The lure of the practical: from PRIMARY TO MA

BFI secondary school film exercise – last week on the SouthbankTeacher’s blog: http://filmclub.student.edutronic.net/

Media PRODUCTION practices promote fuller social participation through cultivating:

• critically informed choices• creative syntheses of raw materials• cultural awareness of ways to make meanings

The lure of the practical: from PRIMARY TO MA

Year 7 Animation project

Link to blog

• mastery of a medium• intrinsic motivation• purpose(Daniel Pink, 2011, The surprising truth about what motivates us)

Sharing and making new meanings is fine but it’s the editing process – working in the medium of time – where creative choices are made and a critical sense can be awakened

How to nurture the critical perspective?

The lure of the practical: from PRIMARY TO MA

Primary teachers learning how to edit at BFI

Media mentor to provide the right conditions to facilitate a “synaesthetic experience” – the bringing together of different sensory modes to represent one medium through another

(Sefton-Green, 2005 Timelines, Timeframes and Special Effects: software and creative media production (Education, Communication & Information Vol. 5)

My blog: fashioningandflow.wordpress.com

The lure of the practical: from PRIMARY TO MA

Year 7 boys filming verses ofThe Rhyme of the Ancient Marinerwith student teachers on the Southbank

Le Cinéma: Cent Ans de Jeunesse 2013

A film programme from the Cinémathèque Française, Paris in partnership withBritish Film Institute (BFI)

www.markreid1895.wordpress.com

http://blog.cinematheque.fr/100ans20122013/

Photo : Pierre-Marie Goulet/Os Filhos de Lumière, 2011

Le Petit Fugitif, Maurice Engels, 1953

themes

Themes:

Why move the camera?

Light

Colour

Point of view

Hiding and revealing

The role of the real in fiction

They practice:

operating within set constraints taking action & having agency with their own cultural capital

playing with shots & collecting visual vocabulary

Practice

They watch:

a wide range of clips of unfamiliar films / genres

their environment

the frame

watch

They reflect:

on directorial & editing choices

on different interpretations

on ambiguities

reflect

2013 Theme:La mise-en-scène (staging):

1) the situation - interplay between location, scene content and mood (site, scène, sentiment)

2) positioning & movement (la disposition) of elements/figures in a space eg. props, actors, décor

3) shooting configuration (l’attaque) comprising choice of camera angle, camera distance, camera movement, framing, perspective

Theme 2013

The brief

Film an awkward encounter in a constrained space in 4 shots (1 ½ mins. max)

with consideration given to staging - a meshing of : people position / camera distance, movement, angle / framing

You will have 15 minutes to plan and shoot

The follow up

Your clips will be posted on BFI/Cinémathèque project blog:markreid1895.wordpress.comand my blog:fashioningandflow.wordpress.com

Compare your work the boys’ from London Nautical School:filmclub.student.edutronic.net

The lure of the practical: from PRIMARY TO MA

Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love – stairway scene...example of evocative staging: http://www.avclub.com/articles/in-the-mood-for-love,65012/ (2:24 mins)

LNS clip:https://markreid1895.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/nautical-4-shot-exercise/