Advanced Diploma in Motion Picture Production

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Identify and apply efficient cinematographic techniques and principles of lens application in communicating the visual narrative in cinema.
• Show an understanding of the foundations for lighting styles and apply their knowledge to an aesthetic value.
• Identify and use probable management methods of cinematic resources within the context of specific narrative criteria.
• Ethical criteria for professional cinematographic practice are identified in problem-solving logistics in correlation with conceptual planning.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Demonstrate effective use of visual techniques to communicate the narrative through the camera.
• Achieve the use of aesthetic lighting styles for effective contextual artistic value.
• Utilize advanced logistical planning for cinematic conceptualization within professionally accepted ethical criteria for motion picture production.
• Use advanced conceptual methods in managing cinematographic resources within specified production criteria.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Apply effective editing techniques and principles of post-production in communicating the sentient narrative in cinema.
• Incorporate editing theory in the foundations of narrative forms and their aesthetic value within applied editing techniques.
• Ethical criteria for professional editing practice are identified in problem-solving structural problems in correlation with conceptual planning.
• Use advanced conceptual methods in managing editing resources within specified production criteria.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:

• Demonstrate advanced use of compilation techniques to produce intellectual and emotive stimulation through the effective application of narrative editing.
• Achieve the use of post-production finishing requirements for effective contextual artistic value.
• Utilize advanced digital workflow planning within professionally accepted ethical criteria for motion picture productions.
• Achieve advanced editing resource management within specific production criteria.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Identify effective directorial intent and create a directorial equivalent based on theoretical principles of cinematic direction.
• Identify the foundations for performance movement and implement their dynamic visual motion and their aesthetic value in directing methodologies.
• Ethical criteria for professional directorial practice are identified in problem-solving logistics in correlation with conceptual planning for performance and mise en scene.
• Achieve advanced directorial management of resources through collaboration between camera set-ups and staging elements.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:

• Demonstrate effective use of directing techniques to communicate the narrative through directorial conceptualization and execution of intent.
• Achieve constructive use of performance methods and dynamic motion for an aesthetic visual style to attain contextual artistic value.
• Utilize advanced ethical planning for maximizing performance and mise en scene to realize a professionally directed motion picture production.
• Achieve advanced management of directorial resources to achieve specific production criteria.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:

• Identify the most effective screenwriting techniques of commercially successful screenplays for implementation in scriptwriting.
• Identify the foundations for writing structures and apply in your writing model for aesthetic value in scriptwriting.
• Ethical criteria for professional screenwriting practice are identified and implemented in the analysis of Archetype characters of the Hero's Journey models of Chris Vogler and Joseph Campbell.
• Within the context of specific narrative criteria, identify simple and complex themes in feature films for the implementation of script theory.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:

• Apply the most effective screenwriting techniques of commercially successful screenplays through the writing of a screenplay.
• Utilize advanced writing methods for creating aesthetically relevant narrative modes, plots, and characters for motion picture productions.
• Classify and apply the structures and Archetype characters of the Hero's Journey models of Chris Vogler and Joseph Campbell.
• Achieve advanced planning of screenwriting themes through illustrating simple and complex themes in feature films.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 9:

• Identify through the use of constructive analysis the most effective pre-production screenwriting elements of a given film.
• Identify through the use of constructive analysis the production elements of directing and cinematography used to convey the visual and performative narrative of a given film.
• Identify through the use of constructive analysis the post-production editing techniques used to convey the sentient elements of a given film.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 10:

• Execute the appropriate paperwork and protocol for pre-production of motion pictures, inclusive of logistical and ethical pre-production restrictions within a framework of accountability and collaboration in a motion picture.
• Execute the appropriate paperwork and protocol for production of motion pictures, inclusive of logistical and ethical production restrictions within a framework of accountability and collaboration in a motion picture.
• Execute the appropriate paperwork and protocol for post-production of motion pictures, inclusive of logistical and ethical production restrictions within a framework of accountability and collaboration in a motion picture.

Integrated Assessment:

• Continuous Assessment will be used.
• Formative and summative assessment methods will be applied.
• Assessments will be appropriate to the teaching mode.
• Constructive alignment will be applied.
• Outcomes and assessment criteria will be communicated clearly.
• Various formative assessment methods will be utilized.
• Summative assessments will be conducted for theory and practical subjects.
• Learners will be encouraged to self-reflect after assessments to improve.
• Structured theoretical tests and practical evaluations will be part of the summative assessment.