News From The Nest - April 24-28, 2023
Spotlight on Learning: The Fine Arts Department
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As teachers, I think we all like to see our students being able to apply their skills in everyday life. Some classes lend themselves to this more than others of course, and we are lucky enough to be able to submit some competitors in the TV Film Production category in the regional competition of Skills BC/Canada. Each year around early March we have two teams of two compete in the skills competition which is held locally. The teams are given a topic or prompt at 9am and they have five hours to plan, shoot and edit their movies before submitting them to be reviewed by an adjudicator. |
This was this year's prompt: You are to plan, shoot and edit a video that is 60 seconds or less using the genre of your choice, incorporating the phrase below IN AN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT. You must complete this and the production brief within the allotted 5 hours. You must identify the video genre in your production brief AND provide a brief explanation of how your video meets the code and conventions of the chosen genre.
Everyone, Everything, Everywhere was the prompt topic - a very open one to say the least. Often a topic that is too broad leaves too much to interpretation and some analysis paralysis can occur. Much of the predicted success of the project can come from whether or not the team can come up with a topic as quickly as possible as movie production always takes longer than you think it will.
The two groups looked at the topic in very different ways, and after coming up with an idea and getting some footage, the difficult task of trimming the clips down to a tidy 60 seconds was one of the biggest challenges.
It was a great experience for them to take part in a high pressure film competition - and fitting as Caelan has been accepted to Capilano University for next year and Dylan is exploring options in the field.
Thanks to all the staff support with my students filming all over the school!