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Colossal Cinemas: Movie Merch Mayhem – Project
A project in which students can design a merchandise line and create a movie trailer for a chosen movie to screen at Colossal Cinemas.
Let’s go to Colossal Cinemas, the best cinema around!
This teaching resource is a project for students to choose a movie they are enthusiastic about and create their own:
- merchandise line, including combo and collectible items sold at Colossal Cinemas
- promotional material, such as ‘Coming Soon’ posters
- movie trailer to be used for advertising.
This project can be completed as an individual or collaborative group task. Students get to use their vocabulary, speaking and listening skills and knowledge to promote their movie of choice in the best light.
Check out our other related projects and resources in the Colossal Cinemas Resource Collection.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACADRM036
Develop skills and techniques of voice and movement to create character, mood and atmosphere and focus dramatic action
- ACADRM035
Explore dramatic action, empathy and space in improvisations, playbuilding and scripted drama to develop characters and situations
- ACADRM033
Shape and perform dramatic action using narrative structures and tension in devised and scripted drama, including exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drama
- ACADRM032
Use voice, body, movement and language to sustain role and relationships and create dramatic action with a sense of time and place
- ACADRM031
Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama
- ACADRM037
Rehearse and perform devised and scripted drama that develops narrative, drives dramatic tension, and uses dramatic symbol, performance styles and design elements to share community and cultural stories and engage an audience
- ACELT1614
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plotsElaborationsexploring texts on a similar topic by authors with very different styles, for example comparing fantasy quest novels or realistic novels on a spe...
- ACELT1616
Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an authorâs individual styleElaborationsexploring two or more texts by the sa...
- ACELT1602
Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationshipsElaborationscommenting on how authors have established setting and period in different cultures and times and the relevance of characters, ac...
- ACELT1613
Make connections between studentsâ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contextsElaborationsrecognising the influence our different historical, social and cu...
- ACELY1698
Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to contextElaborationsidentifying the narrative voice (the ...
- ACELT1610
Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responsesElaborationsidentifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experience...
- ACELT1608
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contextsElaborationsdescribing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptio...
- ACELY1686
Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary textsElaborationsviewing documentaries and news footage from different periods, comparing the style of pres...
- ACELT1603
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of viewElaborationssharing and discussing studentsâ own and othersâ understanding of the effects of particular literary techniques on their appreciation of t...
- ACELT1615
Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different textsElaborationsnoting how degrees of possibility are opened up through the use of modal verbs (for examp...
- ACELT1794
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settingsElaborationscollaboratively plan, compose, sequence and prepare a literary text along a familiar storyline, using film, sound and images to convey setting, characters and points o...

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