Making movies
Teacher Phil Coogan
| Year
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Level
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Duration
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| 9-10
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4-6
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3 weeks
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| Achievement objective being assessed
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Learning outcomes
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| Presenting
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Plan, storyboard and film a short original film which combines verbal and visual features to communicate ideas, information or narrative to an identified audience.
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| Processes
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| Thinking critically
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Identify and discuss ways that verbal and visual features are combined for a particular purpose and audience.
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| Supporting achievement objective
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Learning outcomes
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| Viewing
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Analyse how verbal and visual features of extracts from film and television are combined to achieve particular effects.
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| Interpersonal Speaking and Listening
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Work collaboratively in groups to plan, script and storyboard an original short film.
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| NCEA link
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| Assessment:
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Formative
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| Achievement Standard:
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AS90059 (English 1.8): Produce a media or dramatic presentation.
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Introduction
The aim of this unit is for students to produce an original short video after first studying the construction of other selected television texts.
Background reading
Student and teacher background reading can be found at:
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
The task is to produce a short film based upon one of the ideas provided (see learning task 1). The film will aim to combine verbal, visual and dramatic features to communicate information (eg. in a documentary), narrative (eg. in an adaptation of a story) or ideas (eg. in an adaptation of a poem) through video.
assessment (RTF 8KB)
English Exemplars Levels 1-5 for Presenting: Moving Images
Resources
Electronic
Other
- Video texts noted above.
- Handouts and guidelines supplied with this unit.
- Video camera, tripod, video tape.
Follow up
Students wishing to take their film-making a step further may find inspiration by watching Fat Man and Little Boys
, a student made video (from The Movie Industry: Behind the Scenes
) and reading the detailed log which traces the process of creation.
Students who create very high quality movies may be interested in having them broadcast over the Internet through Student Films
. Here they may also view other quality films made by students. They may also consider entering the films in the annual NAME
video competition.
