The Higher Level Production Portfolio shares many assessment details with the Standard Level Portfolio, so there’s some necessary duplication in this checklist. However, the requirements are different enough that a separate checklist is required, especially if you’re going to give these out to students.
CHECKLIST: PRODUCTION PORTFOLIO (IA-Higher Level)
At HL level, one of the requirements of the Production Portfolio evaluation is that our students each create an individual trailer for their film. The trailer section of the Portfolio is like a court of last appeals. It can demonstrate skills and talent that may have been submerged in group work, and really show a student’s ability in their chosen role. Nevertheless, the trailers often seem to have been created as an afterthought – at their worst they are comprised of a series of fade-to-blacks with hyperbolic intertitles.
Just as the best preparation to make a short film is watching short films, the best preparation to create a trailer is to watch trailers. It’s especially important to look at trailers from a variety of genres and time periods – as the choices our students have are much broader than they think.
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