ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how collaborative filmmaking is conducive to, and instructive in, a collaborative approach to learning. The community of practice model demonstrates how filmmaking offers authentic learning experiences, socially active roles and responsibilities for students as well as conditions for self-directed learning. In film learning, trust and responsibility are essential for collaborative group learning and student management of film resources. Collaborative and creative work both challenges and consolidates student learning because the students in group work have to take mutual responsibility for their learning. Teachers in a collaborative learning environment must take mutual responsibility for student learning as well. Collaboration in itself is a process that teachers actively have to get students to learn. A teacher managing student group filmmaking work requires the same skills, as students need to collaborate effectively in a group. The richness of collaborative learning is a rationale for collective filmmaking as a process.
