projects server by 23:59 to server > projects > _[year]_3BA_Projektordner > 01_Pitch > [year]_Pitch

Elena will organise the printing of the posters. Ask her if you have any questions.
There is a template with the Logos on the server: animation > studierende > Vorlagen

Poster Info:

  • Size: 700 x 1000 mm
  • Resolution: 300 dpi
  • convert your text to path
  • add a 3mm bleed
  • delete or hide the "proportions" layer
  • keep the space for the logos and don’t change them.
Tue 09. Sep

09:30 - 12:00

Pitch Presentation

Each pitch must be done in under 3 minutes. Pitches will be held in English. The posters will hang until the end of the selection process. 

If you can't be there in person, you can send Kat a video of you pitching, 3 min max, no editing allowed. No later than Monday 14:00.

145
Wed 10. Sep

09:55 - 10:00

Pitch Vote Deadline 10:00

Choose which 5 projects you like best, and 2 you could imagine working on, if your project doesn't get chosen. 

Fill in the online form you will receive from Kat.

Wed 10. Sep

14:30 - 15:15

Pitch Selection Results

The ranking of Pitches is presented and suggestions made as to how to form groups.

145
Thu 11. Sep

10:00 - 12:00

Pitch Selection Discussion

In the morning you can meet with Jürgen to help form groups or receive further feedback on the results of the Pitch Selection.
 
First come, first served. About 15 minutes per project.

140
Mon 15. Sep - Sat 04. Oct Project Development

Your project's content will be honed with Maja Gehrig and Špela Čadez

140
Mon 15. Sep

18:00 - 23:00

ALL Kükenfest
Mon 22. Sep

11:00 - 11:00

Name your Project Mentor

Contact and get a "yes" from your mentor of choice. You can choose from our list of lecturers or someone from outside school if there is a solid reason for your need.
 
Email Kat no later than 11:00.

Fri 03. Oct - Sat 04. Oct Project Development Presentations REX
Mon 06. Oct

13:00 - 17:00

Written Thesis Kick-Off

You will receive information from Tina Ohnmacht and Stefanie Bräuer about your upcoming thesis.

Write down 2-3 potential topics and your preferred mentor on the etherpad „Topics for the BA Thesis“ in ILIAS

151
Thu 09. Oct

09:00 - 17:00

Written Thesis Mentoring

Room and further information as per Tina and Stefanie 

Fri 10. Oct

09:00 - 12:30

Written Thesis Mentoring

Room and further information as per Tina and Stefanie

Thu 30. Oct

12:00 - 12:00

Written Thesis Final Topic Deadline

Hand in final topic, research question, hypothesis, bibliography on ILIAS by noon

Tue 11. Nov

13:00 - 14:30

Lineproducing Kick-Off

Lineproducer Marwan Abdalla Eissa will introduce the production process. After his talk he will stay in order to answer questions. From then on he will talk to teams individually on a bi-weekly basis.  

REX
Thu 20. Nov

12:00 - 12:00

Thesis Exposé Deadline

Upload your exposé to ILIAS as a PDF with the following naming convention: year_yourname_titleofwork_Exposé (i.e. [year]_SaraSmith_WordsandImages_Exposé)

Exposés will be graded

None
Fri 21. Nov

15:55 - 16:00

Dossier Fact Sheet Deadline

email to Gerd and Sereina by 14:00

Mon 24. Nov - Sat 13. Dec Dossier Module

You will develop a written dossier and a storyboard to apply for funding with Gerd Gockell and Sereina Gabathuler

Thu 27. Nov

09:00 - 17:00

Production Meeting 1

short presentation by each team (7min max): how has the project developed? You can present: script, storyboard, style frames, animatic, animation tests (definitely needed from the experimental projects)  

REX
Fri 12. Dec

12:00 - 12:00

Thesis First Draft

Upload the first draft of your thesis (first chapter) on ILIAS as PDF named year_yourname_titleofwork_Draft  
(i.e. 2025_WillShakespeare_Wordswordswords_Draft)

Tue 16. Dec - Fri 19. Dec Animatic Editing Session 1

90min per group session with Dominik Gehring to discuss and evaluate the state of your project's current animatic  
 
according to the schedule on gdrive

Alteliers
Tue 06. Jan

16:00 - 16:00

Animatic Upload to Server

Upload your animatic as mp4 converted down to under 250MB! to the same folder as your Dossier PDF _[year]_3BA_Projektordner -> 02_Dossier -> [year]_FINAL 
 
Naming convention:
 year_projectname_animaticV1 (i.e. [year]_BestFilmEver_animaticV1)

Wed 07. Jan

09:00 - 12:00

MA Pitch ZHdK

ZHdK film-music composing students will visit us and receive a short presentation of your films after which you can network. Prepare a Vimeo/youtube upload off your Animatic as well as a fact sheet as learned in 2nd BA. The pitch is also for the speech-academy students, so do also include info about voice requirements in the Factsheet.

Rex
Thu 08. Jan

13:55 - 14:00

Dossier Deadline (digital)

upload to server by 14:00  

Upload your PDF named year_projectname_Dossier (i.e. [year]_BestFilmEver_Dossier) to server: projects -> _[year]_3BA_Projektordner/02_Dossier/[year]_FINAL

Mon 12. Jan - Wed 14. Jan Animatic Feedback

We will watch your animatics and give you feedback  Portfolio & Experimental: you will be asked to give us a short status quo on the 14th

Thu 15. Jan

11:55 - 12:00

Printed Dossier Deadline

place one copy of your printed dossier on Kat's desk by 12:00

Fri 30. Jan

11:55 - 12:00

Written Thesis Deadline

Late delivery implies the immediate disqualification from the BA-process. No FX possible!
Upload your final thesis as PDF onto ILIAS
year_yourname_titleofwork_BAThesis (i.e.[year]_TildaSwinton_WordsandImages_BAThesis)
AND put 1 printed copy on Kat‘s desk in office 157 (in case the office is closed, leave them in the letterbox in front of the office) by 12:00

None
Mon 02. Feb

16:00 - 17:00

Sounddesign concept and Animatic Deadline

send a current animatic (.mp4, less than 100MB) with your music layout and a description of your sound design concept to Thomas Gassmann, Jeroen Visser and Etienne Kompis

Wed 04. Feb - Sat 07. Feb Sound Design talks

First round of talks with our school sounddesigners Jeroen Visser / Etienne Kompis and Thomas Gassmann. Each group will have a one hour meeting. Invitation via doodle in January. Sequence of short meetings will be announced by Thomas Gassmann

U133/ Zoom
Thu 05. Feb - Sat 07. Feb Acting Reference Shots

Two guest actors will work with you on key shots of your film, each group has 45 minutes

Tue 17. Feb - Wed 18. Feb Animatic Editing Session 2

a second session with Dominik Gehring to discuss and evaluate the state of your project's current edit.

ateliers
Thu 19. Feb

17:30 - 20:00

ALL Helpers Market

with Apero
 
get extra crew on board by holding a presentation of your 3BA final project for your fellow Ani students and alumn* where you can tell them what you're looking for 

TBA
Mon 23. Feb, 09:00 - Fri 27. Feb, 16:15 Voice Recording Speech Academy

Get in touch with Thomas Gassman if you want to reserve a session.

U133
Mon 02. Mar, 10:00 - Tue 03. Mar, 16:00 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 - 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!

Thu 19. Mar - Fri 20. Mar Animatic Editing Session 3

last edit session with Dominik Gehring - if needed

ateliers
Fri 27. Mar - Sat 28. 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 - Wed 01. Apr 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

11:55 - 12:00

Animatic & Foley List Deadline

Foley List & Animatic (via mail/wetransfer.com: thomas.gassmann@hslu.ch, jeroen.visser@hslu.ch, etienne.kompis@hotmail.com), for Foley Artists preparation

Mon 13. Apr, 09:00 - Fri 17. Apr, 17:00 Foley Recordings

PICTURELOCK for Foleys 2 days before your recording session

U133
Mon 20. Apr, 09:00 - Fri 24. Apr, 17:00 Foley Recordings

PICTURELOCK for Foleys 2 days before your recording session

U133
Wed 20. May - Thu 21. 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 - 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

Tue 02. Jun

10:55 - 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

14:55 - 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 

None
Thu 11. Jun - Fri 12. 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 - Mon 15. 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 - Wed 17. Jun 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  

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 !!!!

Wed 17. Jun - Sat 20. 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 - Wed 01. Jul Return Corpus

Give back your chest of drawers (Korpus) and lamps to ASI

Wed 01. Jul - Thu 02. 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 - 12:00

TShirt Design Deadline

Email your t-shirt design (max 2 colors) to Jürgen