Today you choose the pair you will use for M3 KA4: one film, one related text, four or five focal points, and the medium you will present in. By the end you will have a short brief filed in your Communication Portfolio that you (and your teacher) can build from later.
If you already picked a film-and-text pair in an earlier lesson, use that. If not, start from a film and a related text you have actually finished, so you can point at real moments in both without guessing.
Narrow is the point. Four solid angles beat a full plot retell, and a clear brief means a later make session does not stall on choosing.
You will build your own shortlist next. This is the shape only.
| Term | What it means | Example shape |
|---|---|---|
| Focal point | One angle you will actually compare (four or five, not the whole plot) | How silence works in a tense scene |
| Related text | The written piece beside the film, sharing enough ground to compare | A short story beside a short-film adaptation of the same story |
| Presentation medium | The form of your KA4 piece, chosen now so a later session is making, not deciding | Side-by-side page, slides, or poster |
Compact worked brief (invented pair for structure only): Film: a 12-minute short about a late bus home. Related text: a two-page short story on the same journey. Focal points: (1) opening mood, (2) what the main character never says, (3) how the ending is framed, (4) what the audience is made to feel. Medium: one-page side-by-side document. Grounds sentence: both follow the same late journey home, so each focal point can be checked on the page and on screen.
A common classroom pattern is a stage drama students already know beside its film version, or a short story beside a short-film adaptation they have actually seen. No full plot retell. Four angles only.
List candidate pairs and the focal points each pair could support. Aim for more than you will keep. Next you will cut down to four or five.
Score each focal point for your pair. Put more weight on the criteria that matter most (especially evidence in both versions, and real difference). Keep the four or five that rise to the top. Then fill in the decision sheet below: your pair, the ones you keep, one you cut and why, and your medium.
Start from the focal points you just listed on your shortlist. Add those first. Use the two starter rows only if you need extras.
This is the page a later make session will build from. Write the film, related text, four or five focal points, your medium, and one grounds sentence, then save it to your Communication Portfolio. The shortlist and weighting were warm-up; only this brief gets filed today.
Leave about 15 minutes for this step: it is the only Portfolio piece today. Write the brief, tighten anything thin, then paste the finished brief into your Communication Portfolio folder the same way you have banked earlier Module 3 entries. Save it as a plain text file named like m3_l88_ka4_brief_JM.txt (use your own initials instead of JM).
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