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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/