Film Production Assessment

ChecklistIs your Film Portfolio complete?

Go through this checklist to ensure that your Film Reel and Portfolio pages meet all the requirements for

submission.

Dianne St Clair

Film Reel

Portfolio Pages

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Dianne St Clair

Film Portfolio Assessment

Did you refer to the template and instructions provided as a guide for your reel and Portfolio pages?

Are you engaged, viewing course content, Live Lessons, announcements, emails, IB film guide, and reviewing your feedback?

Dianne St Clair

Film Portfolio Assessment Do you have a 9 minute film reel and 9 portfolio pages?

Is your document size A4 or US letter?

Is your font 12 pt. sans serif (Arial)?

Is your name EXCLUDED on your portfolio pages and all film clips? This ensures anonymity in the marking process.

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Total film reel will be 9:30 minutes and total Portfolio pages (cover page, table of contents and works cited) will be 12.

Portfolio Pages • Cover page 1. Table of Contents 2. Film Production Role 1 page 1 3. Film Production Role 1 page 2 4. Film Production Role 1 page 3 5. Film Production Role 2 page 1 6. Film Production Role 2 page 2 7. Film Production Role 2 page 3 8. Film Production Role 3 page 1 9. Film Production Role 3 page 2 10. Film Production Role 3 page 3 11. Works cited

Have you included all of the pages as shown?

The cover page, table of contents and works cited pages are not counted

towards the 9 Portfolio Pages

Portfolio Pages• Cover page 1. Table of Contents 2. Film Production Role 1 page 1 3. Film Production Role 1 page 2 4. Film Production Role 1 page 3 5. Film Production Role 2 page 1 6. Film Production Role 2 page 2 7. Film Production Role 2 page 3 8. Film Production Role 3 page 1 9. Film Production Role 3 page 2 10. Film Production Role 3 page 3 11. Works cited

1-6 clips

1-6 clips

3 minute film

Portfolio Pages

• Film Production Reel/Pages • IB Film Standard Level • Cohort (testing session) • Personal code (SBC will give

you, not IB number) • Nine minute reel URL

Does your cover page include:

Portfolio PagesIs your Table of Contents formatted properly?

Portfolio Pages

• Page numbers • Film Production roles 1, 2

and 3 - each role has • Clip number • Clip title • Clip duration

• Works cited

Does your Table of Contents include:

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Portfolio Pages

Are there 3 portfolio pages for each production role?

Do you include relevant visual evidence to support your comments?

Are your visuals labeled and placed where they can be easily linked (see fig. 1) to the written documentation?

Fig. 1. Storyboard, scene 3 of The Riddle

Screenshots of films should be kept to a minimum - your own creative work to demonstrate process is more valuable.

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Portfolio Pages

Does your discussion of each clip begin with a rationale?

the name of the clip

the role you are adopting and filmmaker intentionswhat you want your clip/film to communicate

whose work or what technique you are inspired by

Does your discussion of each clip explore the INQUIRY, ACTION and REFLECTION PROCESS?

• Discuss and provide evidence of the research you’ve done into the production role you chose - talk about how it is practiced in the industry through citations and other references?

• Discuss pre-production planning and organizational approach and how you intend to approach the genre, storyline, and/or idea of your clip or film in your production role? What is your plan for practically exploring the chosen film production roles in order to acquire, develop and apply skills, and to fulfill your stated filmmaker intentions?

• Discuss reasons for choosing your hardware and software equipment and how you plan to use it?

• Provide visual evidence of your pre-production planning that supports your production role and filmmaker intentions: research, scripts, storyboards, shot lists, location scouts, test shoots, casting notes?

Portfolio PagesDoes your discussion of the INQUIRY process:

• Discuss details of your production approach and highlight the skills and techniques you learned and used to achieve your filmmaker intentions in your production role

• Identify problems you had related to your production role and how you solved that problem;

• Provide details of your artistic process and discussing how this process has impacted your learning and understanding of your production role;

• Identify any audio-visual material from creative commons websites or copyright- free materials used in your production role and clearly state why you chose to use these materials (instead of creating them yourself), where they can be seen or heard, and the ways in which you adapted or altered this material “to make it your own”;

• Provide visual evidence from the film shoot that supports your production role and filmmaker intentions: camera logs, behind the scenes photographs, before/after set décor, shooting scripts, and/or other on-set/location items.

Portfolio PagesDoes your discussion of the ACTION process in each clip:

• Reflect on what you have learned about the production role you chose through a consideration of the successes and challenges you experienced?

• Discuss to what extent you fulfilled your filmmaker intentions and how you have grown as a filmmaker through your experience in this production role

• Identify what elements of the IB Learner Profile you employed in your process? • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your approach and final work and what

you might do again

Portfolio Pages

Does your discussion of the REFLECTION process in each clip:

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Portfolio Pages

Is your Works Cited page formatted correctly? • Use MLA format

Did you employ in-text citations ?Don’t know how? Go to MLA In-Text Citiations

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Portfolio Pages

• in alphabetical order by author and/or film title • Single spaced within individual citation entry • Single indent for second line of the same citation

entry • 1.5 to 2 spaces per entry • Titles in italics

Is your works cited page…

Portfolio Pages

You should have 5 sources of research per production. That is about 25-40 sources available to cite, if you mention the source within your commentary.

Sources to include: • Primary sources from influential filmmakers • Tutorials and guides • Critical analysis from published film scholars • Film productions that have influenced you • Interviews with filmmakers/film crews • Series like “Anatomy of a Scene” from NYT • Industry publications

You are required to clearly state in your portfolio pages: • why you chose to use the creative commons or

copyright-free materials • where the materials can be seen or heard in the film

reel and • how you adapted or altered that material for use in this

task.Portfolio Pages

Did you use creative commons or copyright-free materials?

You cannot have more than 30 seconds of sound you did not create. The materials must also be appropriately referenced in the submitted list of sources.

Film Reel Checklist

Dianne St Clair

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Film Reel Does your 9 minute film reel include 3 ‘chapters’ for your 3 production roles?

Is each ‘chapter’ of your film no longer than 3 minutes (this does not include your black slate)

Film Reel Does each chapter include 1-6 clips of evidence?

Do your clips feature the best evidence of your work?

Film Reel Does each chapter of your film begin with a black slate?

Film Reel

Does each black slate run for 10 seconds?

Does each black slate include:

• Film Production Role (1, 2, or 3) • Role • Title of the clip • Duration of the clip

Film Reel Did you export a copy of your video (MP4) to your hard/external drive for back-up?

Did you export your film to you-tube? •This URL will go on the cover of your portfolio page.

Film Production Assessment

Due December 18th

Dianne St Clair

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