Leading Literacy Twilight Summer 2007 Focus on Film Presented by Lancashire’s Leading Literacy Teachers

Leading Literacy Twilight Summer 2007

Focus on FilmFocus on Film

Presented by Lancashire’s Leading Literacy Teachers


Aims

• To encourage the use of film for developing speaking, listening, drama, reading and writing

• To promote the status of film as a true genre


Memorable films

Discuss in pairs/groups your favourite film/s and first film experiences


Why use film?

Creative

Critical

Cultural

Source - BFI


Benefits of using film• Promoting understanding, appreciation and experience of a diverse range

of moving image material• Extending pupils’ cultural experiences

• Awareness and familiarity of film as a genre • Telling stories in a medium that is closer to the everyday experience of

many children• Studying print and film alongside each other • Making connections with other films pupils have seen.

• Maximising speaking and listening opportunities linked to films • Drawing inferences and discussing how characters are presented – using

high order reading skills without the need for decoding• Providing a stimulus for writing • Film as an outcome


Where does film fit in?Phase 1

Speaking and listening

opportunities

Phase 2

Developing higher order reading

skills

Phase 3

Film as a stimulus for writing

Phase 4 Drama and film outcomes


Listening to soundtracks

- Sound can set the mood.- Sound can set the mood. - Sound can affect not only the way viewers interpret - Sound can affect not only the way viewers interpret the images but also what they actually think they can the images but also what they actually think they can see.see.

[At the end of the unit, try watching the film without [At the end of the unit, try watching the film without sound – contrast the effect on the viewer.]sound – contrast the effect on the viewer.]

Moving image Moving image soundtracks soundtracks have 4 key have 4 key elements:elements:

music, music, sound sound effects, voice effects, voice and silenceand silence..


Focused listening

Listen to an extract from the film without the visual element

Activity• Draw any sounds you can hear and

share with a partner


Focus Boxes or Tell Me Grids

• Complete focus boxes individually and share responses with a partner

• Use the character, setting and mood cards if appropriate

Character

Setting

Mood Story


Create a story map

Listen to the whole film and draw a story map

Share responses in pairs/groups


Viewing

• View the film up to a specific point

• Use the question hand to structure initial responses and clarify comprehension

• Make a prediction about what will happen next/ending of the film


Speaking Frames

I like the film because…

I was surprised by…

I think the ending

will be…


Writing the opening

• Write the opening sentence

• Feedback – share first 3 words


Improve your opening…

• Think about the opening – is it most likely to be action, dialogue or description?

Choose a sentence starter • ing • ed • ly • Simile• Preposition


Drama opportunities

• Hot seating • Role play • Freeze frames – characters

and/or the film – think, say, feel

• Thought tracking at various points in the film

• Telephone conversations • Media box


Incidental writing

• Think say feel • Post–it notes • Role on the wall • Text message • Letter to a problem page• Diary • Summarising the story so far/whole

film in a sentence • Character profiles/challenge• Title and blurb


Analysis of film

Sound

Lighting

Colour

Camera angle


Consider possible outcomes…

Narrative Poetry Plays Instructions Non-chronological ReportsExplanations Recount Persuasion Discussion


Film outcomes

• Animation and Digital Blue Movie Maker

• Story box, digital cameras and Microsoft Photostory 3

• Voice over, dialogue, narration

• Powerpoint to present own version of a story


Renewed Framework

Film units • Year 4 Unit 3 Explanations – ‘The

Shirt Machine’• Year 5 Unit 5 and Year 6 Unit 4 – ‘The

Piano’

See handout for further suggestions for using film in each year group


Resources

• British Film Institute

www.bfi.org.uk/education• Film Education www.filmeducation.org• Renewed Framework – Primary

National Strategy www.standards.dfes.ac,uk

/primaryframeworks


FINThat’s all

folks!!

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Leading Literacy Twilight Summer 2007 Focus on Film Presented by Lancashire’s Leading Literacy Teachers