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Filmmaking Requires a Multitude of Skills
Producing a film or video clearly requires students and teachers to develop a wide range of skills that are reflected across core content areas and meet many state and local standards for proficiency.
Here are just some of the skill sets that can be developed when students have a film/video production element as an assessment:
- Organizing thought
- Communicating complex technical, academic and artistic idea and concepts
- Applying higher level critical thinking skills such as:
- Prioritizing
- Analyzing, choosing and applying conceptual models and frameworks
- Analyzing, choosing and applying taxonomic models
- Making decisions individually and collectively
- Comparing processes and information
- Critical reflection and evaluation
- Editing and revising
- Writing
- Using technology
- Presenting
State and Local Educational Standards
Related to Video/Film Making:
Free Curriculum from the Independent Film Channel!
Check out the IFC’s Film School, which integrates filmmaking techniques into high school English literature classes to engage students and provide tools for increased media literacy. Their free curriculum has been developed to meet the standards of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA).
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