Reading Film

INQUIRY

• Students will: explore a variety of film texts (including narrative, documentaries, television shows and shorts) that originate from various cultural contexts, gaining an understanding of how film elements combine to create meaning

• Students will: research and respond to a variety of film texts, using both primary and secondary sources, identifying how the film texts are constructed and the ways in which choices in film elements create meaning

• Students will: acquire and develop technical and critical film terminology to support their analysis.

ACTION

• Students will: experience discussing film sequences and film texts through a variety of key film concepts

• Students will: document their own interpretations of how meaning is constructed through film elements in film sequences and how these relate to the entire film texts from which they belong

• Students will: analyse and deconstruct a variety of film sequences and film texts, showing an awareness of the cultural contexts from which the film texts originate.

REFLECTION

• Students will: consider and link film elements and cultural contexts within film texts they have studied, as well as to other films they have experienced

• Students will: reflect on their analysis of film elements and film texts in both formal and informal presentations

• Students will: experience presenting work as a written textual analysis.