Film making is, in principle, a creative group project. And, while most students respond really positively to creative opportunities, we consistently notice that student production teams have difficulty developing and sharing a unified vision. We have production teams work on screenplays, shot plans, AV scripts and storyboards to try to address this. Every year, we … Continue reading The Look Book
Media Technology
Re-visioning Accountability
One of the things we struggle with every year is the artificiality of accountability in a school setting. In MAX, we work very hard to replicate and imitate the dynamics of a professional work environment. We break students into production teams, we design communication systems and production assignments that are similar to those students will … Continue reading Re-visioning Accountability
Semester 1: CAP–Civic Action Project
Media Academy students spent the bulk of semester 1 studying government and social organization. We looked at the structure of the US government and how all the parts of our government work together. We also looked at what happens to individuals in the absence of strong democratic values by studying 1984 by George Orwell, as … Continue reading Semester 1: CAP–Civic Action Project
