Assessment Content that must be covered and structure

Unit 16: Assessment Outcomes and Criteria - how to structure your assignments

Task 1: Pass/Merit 
Timeline:

Paired Pass Task: Describe the Filmmakers, their significant films & their contribution to editing 

Early cinema, modern cinema, contemporary cinema. 

Merit: Explain how one development led to another (context ie Continuity vs Montage)

• Lumieres
• Melies
• Porter
• Griffiths
• Eisenstein/Kuleshov
• Hitchcock
• Goddard
• Kubrick
• Scorcese
• Tarantino
• Nolan

Task 2: Pass/Merit

Pass Task: Portfolio of Editing Techniques & Terminology - with annotations on how, why it is used and when it was developed/by whom. 

You will film these in your teams/provide examples as a class and explain how they are used for mainstream or alternative the Merit

Mainstream Techniques:

• seamless; 
• continuity; 
• motivated; 
• parallel editing; 
• 180o rule; 
• cutaways; 
• point of view shot; 
• shot-reverse-shot; 
• crosscutting; 

Alternative Techniques

• Montage; 
• jump-cutting; 

Terminology of editing

• splicing; 
• transitions, eg cut, dissolve, fade, wipe; 
• providing and withholding information; 
• editing rhythm; 
• cutting to soundtrack

Task 3: Merit/Distinction

BFI Video Guide: The development, purpose and techniques of editing from Early to Contemporary

Paired Group Task. Voiceover or Youtube Annotations edited to significant images and clips 

Development: 

• in-camera editing; 
• following the action; 
• multiple points of view; 
• shot variation; 
• manipulation of diegetic time and space; 
• film, video; 
• analogue; 
• digital

*Purposes: 

• storytelling, eg engaging the viewer, development of drama, 
• combining shots into sequences; 
• creating pace
• creating motivation
• manipulating time and space

Conventions and techniques: (*This section will also form part of your re-submission for Unit 22.1 Distinction Assignment)

Mainstream Techniques:
seamless; 
continuity; 
motivated; 
parallel editing; 
180o rule; 
cutaways; 
point of view shot; 
shot-reverse-shot; 
crosscutting; 

Alternative Techniques

Montage; 

jump-cutting; 

Techniques of editing
splicing; 
transitions, eg cut, dissolve, fade, wipe; 
providing and withholding information; 
editing rhythm; 
cutting to soundtrack

Task 3 bfi video guide structure from ctkmedia

M1: in discussing the development of editing learners will show how or why one stage developed from another. They will talk about the principles in such a way as to show how or why they have developed or will be able to say why they have become, as they are, basic to the process. They will explain why particular techniques are used in specific circumstances or to explain the strengths and weaknesses of given techniques. Detailed illustrative exemplification drawn from details or elements of the films studied will be given to support what is said, but learners will not elucidate these examples to show how they illustrate the point they support. 

A merit grade learner might note, "One of the main principles of continuity editing is the 180o rule. This means that the camera must always stay on the same side of the line along which an action takes place because if it did not the viewer would soon become confused about what was happening."

D1: in their discussion of the development of editing, learners will develop ideas critically (that is, they will compare, assess and discriminate), supporting points with clear arguments and evidence. They will draw out of an example precisely what it is about it that exemplifies the point it illustrates. Typically, distinction grade learners will merge discussion of development with discussion of the principles of editing, demonstrating their understanding of the latter through the former. They will show a sophisticated understanding of the principles of editing, being able to say exactly why a given principle has developed. 

A distinction grade learner might note, "The 180o rule developed very early, being used in the silent era. It was developed so that viewers could follow an action without getting confused, and is particularly useful when two related sequences of action are happening simultaneously." Technical vocabulary will be secure and used correctly and confidently at all times.