Media Arts: Film (Elective)

“For the Christian, God is the supremen artis. God looked at His creation as it progressed and swa that it was good; when he had completed it, He said it was ‘very good’. The Great Artist was evidently much pleased with His World” Clide S Kilby

Overview

This unit aims to further introduce students to filmmaking and to begin to explore the more advanced modes of the camera. Students will understand the scope and nature of amateur filmmaking and will be able to select appropriate equipment to use, depending upon the settings required. They will explore various elements of composition including shot size, camera angles and camera movement, integrating their existing camera knowledge to further enhance their production skills. Students will create video productions and complete several filmmaking exercises using film production techniques with an emphasis on continuity editing. They will analyse the use of production techniques in professional media texts and will develop an understanding of how media texts are created in a variety of genres, styles, traditions and cultures.

Aims

To understand and use appropriate arts language related to media productions
To produce photographic works which convey appropriate ideas and values
To understand and follow the correct safety procedures for using digital video equipment
To create different media products for specific audiences and briefs
To compare, analyse, evaluate, and interpret the content, meaning and qualities in media works created in different social, cultural and historical contexts
To produce a media product from pre-production through to post-production and distribution
To develop an ability to discuss their own and others’ use of media elements, principles and/or conventions, skills, techniques, processes, equipment and technologies

Topics Include

Video Production
Recording Sound and Dialogue
Cameral Movement, Angles and Shot Types
Film, Character and Genre Analysis

Time Allocation

5 periods per cycle
Media Arts: Film is only offered in one Semester. The complementary unit, Media Arts: Photography is offered in the subsequent Semester.

Requirements

Minimum 8GB SD Card
Levy Cost

Assessment

Final video productions
Film analysis activities
Reflection of learning tasks

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11