The Four Week Feedback Rule

What is the "Four Week Rule"? The Four Week Rule is the rule at Escape Studios that students should not wait for more than four weeks for formal feedback on their assessed work.

At the end of each module, our undergraduate and graduate students will submit their portfolio and (where applicable) written work.  Within four weeks of submission, they will receive marking grids with their grade, including comments and suggestions on how to improve the work.  

How Industry Marking Works at Escape Studios

How does industry marking work at Escape Studios?

Our second year animation and VFX students recently put the finishing touches to their group projects, and all the short films have been finalled and submitted for marking.

The next stage was to get industry feedback. How well did they do? Did their work live up to industry standards?  What could they do better next time?  We welcomed Escapee and Cloth Cat animator Kevin Richards to take a look at the student work and offer a perspective from industry.

Alan Lewis External Examiner BA/MArt 3D Animation

Alan Lewis

Meet Alan Lewis, our new External Examiner for our integrated BA/Mart in 3D animation at Escape Studios.  External examiners play an important part of quality control in UK higher education, ensuring that our courses meet the highest standards, and the grades awarded are correct and appropriate.

We're honoured to have Alan onboard; he is Head of the Division of Creative Technologies for the School of Arts and Creative Industries at South Bank University. In this role, he is responsible for the overall operation and development of the VFX, Games, Digital Design, Sound, and Journalism BA/BSc degrees. He is also the Course Director for the VFX programme at South Bank.

How Escape Studios Mark Group Projects

How do we mark Group Projects at Escape Studios?

Group work, also called Studio Projects, are marked according a formula which aims to take into account the judgment of tutors, industry, and our students themselves.

Look at the table on the left; you will see that 75% of the grade is awarded for the final project, and 25% of the grade goes for the final Retrospective, a written summary of the students' personal contribution to the group project.