Assessing graduate screen production outputs in nineteen ...

18.1% 7.6% 59.0% 15.3%MEDIA ARTS CULTURE OTHERFigure 4.11 The focus of the 45 production was mostly on the “Culture”according to the response of the 30 assessorsIt is clear from the above responses that some assessment criteria in the finalassessment set given to 30 assessors, in this project, needed to account for thiswider context of the narrative production.4.4.4 Social RelevanceFive questions in the final criteria set were arranged to evaluate the cultural metacommunicationdirectly. The first of these questions (Q17) in the final criteria set wasquite direct in its social context emphasis:SOCIAL RELEVANCEQ17SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF THIS PRODUCTION IS:Low 0Average 1Moderate 2High 34.4.5 Implied ContextNot all productions speak explicitly. They often do so by alluding to other narrativesusing connotation, symbolism and by silence itself. For some genres of screenproduction, such as Horror, absences of information are as important as thepresence of information. Good productions weave many other narratives into thebody of the text. Some only work on us subconsciously. Some may becomeapparent only days after the screening. With good production these additionalnarratives are not there to create confusion but enrich the explicit narrative with amulti-dimensional context. Often simple narratives weave drama of tectonicmagnitude.Assessing graduate screen production outputs in nineteen Australian film schools45