film and literacy for the primary curriculum
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Short films and Literacy
Mark ReidBFI Education
About the B
FI..
archive and library
cinematheque
festivals
film production and distribution
publishing
And BFI Education
http://old.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/lookagain
To be literate is to participate fully in a culture
To participate fully in 21C culture, we have to be literate in the moving image
It is vital and obvious that understanding, manipulating, and appreciating the film sentence should be an accepted part of the education systemAnthony Minghella
Film, media, or literacy?
Film and media AS literacy
Choose and access
Understand and analyse
Create and express
Challenge
Participate
About Literacy…
Three Cs…
Creative critical cultural
… integrated
Reframing Literacy…
• Since 1999.. Core period 2004 - 08• 4 - 14 yr olds• 61 Local Authorities in England; also
cross-UK• Research and evaluation (Moving
Literacy On, Marsh and Bearne, UKLA)
• Big impacts on literacy - and pedagogy
• 7 (now 9) DVD compilations of 55 (75) short films; 20,000 copies sold
• 200 Lead Practitioners trained; cascaded to 2000 teachers 2005-07
Why short films?
• New to children
• Manageability
• cinematic qualities
Short film pedagogy
• ‘Tell Me’ grids - in target language
• Hiding and revealing
• Stopping and starting
Print and film
Character
Setting
Story
Symbol
Sequence
Camera
Colour
Sound
Composition
Cutting
The Cs and Ss
character setting
story mood
Tell Me Aidan Chambers/ CLPE 1992
Hide Screen, Mark
♯openinglines
surprises similarities
predictions puzzles
dialogue
music
Sound effects
silence
Categories of sound
Starting Stories and Starting Stories 2 (EYFS/ KS1)
Story Shorts and Story Shorts 2 (KS2)
Cine-minis (KS2 &3 French and literacy)
Real Shorts (KS2 & 3 non-fiction)
Screening Shorts; Moving Shorts (KS3/4 English)
Available at BFI Filmstore online
BFI Shorts
Research, resources
Digital Beginnings, Jackie Marsh et al, Sheffield University
Reframing Literacy, BFIhttp://www.21stcenturyliteracy.org.uk/library.php
Impacts of Moving Image Education: A summary of research for Scottish Screenhttp://fashioningandflow.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/film-student-teachers-the-london-nauticals/
UKLA: www.readingfilm.co.uk
The Cinematic - and the Cinematheque
Le Cinema cent ans de jeunesse - since 1995
• Structured film viewing and making over 50 hours• Different element of film language every year• Two days’ training in Paris• Exercises - play, experiment, frequent and short• final ‘film essai’• Peer screening and discussion in Paris every June• 2011 ‘montrer/cacher’ - hiding and revealing in film
http://100ans.cinematheque.fr/100ans20092010/
http://markreid1895.wordpress.com
