Important Dates:
Due Date: July 27th
QC: August 3rd and 4th
Screening: August 7th and 8th
Submission Requirements:
All students must deliver the following:
- An export file of their film in an uncompressed codec (We advise ProRes 422 or DNxHR) titled with the template of “Your Name_Film Title”
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A completed Submission Form
Please note that we can not accept compressed or inter-frame codecs such as H.264 or H.265.
After we have received your film, the post team will take your submission file and create a DCP for theatrical screening. For more on DCPs see here.
If we do not have your submission by the specified due date and time, you will not be guaranteed a DCP or QC.
How to Submit:
In-Person:
On the day of the submission deadline, editing suites will be set up on the 8th floor of the Ansin building where you can copy your submission file. See staff or a Post Manager for assistance. If any questions or concerns arise please see David Hadley (Ansin 802), the DPL Lab Assistants (Ansin 810), or one of the other post managers in Ansin.
In-person submissions are faster than online submissions if you are on the Boston campus.
Online:
If you plan to submit online, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have sufficient space on your Google Drive account prior to the deadline. Emerson College accounts are limited to 100 GB.
Upload your file to Google Drive and share it with both postproduction@emerson.edu and david.hadley@emerson.edu.
Please be aware that this upload could take a significant amount of time based on your file size and internet speed. We advise uploading the night before to ensure your upload is finished before the 10:00am deadline.
Additional Submission Information:
Captions
If your project features captions, please burn them into the video file you send to us.
Surround Audio
If your project features 5.1 surround sound audio interlace it with your video file. Alternatively, include the 6 mono files labeled according to their channel (L, Ls, C, R, Rs, LFE) along with your video file.
After Submitting Your Film: Quality Control (QC)
After submitting your film and filling out the required form, QCs will be scheduled during the weeks leading up to the screening. An exact schedule for the day will be shared once submissions close.
All films submitted by the deadline are guaranteed a QC in the Bright Family Screening Room. The purpose of this time is to watch your DCP in the screening space, set the master volume level, and ensure that the file plays through in its entirety without any issues. In the unlikely event that your file does not play properly due to an error on our part, we will encode a new DCP and schedule a make-up QC. Keep in mind that the QC is not a forum for evaluating creative decisions/small problems.
Important Resubmission Policy Information:
We can only accommodate new DCPs and make-up QCs for major technical issues. As such: re-submissions will only be considered if there are major technical issues and the initial QC revealed that the film is unfit for screening.
If you find in your QC that your film is unfit for screening, the post team will need a new copy of your file ASAP in order to make a new DCP and deliver it to the theater before a second QC. If you need to resubmit your film, email the post team immediately following your QC and fill out this form detailing the issue you encountered during your QC. Make-up QC time in the BFSR is limited so we will be in touch with your scheduled time following the resubmission.
Why Do We Need to Submit in Advance of the Screening? Can I Turn in My Film Late?
These dates were decided alongside SOF program directors and MTP, the organization managing the Bright Family Screening Room. We understand the deadline may seem early for your screening. The post team requires a few days in order to properly encode DCP files for all of the submissions. Our team has its own internal deadline to deliver these DCPs to the screening room so that they can be ingested on site during business hours prior to the QC, which also takes some time. In general, it is our policy to QC at least one week prior to thesis screenings in order to leave time for any problems. If a resubmission, we usually have about 48 hours to retrieve a new file from students (if necessary), encode a new DCP, deliver it to the Screening Room, and ingest the new file for a makeup QC.
We always collaborate with SOF to give students as much time as possible to finish their films before settling on these due dates. The timeline we created gives students as much time as we can allow while also taking into account the regularly scheduled classes, weekly screenings, and additional capstone & thesis screenings in the Bright Family Screening Room. Unfortunately, this does not leave us much room to budge with submission deadlines.
For submissions and more information, please contact the Post Production team: