A new approach to L3 English Close Viewing Assessment

After culling through the Level 3 English assessments for my L3 English class, I have now started to think how I can teach the assessment more efficiantly. More importantly, how I can support a better learning outcome for the students. My first assessment to tackle - 91480 (Close Viewing).

Previously we have taught the assessment by getting our students to write an essay comparing two films by the same director. The essay structure requires the student to compare the film techniques that the director used in both films and then form an perspective on what style of film they believe the director has.

I met with Cynthia Orr who helped me think about a different approach for my Level 3 students with the assessment 91480. The new approach is to treat the assessment like:
A visual version of the L3 Unfamiliar Text external paper.
The assessment will focus largely on students being able to identify film techniques. They will watch the film 'A Beautiful Mind' together and then start a film analysis doing a close viewing for 3 scenes.

The overall goal for this assessment is for students to able to do a close analysis of film - any film - identifying film techniques, understanding the context of the film, director's purpose, cultural and societal context in and outside of the film, who is the intended audience and why.

Here are some links to the some of pre-close viewing activities that I have done with the class. Our discussion around Biopics was particularly interesting for the students. The discussion was good and they were engaged!

Biopic Activity 
Close Viewing Practice