So you are a classroom teacher or a student who really loves a subject other than media? Well let's see if we can't combine the two areas into one award winning short film! Listed below are ideas and ways you can link your FAV subject to our film festival. If you have an idea that hasn't been listed here - drop us a line through the contact form at the bottom of this page and we will put it up as soon as we possibly can!
The Arts
Students could create a documentary about an art movement, documenting their own journey through analysis and understand of the movement and the process they undertook to create their own version of the piece. Music students could compose their own piece of work and develop a music video to accompany in their own time. |
Business & Enterprise
Information Processing and Publishing students could develop a series of tutorials on the programs they use to help future students. Staff could also use these as 'Instruction Videos' for teaching within blended learning. In a similar light, students undertaking Workplace Practices could develop tutorials for students on using the coffee machine. |
Cross Disciplinary Studies
Students can focus either their PLP or Research Project on the creation of a film for their outcome. Students can use the resources on this page as secondary research as well as Media Staff as primary sources (through interviews) to help them complete the work. Sports Studies students could capture their activities and put it to music, creating their own interpretation of a music video. |
English
English students could put their narrative writing skills to the test, developing a short story that could be turned into a film (in any of our categories) in their own time. Students could show their interpretation of a text through the development of a movie trailer for a film adaptation of that text. Student would be able to enter these trailers in the live action category of the festival. |
EALD
EALD students can show their understanding of the language, by allowing them to create their own short film based on the area of study being undertaken. Students can test their language skills by writing a script for the advertising of a product, then record this as part of their assessment and enter it under the live action category. |
Health & Physical Education
Students undertaking outdoor education have a fantastic opportunity to create a documentary of their experience - think the student version of Bear Grills... Child Studies students could develop a short tv show focusing on teaching young children a basic skill or concept covered throughout the subject and enter it as a live action piece. |
Humanities
Students could look at famous songs that were a symbol of the time period being studied and develop their own music video based on the understandings they have developed. Students can explore the ideas of sustainability within their own homes, creating a documentary about the changes they have made at home to help the environment. |
Languages
Students undertaking languages can show off their skills through the creation of a short film (within any category), but enter it under our foreign language category. Students could create a music video based on a famous song recorded in the language being studied and enter it in the music video category. |
Mathematics
Senior mathematics students could develop short 'FLIPS' explaining a mathematical concept that middle campus students may struggle to understand and enter it in our instructional video category. Teachers on the middle campus could then use these videos to help students. Maths students could also create a short documentary based on a theory or concept, explaining its origins and how it is used. |
Sciences
Science students can be turned into 'little mythbusters' - conducting and explaining (school appropriate) experiments as a piece to camera, as part of a wider documentary. Psychology students could record a behavioural study of a group of students, capturing their reaction to a situation. This could then be shown to younger students to help them understand their own reactions. This would also be entered as a documentary. |
Technology
Students undertaking a subject based in technology could have the chance to develop a documentary based around the planning, development and creation of their technology products. Students could create short video's explaining workshop safety, these videos could then be shown to future students. Both would be considered a documentary within our categories. |