Collaborative+7+min+Film

===Collaborative film project (HL only) === HL 35% 

Introduction
Making clear links to films and filmmakers they have encountered, concepts and contexts explored, and skills and techniques acquired, students at HL work collaboratively to plan and create an original completed film. Students work in **core production teams** of two to four students for this project, with each individual writing a project report that supports and evidences their chosen **film production role** taken during the production phases. The focus of this task is on the nature of collaboration throughout the creative process and on the individual student’s ability to effectively contribute to the successful realization of the group’s agreed intentions. Each student submits the following.
 * 1) A project report (2,000 words maximum) and a list of all sources used.
 * 2) A completed film (7 minutes maximum).

TERMINOLOGY
For the purposes of this assessment task, students are required to work collaboratively as part of **core production teams** of two to four students from within the school community. Students can choose to work collaboratively with other DP film students from the same class (including SL students), with students from the school who are not part of the DP film course (including film students in the year below or students who are not taking DP film) or a mix of both. The **core production team** is fully responsible for defining the scope of the original film and for ensuring that all creative and logistical aspects of pre-production, production and post-production are carried out successfully. While each student in the group will take on one single **film production role** (defined below) it is expected that, as members of the **core production team**, each student will take on numerous other responsibilities and tasks during the project in order to support the cooperative realization of the completed film. This flexible and supportive collaboration is central to this assessment task and each student should keep a record of the nature of their collaborations. They should reflect on their approaches to team work, problem-solving, time management and conflict resolution as a member of the **core production team**, and should evaluate the successes and challenges encountered as part of the creative process. For the purposes of this assessment task, students must take responsibility for one of the following **film production roles** (one discrete role per student in the group) for which they will be assessed.
 * Core production team**
 * Film production roles**
 * Cinematographer
 * Director
 * Editor
 * Sound
 * Writer

Please note: The “one other clearly defined **film production role** not specified above” that appears in the film portfolio assessment task is not available as an option for this HL task. 

Preparation process
In preparation for this task, HL students should reflect on their own personal experiences, interests and skills in film. This is essentially an audit of the experiences of the DP film course to date, and a process of identifying where each individual is at the start of the project, and what they are able to bring to the task. Students then use the outcome of this process to support the formation of the **core production teams** and the sharing of ideas in order to formulate a plan for an original film. ====Assessment process ====



Inquiry

 * Each student joins a **core production team**, making a group of two to four students from the school community. Each member of the **core production team** discusses the contexts within which they will work, developing an overall framework for their original film (which is inspired by research), considering both theoretical approaches, such as genre and style, as well as practical considerations.
 * Each **core production team** collaboratively creates a plan for an original film. The group clearly identifies their agreed intentions for the film, the roles each member of the **core production team** will take and the influences that have informed the group’s plan.
 * Each **core production team** seeks approval for the plan for filming from the teacher. Once approved, each student begins planning their involvement in the production, including the selection of their one **film production role**.

Action

 * Each **core production team** collaboratively engages in the pre-production, production and post-production phases in order to produce the completed film. Each student is expected to participate in all three phases of production regardless of the individual **film production role** they have taken for assessment purposes.
 * Each student carries out their one **film production role**, making considered creative choices and deploying their skills in order to contribute to the overall effectiveness of the film.

Reflection

 * Each student reflects on the collaborative creation of the completed film through the production phases, and critiques both their own individual contribution throughout the collaborative film project, as well as the quality of the final product.
 * As a result of the inquiry and action processes, each student presents and documents their individual contribution to the completion of the completed film piece as a project report.

Task details
The original film created by each **core production team** should be a maximum of 7 minutes in length. The completed film submitted for assessment must not include credits, in order to ensure student anonymity. In this task, the moderator is looking for evidence of the extent to which students are able to demonstrate an understanding of:
 * the **core production team’s** agreed intentions, the discrete **film production roles** taken and the influences that have informed the group’s plan
 * the creative choices made in their one chosen **film production role** and the ability to deploy their skills in order to contribute to the success of the final film
 * the ability to evaluate their participation in the collaborative phases of production and to critique the strengths and weaknesses of their own work.

Ethical filmmaking
DP film students must be supported in maintaining an ethical perspective during their course. Schools must be vigilant to ensure that work undertaken by the student is appropriate for the context of the school and the age of the students. Student work for this assessment task must not:
 * damage the environment
 * glamorize the taking of drugs
 * incite or condone intolerance or hatred of others
 * include excessive or gratuitous violence
 * make reference to, or represent, explicit sexual activity.

Working with others
Only students from the school are permitted to be members of the core production team. These can be DP film students (including SL students) or other students from the school who are not part of the course (including film students in the year below or students who are not taking DP film), as long as the size of the**core production team** is between two and four students. Each member of the **core production team** must have one discrete **film production role** from the list provided. Where students choose to form **core production teams** with individuals who are not part of the DP film class, teachers must ensure that they are able to regularly observe team meetings, monitor production work and schedule consultations with the students to ensure that they are able to verify the authenticity of the work being produced for assessment.
 * Core production teams** are permitted to enlist the help of other people in the creation of their original films, such as production assistants, actors and crew members, so long as all key decision-making is still made by the two to four members of the **core production team**. These additional individuals (with the exception of actors) must be students from the same school. Actors may be adults or members of the wider community; however, teachers must ensure that all of the appropriate safeguarding measures (as defined by the individual school) have been taken when students are working with other adults.

Please note: No part of the work undertaken in this project can be used for the film portfolio assessment task by any HL students involved in the project. Likewise, work undertaken for the film portfolio assessment task cannot be submitted for this HL task. SL students who volunteer to be involved in the project, however, are permitted to evidence their work in a clearly defined **film production role** for assessment purposes in the film portfolio task. 

Structuring the project report
The project report (2,000 words) is a written account of the student’s involvement in the collaborative film project. The project report should demonstrate the student’s ability to evaluate and reflect upon the collaborative creation of their completed film, supported by carefully selected evidence of their individual contributions to the finished product, working in their one **film production role**. Students should order their project report using the following headings. The project report should contain a table of contents (excluded from the page count), which should also clearly state the number of words the student has used.
 * 1) Production proposal
 * 2) Creative work in the production phases
 * 3) Critique and reflection

Supporting visual evidence
Students may use carefully selected and relevant illustrations, charts, mind maps, visuals, diagrams or designs considered necessary in the project report. They may also include their own photographs, images or scans, as necessary, ensuring they are of an appropriate quality. All illustrations must be clearly labelled and appropriately referenced to acknowledge the source, following the protocol of the referencing style chosen by the school. The labels, which are excluded from the final word limit of the project report, should contain the minimum information to ensure the examiner understands the significance of the illustration. Labels must not include commentary, as this will be considered as part of the project report discussion and therefore included in the word count.

Preparing the work for submission
The project report is assessed on screen so students must ensure that their work is clear and legible when presented in a digital, on-screen format. The project report should be created using a common page size (A4 or US Letter) and be typed in a legible sans-serif 12-point font. The work may also contain legible handwriting. The collaborative film project work must not be labelled with the student’s name or include any credits in order to ensure anonymity in the marking process. 

Use of audio-visual material and copyright
In this task, students are expected to be the original creators of, or have a significant role in the creation of, all of the material submitted for assessment. Therefore, submitted work for this task **must not** contain any copyright material. Materials sourced from creative commons websites or copyright-free materials (such as sound effects or sample graphics) are permitted in this task; however, these should be kept to a minimum. Students who choose to include creative commons or copyright-free materials are required to clearly state in their project report why they chose to use the creative commons or copyright-free materials, where the materials can be seen or heard in the completed film and the ways in which the student has adapted or altered that material for use in this task. The materials must also be appropriately referenced in the submitted list of sources. Students should make every effort to ensure that all images and sounds contained within the completed film are deliberately planned, managed and included as an intentional part of the film’s narrative. Students should therefore make every effort, where achievable, to prevent situational advertising, branding and unintentional background images and audio from appearing in their film work. 

Academic honesty
All sources must be acknowledged following the protocol of the referencing style chosen by the school. 
 * If a student uses work, ideas or images belonging to another person in the collaborative film project, the student must acknowledge the source using a standard style of referencing in a consistent manner.
 * A student’s failure to acknowledge a source, **which includes the use of creative commons or copyright-free material used in the completed film** (as outlined in the “Use of audio-visual material and copyright” section), will be investigated by the IB as a potential breach of regulations that may result in a penalty imposed by the IB final award committee.

The role of the teacher
Teachers are required to meet with students at each stage of inquiry, action and reflection to discuss the progress made to date, and to verify the authenticity of the coursework being created by each student. The key outcomes of these one-to-one interactions, which might be formal meetings and/or informal discussions in the classroom, must be summarized by the teacher on the DP film //Coursework authentication form// (CAF), which is submitted to the IB as part of the upload of external assessment material. The teacher should also: Teachers are not permitted to participate in the production of the completed film in any capacity other than as described above. 
 * discuss with each student their intentions and influences, including but not limited to proposed techniques and methods, as well as age-appropriateness of subject matter
 * ensure that health and safety matters are fully addressed for all participants
 * ensure that students are acknowledging all sources used, and referencing them appropriately
 * ensure that students have worked with an appropriate number of other students to form **core production teams**, as outlined above
 * assist with sourcing and maintaining the necessary technical hardware and software to enable students to effectively work in their discrete **film production roles** and create their completed films
 * use their best judgment in assisting students, keeping in mind that this is an assessment task. Their help should generally be limited to asking questions and making suggestions
 * ensure that students correctly identify in their work the **one** role they have worked in
 * support students in working collaboratively and in ensuring they fulfill their commitment to the rest of the **core production team** throughout the production phases
 * authenticate the completed work and provide comments on each student’s submission to assist with moderation. While this is a collaborative creative project, it is essential that teachers assess each student’s individual contribution to the completed films.

Formal requirements of the task
Each student submits the following for assessment. The procedure for submitting the assessment materials can be found in the // [|Handbook of procedures for the Diploma Programme] //.
 * 1) A project report (2,000 words maximum) and a list of all sources used.
 * 2) A completed film (7 minutes maximum).

Students should be informed that where the submitted materials exceed the maximum word and time limits for the **collaborative film project**, moderators will only assess the work that falls within the prescribed limits.