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Year 12 Industrial Technology Multimedia Major Projects

As part of the Year 12 Industrial Technology course students create a major project that is worth 60% of their HSC examination mark. The Major Project allows students to learn to refine and extend their project management skills by developing and completing both a folio and for the multimedia focus area a production that could be a short film, a soundscape, an animation, a computer game walk through or a movie trailer to name a few ideas.

The year 12 students in my class have been working on their major projects since the start of the HSC course in October last year. It has been a long journey that has seen them work through the designing, managing and producing of a project. They have completed pre-production that involved storyboarding, scripting, prototyping, sketching, location scouting, time plans, finance plans and lots of evaluation.

They have completed the production process which has undoubtedly had them working with teams of people to film or drive them to locations for early morning sunrises. For those students who are animators they have drawn and redrawn cells, moved lego pieces around their houses and played with lighting.

In post production they have used industry standard software to edit and piece together audio tracks, footage and cells to make a project that meets not only what they set out to do but also ticks all the boxes for the HSC marking process.

This year there are fifteen projects.

• Curious - A film incorporating a real word environment and an animated character that explores it.

• Escapade - A science fiction, adventure and action film that involves a young teenage girl who is baking a cake for a dinner party that she is hosting.

• Forever Alone - A short film full of suspense and mystery set in a post apocalyptic world.

• Identity - A short film that addresses how teens can go about returning back to the reality of society and knowing their identities by distracting themselves from the destructive harms of the virtual world.

• Interrogation - A film trailer set within a fictional world where there are Russian spies walking amongst the everyday man and woman.
• Make Haste - A short film/b-roll showcase that implements as many multimedia techniques as possible

• The Meet Up (A Yakuza Story) - a comedy, action crime film, where we see the main protagonist scamming the yakuza for money and now is on the run and has to escape from the yakuza.

• Mr Loverman - A short film about a girl who stumbles across her bestfriends invention and finds herself enmeshed in an alternate universe video game.

• Perspective - A short film about the perspective of the world.

• Pursuit - A stop motion animation about a bank/vault robbery.

• Recover - a G rated trailer of a platform game which includes animated cutscenes.

• Rewind - A film trailer that begins with a person discovering a strange feature in her phone, giving her the ability to rewind and go back in time.

• Stix - A film that tells the story of an individual who instead of doing their school assignment, are procrastinating by going on Adobe and drawing a stick figure. Once they’re done, they leave the room to have a break. The stick figure suddenly comes to life and explores the computerised world.

• Sublime- A short film involves an individual who lost motivation for something they were very passionate about, this being the creative artform of photography. 
• A Writer’s Block - A short live action and 2D animation about a young adult author hopefully to get his big break through this popular publisher. However, he can’t think of a story idea.

I am happy to say that their projects are almost complete despite the impact of COVID-19 and the extension of the due date to September 2nd. Once these are marked I will be sharing them in a future newsletter along with a reflection on the process by Year 12.

Attached to this article are some of the front covers of their folios which are an important part of the process as well. Students have worked hard to create something of a highly professional standard

Remember Year 12 Industrial Technology Students of 2021 - Your projects are almost “ready for the markers” so you won’t hear me say that for much longer. I am incredibly proud of what you have managed to achieve and hope you learned many valuable skills including why keeping a record of production and meeting deadlines is important.

Mrs Sarah Anzellotti
Industrial Technology (Multimedia) Teacher