Collaboratively Producing Film (HL only)

INQUIRY

• HL students will: reflect on their experiences of watching films and consider how exposure to films and filmmakers might guide and influence their own work, enabling them to set clear intentions for filmmaking

• HL students will: consider how film elements, areas of film focus, film production roles and cultural contexts they have explored in the film course can inform and shape their own filmmaking practices

• HL students will: form core production teams to collaboratively create plans for making at least one original completed film, identifying the roles, responsibilities, skills and techniques required and formulating intentions for the completed films.

ACTION

• HL students will: engage in the pre-production, production and post-production phases, working as part of a core production team to create at least one completed film

• HL students will: make creative choices in film production roles and collaborate in a variety of other activities to support the cooperative realization of at least one completed film

• HL students will: document their pre-production, production and post-production experiences.

REFLECTION

• HL students will: evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their own individual work in film production roles

• HL students will: reflect on their collaborations as part of a core production team, evaluating the successes and challenges of the process and the extent to which at least one completed film fulfilled stated intentions

• HL students will: experience presenting work in both audio-visual and written forms.