Assignments and the Project are not marked according to a losing-part-marks scheme, but are marked according to the results produced, much like an English essay: if an assignment asks for an essay on Shakespeare, it makes no sense to ask "Why did I not get 100%: I did, after all, produce an essay on Shakespeare as required."

Instead, on these assignments, many students produce greatly different solutions than other students: thus it's not a question of a GUI being worth so much, functionality being worth so much, efficiency being worth so much, etc. If a student likes music, then it could be that a project that goes deeply into music is produced. And that should be rewarded, even though such deep consideration of music is not "required". Assignments and Projects are not marked on the basis of "losing" marks, but start at zero and are rewarded for what is produced.

Music, graphics, programming, the GUI, synchronization, etc. etc. -- Aspects of multimedia should be rewarded according to the overarching considerations of creativity, relevance to multimedia, interactivity, and effort.