Short films and Literacy

Mark ReidBFI Education

Mark.reid@bfi.org.ukwww.bfi.org.uk

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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

Mark.reid@bfi.org.uk

BFI/ MEA Primary Media Conference28 November

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

Short films and English

Mark ReidBFI Education

Mark.reid@bfi.org.ukwww.bfi.org.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