Scotch College

Scotch VCE Media film-makers continue to inspire

Words: Jamieson Kane (Senior Subject Teacher – Media)

A film by Class of 2006 student Tom Moore ‘made the cut’ in this year’s Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) ‘Top Screen 2007’ exhibition.

Part of the VCAA’s VCE Season of Excellence, Top Screen profiles the best screen-based works created by VCE students from around Victoria.

Tom’s documentary film, Perception, is the second film by a Scotch VCE Media student to be included in Top Screen in the two years that Unit 3/4 VCE Media has been offered at Scotch.

Screening the Top Screen works allow students, their families, schools and the general community to celebrate the talents and achievements of young filmmakers.

The exhibition’s selection panel commended Perception for its sophisticated examination of skateboarding culture, its flowing camerawork and well-paced editing.

Scotch students undertaking VCE Media this year visited the exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and were inspired by its screening of 14 short films and animations, including Perception.

Seeing a documentary by a fellow Scotch boy certainly challenged and motivated the students to produce work that might be worthy of screening at Top Screen in 2008.