• Assessment 1: Early Feedback Task. Due Week 3 (5%) (50-word equivalent)

Students will complete an online quiz early feedback task. This formative assessment will ensure that students are engaging with the course material, are aware of assessment and attendance requirements and recognise how to seek support both within and outside the unit.

• Assessment 2: Film Genre Multimedia Submission and Written Analysis – (1 minute video + 750 words) Due Week 6 (25%) (1250-word equivalent)

This assessment task provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate and deepen their understanding of the central concepts and analytical methodologies utilised in the unit. Students will submit a 1-minute multimedia clip (produced in the 3x editing workshops – weeks 2, 4, and 6) as well as a 750-word analysis/reflection.

• Assessment 3: Lead the class presentations. (All groups run a “lead the class” presentation in 2 out of 3 scheduled presentation seminars). Due multiple weeks. 1500 word-equivalent (30%)

• Assessment 3a: First Group Lead the Class – due Week 9 or 11 (725-word equivalent)

Groups facilitate a discussion in seminars of a core idea or concept from the course relating this concept to the film screened in the previous week’s screening-event and 1 additional set film. Groups will need to present an argument or claim for the class to consider and will need to illustrate this argument or claim with clips from 1 or both films.

Students will be provided with a lesson-plan template to assist in planning this task and seminars leaders will model the use of the template to conduct a 10-15 minute in-class discussion in weeks 3 and 5.

Students submit a short individual (100-200 word) reflection on: their contribution to the group; what worked well; what didn’t go as planned; what they will do differently next time.

• Assessment 3b: Second Group Lead the Class – due Week 11 or 13 (725-word equivalent)

Groups again facilitate a discussion in seminars of a core idea or concept from the course relating this concept to the film screened in the previous week’s screening-event and 1 additional set film. Groups will need to present an argument or claim for the class to consider and will need to illustrate this argument or claim with clips from 1 or both films.

Each student submits a short (100-200 word) reflection on: their contribution to the group; what worked; what didn’t go as planned; how insights from the initial reflection were put into practice; how successful they were.

• Assessment 4: Major Project - due week 13 (40%) (1750-word equivalent)

This task allows students to apply their learning in film genre form by producing a critical analysis in both multimedia and written formats. Students will develop a proposal for their major project in consultation with their seminar leader. Major projects will be required to incorporate both a written and multimedia component and to critically engage with core ideas and texts from throughout the course. This task works reflexively not only in terms of critical subject matter (film genre) but in its rethinking of genre analysis methodology. Students will be provided with example project outlines and can complete one of these pre-defined projects if they wish (e.g. a film trailer production task: 2-minute film trailer + 500-word analysis/reflection).