Film and literacy presentation for UCL IoE Primary PGCE cohort

1. Short films and Literacy
Mark Reid
BFI Education
Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk
www.bfi.org.uk

2. AbouttheBFI..
archive and library
cinematheque
festivals
film production and
distribution
publishing

3. And BFI Education

4. http://old.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/lookagain

5. 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
system
Anthony Minghella
Film, media, or literacy?
Film and media AS literacy

6. Choose and access
Understand and analyse
Create and express
Challenge
Participate
About Literacy…

7. Three Cs…
Creative critical cultural

8. … integrated

9. 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

10. Why short films?
• New to children
• Manageability
• cinematic qualities

11. Short film pedagogy
• ‘Tell Me’ grids - in target language
• Hiding and revealing
• Stopping and starting

12. Print and film

13. Character
Setting
Story
Symbol
Sequence
Camera
Colour
Sound
Composition
Cutting
The Cs and Ss

14. character setting
story mood
Tell Me Aidan Chambers/ CLPE 1992

15. Hide Screen, Mark
♯openinglines

17. surprises similarities
predictions puzzles

18. dialogue
music
Sound effects
silence
Categories of sound

19. 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

20. Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk
BFI/ MEA Primary Media Conference
28 November

21. Research, resources
Digital Beginnings, Jackie Marsh
et al, Sheffield University
Reframing Literacy, BFI
http://www.21stcenturyliteracy.org
.uk/library.php
Impacts of Moving Image
Education: A summary of
research for Scottish Screen
http://fashioningandflow.wordpress.co
m/2012/02/20/film-student-teachers-
the-london-nauticals/
UKLA: www.readingfilm.co.uk

22. Short films and English
Mark Reid
BFI Education
Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk
www.bfi.org.uk

24. 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/