They just have to creative with it. A series of well shot pictures with good lighting set to a decent score similar to a static image version of the timelapse scene in "UP". They're doing a media/film-making course right? Your success doesn't depend on how brilliant your film actually is, it's how good you can bullshit a deep and thoughtful explanation for your choices to make people think your film is brilliant. Also they're probably going to be graded on pre-production, editing, and audio as well, so as long as they didn't mess that up they're covered.