Assessing graduate screen production outputs in nineteen ...

9.4.8 Assessing Crew FunctionsHow does one compare an editor of a production with an image-maker who doeseverything? ASPERA has the ASPRI guidelines which describe crew contributorsthat are acceptable as authors. ASPERA accepts up to eight participating authorswithin each production as described in Chapter 2 and 2.1.17 in particular. The samearrangement should apply to students as well.9.4.9 Publication PanelsThe most appropriate forums for academic publications are festivals andconferences that have scholarship values inscribed in their mission statement andthat are organised by peers. Such permanent academic forums do not exist as yet.As a result academics and students are forced to seek exhibition outlets that tend tobe driven by various agendas with various limitations on duration, format andthemes. Many of these restrictions have little to do with creative output and are oftenmarketing devices for some international franchise and brand. The longer formatscreen productions, in particular, are very difficult to exhibit in the existing exhibitionand distribution channels. In the absence of a formal academic festival it isrecommended that the local State Assessment Panels be defined as FestivalSelection Panels and as a publication arm of the ASPERA in the first instance. Aselection of such productions should be produced as a DVD, screened at the annualASPERA Festival and marketed as ASPERA publications with an ISBN number.9.4.10 Mixed CrewA student may work with a professional crew or with a student crew. How does onecompare the two? What effect is there when the project is supervised and guided bya staff member as a Chief Investigator or an Executive Producer? Some institutionshire professional staff to help on their student productions. Who and what is beingassessed?9.4.11 Assessing Mixed CrewIt is suggested here that a production completed by a mixed crew of student, staffand professionals should be subjected to the same publication scrutiny asproductions produced by professionals in the first instances. The individualcontribution can then be assessed against this general assessment. Thecontribution of staff and students can then be moderated according to the earliermentioned scheme in 4.4.8 which is repeated below in Table 9.1:RESEARCH TYPEPOSTGRAD/STAFFResearch levelHONOURSResearch levelUNDERGRADUATEResearch levelTable 9.1 Research Matrix for Undergraduate, Honours and Postgraduates/StaffAssessing graduate screen production outputs in nineteen Australian film schools135