Main Idea

Purpose. Students write the main idea of the film they want to make. 

Process. After brainstorming the team select their preferred topic and write their main idea down in a few lines. They discuss the topic with the foreign teacher in English.

Note: if possible, teams should select different topics, so that all results can be published and there won't be any need to choose only the best film on a particular topic.
The main idea is collected in their portfolio.

Progress Report (PR)

Purpose. Team members take responsibility for their part of the project by reporting on work done and work planned.

Process. After class discussion has clarified the work to be done the teacher hands out a blank PR to each team.

The teams discuss how to divide the work. On the PR each team member writes down what (s)he has done for the project since the previous lesson, and

Short Film Outline

Purpose. Teams organise their ideas and write an outline for their short film.

Process. Teams divide their short film into scenes and describe location, actions and topics of the dialogue or narration of each scene in sequence. The actual dialogue or narration is written later in the script, not here. The graphics can be drawings, photos or any other way the teams want to

Short Film Script

Purpose. Teams write the script of their short film.

Process. Teams sit together without the distraction of computers and write the first draft of each scene by hand. later drafts are written with a text editor like MS Word. Not all scenes have to be written at the same time, but

Presentation Materials

Mid-term Presentation.
Purpose. Teams practice preparing presentation materials, presenting in English and are encouraged to think about their progress.

Process. Half of the students from each team present the team's progress. Each student presents 1-2 minutes.

Mandatory topics are the team name, the choice of topic, the contents of the film, who performed / is performing which tasks, the easy and difficult

References

Purpose. Teams credit copyright owners of materials and information used to produce their films.

Process. When writing the outline, the script, recording and editing the film, preparing the DVD cover etc., the teams write a reference to the original material. The teams follow Modern Language Association (MLA) standards for referencing.

Using parts of original materials owned and copyrighted by others is usually allowed for educational use if

Portfolio

Purpose. The portfolio supports the learning process of the students and the portfolio allows the teachers to evaluate ALL the work the students have done throughout the term, not only the final product of the work.

Process. Every time the students produce a document in the course they collect it in the portfolio. At the end of the term the portfolio contains:

1. progress reports

2. description of the main idea of the short film