Coming up with your own film ideas

Lesson Objectives

• Discover creative ideas for location, character and storylines
• Come up with an idea for a new film
• Give constructive feedback to others to help them
• Develop the idea for your film based on other people's advice

Success Criteria

A: You are able to come up with lots of new interesting ideas for location, character and storylines. You use these ideas to come up with an idea for a new film with a clear genre and storyline. You are able to clearly describe the target audience for your film in lots of detail and come up with appropriate and interesting ideas for the film's location, characters, storyline and appeal. You provide excellent constructive feedback to other students on their ideas and understand the feedback that you have been given.

B: You are able to come up with many new interesting ideas for location, character and storylines. You use these ideas to come up with an idea for a new film with a clear genre and mostly clear storyline. You are able to describe the target audience for your film in some detail and come up with appropriate ideas for the film's location, characters, storyline and appeal. You provide good constructive feedback to other students on their ideas and understand the feedback that you have been given.

C: You are able to come up with some new ideas for location, character and storylines. You use these ideas to come up with an idea for a new film with a mostly clear genre and a simple storyline. You are able to partly describe the target audience for your film and come up with mostly appropriate ideas for the film's location, characters, storyline and appeal. You provide simple constructive feedback to other students on their ideas and partly understand the feedback that you have been given.

D: You are able to come up with a few new ideas for location, character and storylines. You use these ideas to come up with an idea for a new film with a partly clear genre and a simple storyline. You are aware of the concept of a target audience but find it hard to describe them at all. You are able to come up with ideas for the film's location, characters, storyline and appeal. You provide simple comments on other students ideas and partly understand the feedback that you have been given

Starter:

Students work in pairs to fill in the worksheets to help them come up with new ideas for location, characters and storylines for different films. Feedback ideas to the whole class.

Main Task:

Students work individually to come up with their own idea for a film and fill in the worksheets with their ideas.

Plenary:

Students should share their ideas with the people on their table and all students need to give comments / feedback to other students on the table about how to develop their ideas. Post its with comments should be kept for examining in the next lesson.

Ideas for Films

Designing Your Own Film Idea