In this topic, students will:

• Engage with various film texts, seeking influence and inspiration in order to guide their own production work.
• Research a variety of film production roles and acquire an understanding of industry practices and essential skills required for a minimum of three roles.
• Examine their own personal interests and inspirations in order to identify filmmaker intentions.
• Acquire, develop and apply practical filmmaking skills and techniques, in a variety of forms and a minimum of three film production roles.
• Work both individually and collaboratively as creative risk-takers on a variety of filmmaking exercises and experiments in order to fulfill their filmmaker intentions.
• Collaborate to create at least one completed film, working in one discrete film production role.
• Reflect on their acquisition of skills and chart their learning in a variety of film production roles.
• Reflect on the successes and challenges of their exercises, experiments and completed films, evaluating the impact this work has had on them as a filmmaker and the extent to which their filmmaker intentions were fulfilled.
• Experience collating evidence of their explorations in a portfolio, presenting work in both visual and written forms.

In Topic 3, students are required to explore the following films:

• Vertigo (1958) and Goodfellas (1990).
• Previously screened film, studied in depth in class, that fulfills the three-act structure paradigm as articulated by screenwriting teacher Syd Field (b. 1935).
• Extracts from a variety of films that create an alternative reality through filmmaking techniques, such as La Jetée (1962) or Being John Malkovich (1999) or Doctor Who (1963).
• Excerpts from Hitchcock’s Rope (1948)
• Extracts from films from different decades containing significant sound design and foley work, such as The Conversation (1974), Blow-out (1981), Memento (2000) and Gravity (2013)
• Students watch extracts from films that employ the Soviet montage “Kuleshov” effect, such as Battleship Potemkin (1925)—the Odessa steps scene—and The Godfather (1972)—the baptism scene
• Short story or fairy tale.
• A short sequence of film that does not create any diegetic or non-diegetic sound
• Students reflect on and choose extracts from three short video experiments they have done as a focus for a blog.
• Films containing famous leitmotifs (theme sound), such as Star Wars (1977) and Jaws (1975). These are applied to a scene from Monsters, Inc. (2001).
• Election and Home for the Holidays from The Cutting Edge: Magic of Movie Editing (2004), which can be found online.