# Week 15 — Tuesday, December 1 ### Consultation · Final polish · Full portfolio review --- ## Focus Last working week. Final notes on Project 3, and a full review of the portfolio with the semester's work integrated. --- ## Due today — before 9:00 AM **Revised draft** addressing the Week 14 ranked notes. **Weekly progress report** — including a line on each Week 14 note and what you did about it. --- ## Bring to class - The revised draft - **Your online portfolio, updated** with whatever from this semester belongs in it - Your Week 3 portfolio review and gap statement - Breakdown captures, assembled --- ## In class **Final critique on Project 3.** Last round of notes before delivery. Ranked tightly — one week remains and part of it is presentation prep. **Delivery and export instruction.** Render settings, codecs, resolution, color, packaging, naming. Getting this wrong at the last step undermines five weeks of work, and it happens every semester somewhere. **Full portfolio review.** We go through your portfolio start to finish, in order, at full size: - Does Project 3 belong, and where in the order? - Does Project 1 belong? If so, is it labeled correctly as a study with the original creator credited? - Does the Project 2 tutorial have a place — a writing or process section? - What comes out to make room? - Reread the Week 3 gap statement: is that gap closed? **Presentation preparation.** Week 16 is a two-minute walkthrough plus a full-semester portfolio review. We talk through structure and you practice the opening. **Supervised production.** --- ## Before next week 1. **Finish and export.** Final render due Tuesday, December 8. 2. **Add the finished piece to your online portfolio**, with breakdown material. 3. **Assemble process documentation** — 8–12 images or clips. 4. **Write the reflection** — 750–1,000 words. Be honest about whether the gap is fully closed. 5. **Prepare and rehearse the presentation.** Two minutes. Out loud. Timed. 6. **Have everything loaded before 9:00** next Tuesday. --- ## Note — attribution on Project 1 Worth repeating as pieces go into portfolios: your Project 1 recreation is labeled as a **study**, with the original creator named, wherever it appears. *"Title sequence study — original by Imaginary Forces"* is a line that costs you nothing and demonstrates professional judgment. Its absence is the kind of thing that costs people offers. --- ## Note — the last week is for finishing Not for new content. For finishing. The distance between *done* and *finished* is almost entirely in the final 10%: clean render, resolved edges, one more look at the timing, correct file naming, right resolution and codec, deliberate thumbnail, written description, correct credits. That is what next week's grade is actually measuring, and it is the difference a recruiter registers in the first ten seconds without ever consciously identifying it.