CRITERION A:

JUSTIFY your choice of TASK COMPONENTS

• merely pursuing an area of personal passion or social concern is not enough

• forcing a topic into one of the three film focus will not prove successful

• components must demonstrate how the topic and the film focus are relevant to one another to justify the choice and show knowledge and understanding.

FILM FOCUS

• the Film Focus is Genre and Style

• when selecting Genre as a Film Focus, make sure the two films selected are in fact the same Genre

• when selecting films with the same subject, subject does not equal genre, for example live-action and animated features are not the same genre

• students are required to demonstrate JUSTIFICATION of, and KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of all three elements of their task components

• make a case for how the chosen topic and films are appropriate and relevant to the film focus.

CITATIONS

• DO NOT include only a list of urls for sources referenced. This level of carelessness receives no performance credit.

• URL's lacking appropriate information regarding title author and date of the source material are not regarded as 'relevant or appropriate' and therefore score in the bottom mark band.

CRITERION C: seeks to reward the skills demonstrated in assembling the study. These are primarily conceptual, structuring the use of audio-visual material to support the discussion and the manner that the study demonstrates consideration of the two films.

• successful candidates assembled their studies using a running order of points raised in the narration combined with the most appropriate material from the films or cultural context.

• Weaker candidates used appropriate material, but did not always make the connections explicit, while the weakest, failed to commit to their topic and used visual material as a ‘backdrop’ to a monologue without clear engagement or justification for the use of it.

• needlessly repeating visual material receives no credit

• failing to include on-screen citations compromises performance against this descriptor

• Successful candidates demonstrated continuous and equivalent engagement with both films through the study, structuring their work by points made in their discussion

• weaker candidates appeared to split their studies in two, addressing the films separately