This is a research-based, process-oriented and production-based course. It is a self-initiated and self-managed final year graduation project (FYP) of the student’s study in SCM BScCM programme. The objective and scope of the course include:

• Develop student’s capability to apply knowledge and skills learnt through preceding coursework, experience and other concurrent courses, and to synthesize and communicate ideas in the form of substantial pre-production, prototyping and production of a creative media project, either individually or as a member of a team, in a chosen area of creative media or digital entertainment.
• Enable the students to exercise good management methods in the planning, researching, designing, feasibility studying, developing, prototyping, production, documentation and monitoring of progress.
• Provide the students with a platform to demonstrate their ability to integrate computing and creative knowledge they have acquired in other preceding and concurrent courses of study and the application of good team building, management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Train the students to prepare proposals, analyse needs, perform research, design, perform experiment and feasibility study, implement feasible solutions, and deliver their projects on time and on target.
• Make the students better understand the creative process, and the needs and means to balance creative flexibilities and developmental disciplines.
• Train the students to be proficient and effective in communicating their works to others including potential clients.

The students are required to attend the regular workshops and to work under the supervision of their advisors in this course. The students are required to declare their proposal & project plan; present their research & development outcomes; report their process to advisors during regular tutorials; conduct pre‐production, prototyping, production and post-production of the project; Writing interim and final reports; Besides, the students will also be asked to attend the mandatory “Industry Nights” seminars, where they meet guest speakers from games, animation, interactivity, installation, new media and e-Marketing industries, attend talks on industrial practices and job opportunities, receive the advice on teaching and learning from guest speakers.

Implementation:

BScCM has separated the final year graduation project (FYP) into two phases - Phase I (semester A): Pre-Production & Prototype and Phase II (semester B): Production. The same pair of SCM and CS advisors will co-supervise the student over a cohort. Before the summer term, students are required to select and consult with their desired FYP supervisors, and start performing their ideation, research, analyse, development, proposal writing and project planning throughout the summer. Those outcomes will need to be injected into the Phase I: Pre-Production and Prototype and Phase II: Production;

• Phase I (semester A): Pre-Production and Prototype:
  This phase focuses on insight & idea generation, concept & design development, research & analyse, feasibility studies, usability studies, prototyping, mock up making, experiment, problem solving, pre-production, pre-visualization, assets preparation & management, team building, interpersonal communication, documentation, demonstration and presentation & critique.
• Phase II (semester B): : Production:
  This phase is the production phase based on the outcomes from the phase I. It focuses on project management, interpersonal communication, workflow management, production, assets preparation & management, testing, de-bug, problem solving, optimisation & fine-tuning, post-production, documentation, demonstration, infographics, presentation & critique.