Film-making is a growth industry in Marlborough, and we are very pleased to be a part of that growth by offering a new Year 11 film production course this year called Lights, Camera, Action!

Learning in this course is designed to be ‘hands-on’. By the end of this term, students will have been involved in planning, rehearsing, acting, filming and editing a highly crafted short film based on a scene from a film they have studied. We place emphasis on the capability of collaboration, which is so essential to the art of film-making. Being an English course, developing students’ reading and writing skills is a central focus. Film scripts provide an excellent, highly relevant way to develop students' critical reading skills and students will be writing film reviews and their own scripts.

In Term Two, students in Lights, Camera, Action! will work on a project called 'Real-world Brief’, where they will be charged with finding genuine, real-life stakeholders, either at school or in the wider community. Students will be tasked with making film content that aids their stakeholders’ ability to share their message and work with their target audience. Term Three will see students entering the national Outlook for Someday film challenge, where they will make a film about an issue that they care about.

Here’s what one of our students has to say about her learning in Lights, Camera, Action! …..

“I’m really interested in film-making and the whole process behind it, and it’s something that I could potentially go into as a career. Because it [film-making] isn’t a ‘traditional’ subject for people to learn at school, I would have assumed there would be nothing to support it and expand my knowledge, but because of LCA I’m able to keep learning more about film-making and not have to wait until I leave school.”

Annabelle Simmons, Year 11 LCA student