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SCREEN 2: CONTENT

U​nit 1: 
Intro to Expository Filmmaking & Creative Filmmaking
​Review

​An introduction to industry sector health and safety standards as well as ethical and legal responsibilities of filmmakers will be offered. Expanding the view of filmmaking to include the array of documentary film genres, discover the models of discourse available to the cinematic artist and broadcast professionals. Develop an individual “production company” that will guide course projects based on themes of community to global mindedness. Form small production teams that will, on a rotating bi-weekly basis, create RCTV segments from pre-production planning, to post-production computer based editing, to school and community wide publicity of the online webcast.

Students will be able to:
  1. Recall and adhere to industry sector health and safety standards as well as ethical and legal responsibilities of filmmakers.
  2. Recognize and define expository filmmaking over a variety of formats.
  3. Enhance understanding of broadcast careers by touring a local news station studio. (Entr C2.1, C4.1, C4.4, C9.4)
  4. Evaluate community and global themes that will focus expository work for the term.
  5. Formulate a personal mission and purpose, core values, and vision statement. (Entr C7.1, C7.3, C7.4)
  6. Understand the production development process required to produce a webcast. (Entr C4.1)
  7. Formulate expository segments for RCTV webcast. (Entr C3.3)
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Unit 2: Expository Mode

Explore films, as well as various media products, produced using the expository model of documentary by way of a student generated analysis tool. Create a short film where the structure is grounded in a series of assertions backed up by evidence. The assertions may be presented through verbal commentary from a voice-over narrator, while images provide the evidence. Base the film’s content on a specified audience market’s trends based on research and analysis, in addition to advocating one’s own production company’s mission and values.

Concurrently, work in small production teams to produce RCTV segments for webcast.


​Build upon beginning level equipment by learning more advanced industry standard equipment. Work safely, ethically, and respectably in compliance with industry standards.
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Students will be able to:
  1. Recognize, define, and analyze the expository model of discourse in media and film.
  2. Identify target markets, assess market trends, and deduce marketing strategies through research. (Entr C6.3, C9.1)
  3. Discern differing arguments and advocate ideas that enhance students’ community and worldview. (Entr C4.2)
  4. Produce a short documentary film, from pre-production through to editing and promotion, integrating predetermined criteria. (Entr C4.6, C9.6)
  5. Create finalized segments for webcast. (Entr C4.1)
  6. Communicate effectively, integrate team segments, and produce a unified broadcast for webcast. (Entr C3.3)

Unit 3:
​Observational Mode

Compare and contrast films, as well as various media products, produced using the observation model of documentary by way of a student generated analysis tool. Create a short film where the structure is grounded in the use of observations of an unobtrusive camera to create direct engagement with the everyday life of subjects. Base the film’s content on a specified audience market’s trends based on research and analysis, in addition to advocating one’s own production company’s mission and values.

Concurrently, work in small production teams to produce RCTV segments for webcast. Build upon beginning level equipment by learning more advanced industry standard equipment.

​Work safely, ethically, and respectably in compliance with industry standards.


Students will be able to:
  1. Recognize, define, and analyze the observation model of discourse in media and film.
  2. Identify target markets, assess market trends, and deduce marketing strategies through research. (Entr C6.3, C9.1)
  3. Discern differing arguments and advocate ideas that enhance students’ community and worldview. (Entr C4.2)
  4. Produce a short documentary film, from pre-production through to editing and promotion, integrating predetermined criteria. (Entr C4.6, C9.6)
  5. Create finalized segments for webcast. (Entr C4.1)
  6. Communicate effectively, integrate team segments, and produce a unified broadcast for webcast. (Entr C3.3)

Unit 4:
​Participatory
​
Mode

Evaluate films, as well as various media products, produced using the participatory model of documentary. Create a short film emphasizing the interaction between filmmaker and subjects. Expand upon industry typical interviews or other forms of even more direct involvement from conversations to provocations to distinguish the work. Research archival footage to examine historical issues and constructing deeper connections to the subject matter. Build upon beginning level equipment by learning more advanced industry standard equipment. Work safely, ethically, and respectably in compliance with industry standards.

Students will be able to:
  1. Recognize, define, and analyze the participatory model of discourse in media and film.
  2. Identify target markets, assess market trends, and deduce marketing strategies through research. (Entr C6.3, C9.1)
  3. Discern differing arguments and advocate ideas that enhance students’ community and worldview. (Entr C4.2)
  4. Produce a short documentary film, from pre-production through to editing and promotion, integrating predetermined criteria. (Entr C4.6, C9.6)
  5. Create finalized segments for webcast. (Entr C4.1)
  6. Communicate effectively, integrate team segments, and produce a unified broadcast for webcast. (Entr C3.3)

Unit 5:
Poetic Mode

Assess films, as well as various media products, produced using the poetic model of documentary. Create a short film, perhaps bearing a close resemblance to experimental and avant-garde film, emphasizing visual associations, tonal or rhythmic qualities, description, and form. Build upon beginning level equipment by learning more advanced industry standard equipment. Work safely, ethically, and respectably in compliance with industry standards.

Students will be able to:
  1. Recognize, define, and analyze the poetic model of discourse in media and film.
  2. Identify target markets, assess market trends, and deduce marketing strategies through research. (Entr C6.3, C9.1)
  3. Discern differing arguments and advocate ideas that enhance students’ community and worldview. (Entr C4.2)
  4. Produce a short documentary film, from pre-production through to editing and promotion, integrating predetermined criteria. (Entr C4.6, C9.6)
  5. Create finalized segments for webcast. (Entr C4.1)
  6. Communicate effectively, integrate team segments, and produce a unified broadcast for webcast. (Entr C3.3)

Unit 6:
Reflexive Mode

Deconstruct films, as well as various media products, produced using the reflexive model of documentary. Create a short film, which could include the mockumentary format, calling attention to the assumptions and conventions that govern filmmaking, increasing the viewer’s awareness of how film construct representations of reality.  Work safely, ethically, and respectably in compliance with industry standards.

Students will be able to:
  1. Recognize, define, and analyze the reflexive model of discourse in media and film.
  2. Identify target markets, assess market trends, and deduce marketing strategies through research. (Entr C6.3, C9.1)
  3. Discern differing arguments and advocate ideas that enhance students’ community and worldview. (Entr C4.2)
  4. Produce a short documentary film, from pre-production through to editing and promotion, integrating predetermined criteria. (Entr C4.6, C9.6)
  5. Create finalized segments for webcast. (Entr C4.1)
  6. Communicate effectively, integrate team segments, and produce a unified broadcast for webcast. (Entr C3.3)
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Program Director

Chris Hanks
Stage & Screen Pathways​
CTE Department Chair
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Contact

[email protected]
(916) 375-7800 x2753
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Location

River City High School
1 Raider Lane
West Sacramento, CA 95691
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