International Journal of Education and Development using ICT

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT > Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005)

Designing for learning through multimodal production: Film narrative and spectatorship in Director's Cut

Andrew E Deacon, University of Cape Town
Andrew Morrison, University of Oslo in Norway
Jane Stadler, University of Cape Town

Abstract
The Director's Cut is a computer-based exercise that challenges students to create their own video sequence from a set of clips we provide. This involves selecting between multiple shot scales, points of view, camera angles and other aspects of cinematography that position the spectator in the screen space. Such choices influence which character the audience identifies with most strongly and represent some of the concepts introduced in film courses that students often struggle to master. We describe this work within the theoretical frames of multimodality and production based learning, offering insights into how we balance constraints and creativity as learning designers.

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