European Cinema Project
This project involves students in all aspects of planning and hosting PechaKucha Night (PKN) events, e.g., recruiting speakers, preparing promotional materials, attracting audience members, managing social media platforms, event day logistics and event follow-up. This project should be of interest to students interested in event planning, multimedia presentations and networking. Students will also prepare and record their own PKN presentations and will learn specific content knowledge related to their area of interest while polishing their spoken English skills. Design theory will also be explored as related to promotional flyers/posters and slideshows.
- Teacher: Brent Jones
- Teacher: Roger Palmer
This project will be used to introduce both historical developments and current trends in local and global beer industries. Students will research how this industry developed historically as well as current management and economic considerations and the emergence of the craft beer (microbrewery) movement.
- Teacher: Brent Jones
- Teacher: Roger Palmer
This project aims to help students understand the art of documentary filmmaking, including historical developments, genre, influential filmmakers, ethical issues and technical issues. Along the way, students should develop their critical and aesthetic sense regarding documentary films. Students will eventually plan and produce short documentary films, learning basic as well as advanced pre-production, filming and post-production strategies and techniques along the way. The culminating activity is a public screening of student-produced documentaries.
- Teacher: Brent Jones