• Future Film Stars brings a suite of professional equipment that allows students to experience each role within a film crew, from camera operation to clapper board, directing, acting and lighting.
• Full compliance verification and documentation

• Suitable for Primary stages 2 & 3 and all Secondary stages.
• Workshop usually runs for a full school day in a hall, classroom or classroom sized space.
• Facilitator Adrian Tyson is a fully qualified NSW Dept of Ed. teacher and therefore no teacher need be assigned to the group doing the program.

Working with the Syllabus

As a qualified proficient teacher I am experienced with working with the syllabus outcomes. Future Film Stars program works with the syllabus and in some instances builds upon and extends beyond the syllabus.

Stage Two outcomes that are addressed:

English
EN1-1A, EN2-2A, EN2-3A & EN2-4A, EN2-6B, EN2-7B, EN2-8B, EN2-9B, EN2- 10C, EN2-11 & EN2-12E

Creative Arts- Drama
DRAS2.1, DRAS2.2, DRAS2.3 & DRAS2.4.

Australian Curriculum – The Arts Years 3 & 4

Thread: Exploring Ideas with improvising and ways to represent ideas. Media Arts: Investigate and devise representations of people in their community, including themselves, through settings, ideas and story structure in images, sounds and text.

Thread: Developing understanding of practices.
Media Arts: Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text to tell stories.

Thread: Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or display. Media Arts: Plan, create and present media artworks for specific purposes with awareness of responsible media practice.

Thread: Responding to and interpreting artworks.
Media Arts: Identify intended purposes and meanings of media artworks using media arts key concepts, starting with media artworks in Australia, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Stage Three outcomes that are addressed:

English
EN3-1A, EN3-2A, EN3-3A, EN3-5B, EN3-6B, EN3-7C, EN3-8D & EN3-9E.

Creative Arts- Drama
DRAS3.1, DRAS3.2, DRAS3.3 & DRAS3.4.

Australian Curriculum – The Arts Years 5 & 6

Thread: Exploring Ideas with improvising and ways to represent ideas. Media Arts: Explore representations, characterisations and points of view of people in their community, including themselves, using settings, ideas, story

principles and genre conventions in images, sounds and text.

Thread: Developing understanding of practices.
Media Arts: Develop skills with media technologies to shape space, time, movement and lighting within images, sounds and text.

Thread: Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or display. Media Arts: Plan, produce and present media artworks for specific audiences and purposes, using responsible media practice.

Thread: Responding to and interpreting artworks.
Media Arts: Identify intended purposes and meanings of media artworks using media arts key concepts, starting with media artworks in Australia, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Stage Four outcomes that are addressed:

English
EN4-1A, EN4-2A, EN4-3B, EN4-4B, EN4-5C, EN4-6C, EN4-7D, EN4-8D & EN4, 9E.

Creative Arts- Drama
4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2 & 4.3.3.

Australian Curriculum – The Arts Years 7 & 8

Thread: Exploring Ideas with improvising and ways to represent ideas. Media Arts: Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through media conventions and genres to create points of view in images, sounds and text.

Thread: Manipulating and applying the elements/concepts with intent. Media Arts: Develop media representations to show familiar or shared social and cultural values and beliefs, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Thread: Developing and refining understanding of skills and techniques. Media Arts: Develop and refine media production skills to shape the technical and symbolic elements of images, sounds and text for a specific purpose and meaning.

Thread: Structuring and organising ideas into form.
Media Arts: Plan, structure and design media artworks that engage audiences.

Thread: Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or display. Media Arts: Present media artworks for different community and institutional contexts with consideration of ethical and regulatory issues.

Thread: Analysing and reflecting upon intentions.
Media Arts: Analyse how technical and symbolic elements are used in media

artworks to create representations influenced by story, genre, values and points of view of particular audiences

Thread: Responding to and interpreting artworks.
Media Arts: Identify specific features and purposes of media artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints and enrich their media arts making, starting with Australian media artworks, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media artworks.

Stage Five outcomes that are addressed:

English
EN5-1A, EN5-2A, EN5-3B, EN5-4B, EN5-5C, EN5-6C, EN5-7D, EN5-8D & EN5-9E.

Creative Arts- Drama
5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.2 & 5.3.3.

Australian Curriculum – The Arts Years 9 & 10

Thread: Exploring Ideas with improvising and ways to represent ideas. Media Arts: Experiment with ideas and stories that manipulate media conventions and genres to construct new and alternative points of view through images, sounds and text.

Thread: Manipulating and applying the elements/concepts with intent. Media Arts: Manipulate media representations to identify and examine social and cultural values and beliefs, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Thread: Developing and refining understanding of skills and techniques. Media Arts: Develop and refine media production skills to integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements in images, sounds and text for a specific purpose, meaning and style.

Thread: Structuring and organising ideas into form.
Media Arts: Plan and design media artworks for a range of purposes that challenge the expectations of specific audiences by particular use of production processes.

Thread: Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or display. Media Arts: Produce and distribute media artworks for a range of community and institutional contexts, and consider social, ethical and regulatory issues.

Thread: Analysing and reflecting upon intentions.
Media Arts: Evaluate how technical and symbolic elements are manipulated in media artworks to create and challenge representations framed by media conventions, social beliefs and values for a range of audiences.

Thread: Responding to and interpreting artworks.
Media Arts: Analyse a range of media artworks from contemporary and past

times to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their media arts making, starting with Australian media artworks, including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and international media artworks. 

Adrian Tyson is a fully qualified NSW teacher and founder of Future Film Stars.

Adrian has a passion for empowering students with knowledge about writing for the screen and filmmaking. As an experienced teacher, Adrian is able to effectively design the learning experience in a way that students engage with and can successfully participate in at the appropriate level

Adrian is also a twice Cannes Film Festival selected screenwriter and director, St Kilda Film Festival selected Director, writer/director of 5 short films, a member of the AACTA (Australian Cinema and Television Arts) for screenwriting, directing and producing.

Future Film Stars has delivered filmmaking school incursions to many schools including Cherrybrook Public School (6 years straight to every Year 6 student), Camden South Public School, Harrington Park Public School, Heathcote East Public School, Coledale Public School, Stanwell Park Public School, Brighton Le Sands Public School, Coogee South Public School, Kensington Public School, Riverbank Public School, Macarthur Anglican School, Spring Farm Public School, St Helens Park Public School and Elderslie Public School to name a few.