The principal audience for the production submission is a marking team, consisting of experienced teachers, who have been exposed to a wide variety of styles, media forms and expressions. Consideration should be given to submitting productions that are socially, culturally and religiously sensitive and appropriate.

Candidates and their schools must ensure that support documents do not contain the candidate’s name or names of persons associated with the candidate’s school or family. — That means no credits or names or titles in the film, just actual footage.

Along with our finished production, we also need to submit documentation of our production processes. This is a selection of documentation (5 single sided A4 pages) from the pre production, production and post production processes that demonstrate the development of ideas for the intended purpose, audience and context of the production.

This selection would typically include work that students are already generating to complete their production. For example, a synopsis, extracts from their screenplay, pitches, summaries of editing decisions, journal entries, a running sheet, storyboard/camera script/shooting script, photo design plan, extracts from their shooting schedule including where, when, who, time, props and equipment needed, as is appropriate to the context they are submitting.

It is mandatory that one of these pages is the student’s reflection about the process and content of the production and that it validates their contribution to the Production Sample.

The Documentation of the Production Processes must be 5 (five) A4 pages in length, stapled in the top left hand corner.

The production submission will be assessed on the following:

Twenty percent (20%) weighting for supporting documentation

• Ideas/preproduction planning
• Targeting audience values
• Form/style

Eighty percent (80%) weighting for production

• Use of technology
• Skills/techniques (manipulation of codes/conventions)

Candidates must be able to describe what they were asked to do in about 3–4 sentences in the Production Outline Template which will provide the markers with relevant contextual production background information.