Teaching Moving Image Arts
Structuring your AS Year
How you structure your AS Year, like much of the guidance given here, is dependent on your own personal teaching circumstance (discipline issues, equipment, skills levels, subject knowledge, etc.)
I offer here a general outline of a sensible structure for your teaching year but you will make your own decisions about the detail. For example, whether the creative filmmaking exercises you choose will be homework based, group class activities or used for individual guidance.
Term |
Activity / Focus |
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Term 1 |
Introduction to Film-making Without an introductory film exercise such as the ‘concentration’ one detailed on this site, film language topics such as camera framing and movement will make little sense so always get your students filming and editing in the first two weeks. |
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Study of Film Language Topics (See elements of film language) |
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Term 1 |
Clip Analysis
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Creative Exercises |
Term 2 |
Ideas Development |
Show & Discuss Past Student work and Professional Short Films |
Term 2 |
Production (Film Exercise and Final Product)
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Clip Analysis (Exam Preparation)
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Term 3 |
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