Chapter 7
The production process
The fourth-year English group cluster expectantly around the TV monitor awaiting playback of a soap opera episode they scripted and performed over the last six lessons. To their horror, they discover that in audio-dubbing their sound-track, someone has managed to erase the final cliff-hanging sequence; or that poor lighting conditions have plunged their carefully-dressed set into a pea-souper fog; or that the running battle for director’s role has resulted in barely twenty seconds of completed video. And the results of this scenario – all too familiar to teachers working with students in video production – meet an inevitable response from colleagues: ‘You mean it took them four double periods ...
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