Contextualizing Film

INQUIRY

• Students will: examine and research the evolution of film across space, time and culture

• Students will: explore a variety of film traditions, conventions and areas of film focus in order to formulate clearly defined topics for further study

• Students will: engage with multiple film texts from a variety of contrasting cultural contexts.

ACTION

• Students will: identify and research links between a variety of film texts, their contrasting cultural contexts and a variety of areas of film focus

• Students will: develop arguments and perspectives on specific areas of film focus, comparing and contrasting a variety of film texts, in order to further their own understandings.

REFLECTION

• Students will: reflect on their learning in this area, formulating a rationale for the arguments they have developed and comparisons they have made

• Students will: experience presenting work as a recorded multimedia comparative study and consider how best to present audio-visual material.