SM4140 Graduation Thesis (11-12)

Instructions effective November 2011

Coordinator for Graduation Thesis (GT) administration: Dr Kimburley Choi

Weight: 3 credits

 


"Graduation Thesis"

1. "Graduation Thesis" comprises of two parts: Final Year Project (FYP, 80%) and Research-theoretical text (20%). FYP is a self-initated and self-managed project of your study in CIL and SCM. It is a project to testify to your achievement and degree of excellence at the end of your BACM program. Research-theoretical text is a statement (about 4 - 6 pages) describing the motive, creative concept and a summary of what you have achieved. The grade of the FYP is primarily issued by your FYP adviser (especially about the process of research and making) and supplemented by an external examiner who would engage in your work in your FYP final oral presentation. 

2. To start your FYP, you need to work with an adviser ASAP. Please start seeking a potential advisor now. As CIL students, you are welcome to ask any academic staff-member in SCM to be your advisor, that is, your adviser does not need to be the regular CIL teachers – as long as you manage to acquire his/her consent.  Please note that we strongly advise you to stick to ONE adviser. If you have very specific reasons for getting two advisers, please write to Kim for approval.

3. The size of FYP should be a manageable one.

4. The Final Year Project is a research-based and process-oriented work.

5. We welcome students' free deployment of media. Although students need to choose FYP format from 8 categories (see below), this exercise is mainly used for equipment and resources planning, and to get you to start thinking about what your project covers. You are welcome to mix and match different aspects of the 8 categories as you find fit. The OBTL form will guide you through the key questions.

Schedule (some important deadlines):

  Date Class Deadlines Notes
Sem A week 1
11 Jan

Introduction: Basic mechanics of Graduation Thesis + Report on Equipment needs

 1. Submite FYP proposal (10%) with the following:
- title
- description (200 words)
- concept photo (except thesis, book & book-making)
- signature of adviser (due: 11 jan)

Please submit the signed hardcopy during class or to locker stated "SM4140" on 7F

2a. Fill in on-line equipment form:
(equipments from both production center & IT team)
https://webbook.scm.cityu.edu.hk/SCM5.html; &
2b. Submit the hard copy with advisers' endorsement to production center (due: 24 Feb)

 

 *FYP format:
1. Story based video & narrative games
2. Video essay / investigative video research / Experimental video
3. documentary / visual ethnography
4. video projection / video installation / photography
5. Installation (site-specific) / performance
6. Code-based programmed art / animation
7. Book & book-making
8. Web archive / Scholarly thesis
* You can choose one or more formats from above
Week 2 18 Jan

Guest lecture:
"Art making practices & research" by Jamsen Law

screening room 1 (M6050)

 

 

  
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Week 4

1 Feb

1930-2230

Guest Lecture: "Professionalism in setting up an installation event"

screening room 1 (M6050)

 

 
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Week 7

27 Feb

due: 3pm

 

Final draft exhibition (20%)

- Students should consider the final draft presentation as the trial exhibition of the finished work.

- If your work is video, game design, book, thesis, etc. that needs not to be exhibited in a space, please submit:
1. 2 copies of your final draft, and
2. 2 hard copies of your name, student number, work title and artist statement
3. Put them in an envelop and submit to "SM4140" locker on 7F.

- If your work is an installation, besides your work, pls show:
1. your name, student number, work title, and artist statement
Venue: M1080, 6F & 7F common area
*** pls be considerate when you use common area because it is shared by all and pls do not destroy the infrastructure of the building.

- Pls note that you do not need to give a presentation, and your work should express what you want to say.

- your supervisor and an internal examiner will examine and give comments to your work in your absence, and the comments will be sent back to you.

- If you get failed in your final draft exhibition, you have NO chance to participate in the final oral presentation, and you will get failed in your GT automatically.

If you would like to use venues other than M1080, pls
1. book venue by filling in the application form (see below) with adviser's signature;
2. inform Kim the venue you will be using

Quick link:

Form for booking 1F, 2F, 6F, 7F CMC classrooms and SCM labs to Garry

Form for booking 3F, 4F CMC classrooms to Peony (pls check availability of the room first)

Form for booking common areas in city u to Peony (not CMC)

Form for campus shooting to Peony

Exit Permit Form for loading/unloading big and heavy materials to/out of CMC (pls note that your supervisor or Garry needs to sign the form for approval)

 
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Week 10 21 Mar Writing "Research Theoretical Text" [ppt]
   
Week 11  

 

 


Week 12

10 Apr

due:
12 noon

  

On 10 April (Tue):

1. Submit 3 envelops, each containing:
a. 1 copy of the finished project with title and artist statement (students should submit documentation if your work is an installation);
b. 1 copy of the research-theoretical text to GO before 12:00 noon.
On the envelop cover, pls write down your name & student number.

2. Send a softcopy of your research text to cilscmgt@gmail.com on or before 4:00pm.

3. Fill in the FYP Archive system eform: https://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/fypentry

*** No late submission is allowed. All late submission will not be sent to advisors and external reviewers. Penalty of late submission grade is the deduction of a full grade from the final grade.

For the email:

Write down your adviser and your name in the email subject, for example if your advisor is Hector and your name is Chan Me Ling:

Subject: Hector, Chan Me Ling
Week 12


 

 Deadline: 12 April Book equipment (both production center & IT team) for FYP final oral presentation
[NOTE for computer equipment booking]
     
  4/30-5/4

Oral Presentation (Schedule)

Notes

    
  5/5-5/6

May Flower open studios

 

Assessment

The revised assessment scheme below is to communicate two principles:
(1) that the process (research, continuous progress and quality of consultation sections) is as important as the final work; and
(2) that the semester grade will be given by your adviser involved in each project.

- Proposal submission: 10% (week 1 of semester B)
- Final draft exhibition: 20% (Week 7)
- Research theoretical text: 20% (10% from supervisor & 10% from external reviewer) (10 April)
- Finished project + oral defense: 50% (25% from supervisor & 25% from external reviewer) (23-27 April)


*** To ensure fairness and uniformity, we would not accept any further personal submission of FYP between the deadline of submission and the Oral Defense. Late submission work would not be sent to advisors and external reviewers. If you have more things to say, please think of how to fully utilize the 10 minutes Oral presentation to present your work and ideas..
*** Penalty of late submission of FYP: the maximum penalty is the DEDUCTION OF A FULL GRADE from the final grade.
 
Postponement of Graduation Thesis