# Week 5 — Tuesday, September 22 ### Consultation · Polish pass · Delivery preparation --- ## Focus Last working week on Project 1. Refinement, technical cleanup, and getting the delivery right — because a well-built piece exported badly is a badly delivered piece. --- ## Due today — before 9:00 AM **Revised draft** addressing last week's ranked notes. **Weekly progress report** — including a specific line on what you did about each Week 4 note. --- ## Bring to class - The revised draft - The source - Your Week 4 notes, annotated with what you changed - Two candidate techniques for Project 2 --- ## In class **Revision critique.** Did the ranked notes get addressed? Where a note was rejected, we talk about the reasoning — rejecting a note with a good argument is legitimate and worth practicing. **Polish priorities.** What gets attention in the final week and what is deliberately left alone. There is always more that could be improved; the professional skill is deciding what actually moves the result. **Delivery and export instruction.** Render settings, codecs, resolution, color management, packaging, naming. Track-specific and genuinely important — a surprising amount of student work is undermined at this stage. **Project 2 preview.** Bring your two candidate techniques. We discuss which has enough substance for a tutorial and which is too thin or too large. **Postmortem prep.** What the Week 6 write-up asks for, so you can take notes as you finish rather than reconstructing afterward. **Supervised production.** --- ## Before next week 1. **Finish and export.** Final render due next Tuesday. 2. **Assemble the side-by-side** comparison at final quality. 3. **Pull 6–10 process images or clips** from your log showing the progression. 4. **Write the postmortem** — 500–750 words. Include which technique you are taking into Project 2 and why. 5. **Prepare a short presentation.** You will present in Week 6. Have it loaded and ready before class starts. --- ## Note — knowing when to stop You will not finish this piece. You will stop working on it, which is a different thing, and learning to tell the difference is part of the job. Every professional piece ships with known problems in it. The relevant question at this stage is not "is it perfect" but "have I spent my remaining hours on the highest-value fixes." A 5% improvement to the most visible element beats a 40% improvement to something nobody looks at. Rank what is left. Do the top of the list. Ship it.