Natasha Leglise ~ EDUP3008 ~ Creative Arts 2014 : Week 3 ~ Media Arts ~ Filming

The 4 P’s: pre-production, production, post-production and presentation

Production

This week we worked on the production phase of the film. By participating in a learning experience that could be similar to what we teach to our students we are able to experience the benefits and challenges of the learning experience for ourselves. Something I would emphasise in a filming task is the importance to be organised, for us the pre-planning sheet ensured we had the right resources and remember the plan for filming. By having the story board we could tick off each scene we had completed at each location and remember the shot types we were doing. Also by allocating roles for each scene, we all had the opportunity to practice each role although by the end we settled into the roles that suited each person best. This is another aspect I would emphasise with students as it was a rich experience to engage in roles I may not naturally be drawn to.

By participating in a learning experience that could be similar to what we teach to our students we are able to experience the benefits and challenges of the learning experience for ourselves. As well as being a hands-on creative experience it crosses into multi-literacies, combining literacy for English and creative and media arts. Jason Ohler (2013) describes 4 literacies; oral, digital, art and written. Oral storytelling is the oldest form of storytelling but also possibly the most applicable to digital storytelling as films tell stories orally. However in the process of developing an idea, the written form is also included. Art is another key form of literacy as an engaging and creative form of expressing ideas. The digital format presents different challenges to literacies in other formats, being so multidimensional. In the case of the film we will incorporate the oral and visual media forms to depict meaning.