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Create Learning Experience · Drama Film and Theatre Studies

CONTENT STUDIO PREVIEW

1. Official curriculum anchor

3.13 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks · Applied Creative Task 3: Piece of theatre or short film

Develop, record, and edit a short film or create a theatre piece, individually or collaboratively.

Higher|Ordinary · Leaving Certificate Drama Film and Theatre Studies 2025 specification — fifth-year cohorts from September 2025

2. Original iLEARN experience

  1. Learning intention: work directly toward 3.13.
  2. Entry: short original explanation plus key vocabulary.
  3. Active task: use one of the recommended formats below.
  4. Check: learner explains, applies or demonstrates the outcome.
  5. Improve: feedback then retry/redraft.
  6. Evidence: save the improved response against DFTS-SC25-S3-13.

3. Recommended content formats

  • Project brief — authentic brief · constraints · milestones · evidence checklist · reflection
  • Assessment practice — original task · success criteria · planning scaffold · feedback checklist

Originality rule: new wording, examples, questions, datasets, diagrams and sequences. Publisher material is not copied or stored.

4. Required learner variants

Easy English · Standard English · Exam/subject language

Easy / Standard / Exam English · Read aloud · Reduced motion · Chunked instructions · Voice or typed response · Vocabulary support · Non-visual / non-drag alternative when needed

5. Teacher control

The authenticated Content Studio backend now supports preview → save draft → teacher edit → approve. Nothing becomes learner-visible by default.

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1.1 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Develop a collaborative and creative learning environment.1.10 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Use ethical and responsible practices when creating film and theatre work.1.11 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Identify and develop the pre-production materials needed for creative tasks.1.12 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Experiment with film or theatre features, techniques, and conventions to inform developing work.1.13 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Reflect on and refine creative work in response to constructive feedback.1.14 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Produce and present creative work to an audience by screening film or staging and performing theatre.1.15 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Use a range of performance skills within creative film or theatre tasks.1.16 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Explain the creative decisions made during the development and production of work.1.17 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Evaluate creative work against its aims and goals, and explain reasons for the outcome achieved.1.2 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Explore varied film and theatre roles, responsibilities, and how each contributes to the overall creative process.1.3 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Explore and develop a range of performance skills for theatre and film.1.4 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Explore and develop technical and production skills for theatre and film.1.5 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Reflect on the development of performance, production, and technical skills.1.6 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Generate ideas for creative film or theatre tasks.1.7 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Explore the feasibility of creative ideas using film treatments or theatre statements of intention.1.8 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Identify the key roles required to produce a creative task.1.9 · Strand 1: Creative Process — Experiment with creative and technical elements while developing film or theatre work.2.1 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Demonstrate understanding of the language and conventions used in film and theatre.2.10 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Evaluate how critical response develops and deepens interpretation of specific theatre and film works.2.11 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Explain how critical response informs the creative process and how creative work, in turn, informs critical response.2.2 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Demonstrate understanding of key features in the specified genres, periods, styles, and forms studied.2.3 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Describe how genres, periods, styles, forms, and practitioners influence the development and execution of creative work.2.4 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Examine theatrical and cinematic techniques used to shape audience responses.2.5 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Appraise a range of live and recorded performances and screenings.2.6 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Respond to peer performances and productions by giving constructive feedback.2.7 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Analyse and critique a public theatre performance and a cinema screening.2.8 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Investigate the context surrounding theatrical and cinematic productions.2.9 · Strand 2: Critical Response Process — Discuss technologies and technological developments that influence theatre and film.3.1 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Create an ensemble-driven piece of theatre.3.10 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Explain creative decisions and influences, then reflect on the effectiveness of the film work.3.11 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Evaluate the completed film work.3.12 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Reflect on making the film, including how established practitioners influenced the process and result.3.13 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Develop, record, and edit a short film or create a theatre piece, individually or collaboratively.3.14 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Use engagement with established practitioners to inform personal creative practice.3.15 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Perform or show the completed creative work to an audience.3.16 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Explain decisions and influences, then reflect on the effectiveness of the completed piece.3.17 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Evaluate the completed theatre or film work.3.18 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Reflect on making the work, including how engagement with established practitioners influenced the process and result.3.2 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Use learning from established theatre practitioners to inform personal creative practice.3.3 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Perform the ensemble-driven theatre piece for an audience.3.4 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Explain creative decisions and influences, then reflect on the effectiveness of the work.3.5 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Evaluate the completed ensemble theatre work.3.6 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Reflect on making the theatre work, including how established practitioners influenced the process and result.3.7 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Collaboratively develop, record, and edit a film sequence.3.8 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Use learning from established film practitioners to inform personal creative practice.3.9 · Strand 3: Applied Creative Tasks — Show the completed film work to an audience.