Aims & Objectives

Course Aims

• Explore the diversity of the arts across time, cultures and contexts

• Develop as imaginative and skilled creators and collaborators

• Express ideas creatively and with competence in forms appropriate to the artistic discipline

• Critically reflect on the process of creating and experiencing the arts

• Develop as informed, perceptive and analytical practitioners

• Enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts

• Explore the various contexts of film and make links to, and between, films, filmmakers and filmmaking techniques (inquiry)

• Acquire and apply skills as discerning interpreters of film and as creators of film, working both individually and collaboratively (action)

• Develop evaluative and critical perspectives on their own film work and the work of others (reflection)

Assessment Objectives

1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of specified contexts and processes.

• a. Identify the film elements associated with conveying meaning in a variety of film texts.

• b. Formulate personal intentions for work, which arise from both research and artistic endeavour.

• c. Identify informative moments and examples from their own filmmaking work to support analysis.

• d. Present ideas, discoveries and learning that arise from both research and practical engagement with films, filmmakers and techniques.

2. Demonstrate application and analysis of knowledge and understanding.

• a. Analyse film from various cultural contexts and explain links between areas of film focus and film elements employed by filmmakers.

• b. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of films, filmmakers and their various cultural contexts in order to influence, inform and impact the creation of film work.

• c. Explore and experiment with a variety of film-production roles in order to understand the associated skills, techniques and processes employed by filmmakers.

3. Demonstrate synthesis and evaluation.

• a. Critically interpret various sources of information in order to support analysis.

• b. Compare and contrast filmmakers, their films and their various cultural contexts in order to further understanding of particular areas of film focus.

• c. Evaluate films created by themselves and others and articulate an informed personal response using appropriate cinematic language and vocabulary.

• d. Reflect on the process of collaboration and on the successes and challenges encountered as a member of a core production team.

4. Select, use and apply a variety of appropriate skills and techniques.

• a. Make appropriate choices in the selection of words, images, sounds and techniques when assembling their own work for presentation.

• b. Experiment in a variety of film-production roles in order to produce film work that conveys meaning on screen.

• c. Collaborate effectively with others in the creation of film work.