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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Evaluate the qualities of overall structure of a feature-length narrative film.
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Students will deconstruct a feature film’s structure and determine its effectiveness, demonstrating understanding of “macro” story structure and its application to the narrative.
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Construct a dramatic narrative scene or short film that displays the qualities of traditional continuity-style editing.
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Students will edit a narrative scene or short film, demonstrating effective dialogue, reactions, and narrative information.
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Construct a documentary scene or short film, employing techniques of documentary editing.
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Students will edit a documentary scene or short film, demonstrating development of a theme and effective structure.
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Construct a comedy scene or short film that displays the qualities of narrative editing for comedy.
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Students will edit a comedy scene or short film, demonstrating appropriate pacing, delivery, reactions, and
comedic timing.
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Construct an action scene or short film that displays the qualities of narrative editing for action.
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Students will edit an action scene or short film, demonstrating appropriate character identification, variety of pacing, and excitement.
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Revise a previously edited scene or short film by deviating from the script.
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Students will re-cut a previously edited scene using raw footage and deviating from the script, demonstrating new uses of meaning, narrative and aesthetic constructs not present in the original script.
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Construct a scene or short film that displays a non-linear, discontinuity editing approach.
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Students will edit a scene or short film using multiple, unrelated sources, demonstrating development of theme(s), motifs, and creation of meaning via the “third effect.”
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Summarize significant trends and advancements in the history of film editing.
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In a written exam, students must correctly name and describe characteristics of historical trends and advancements in film editing.
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