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Leading Literacy Twilight Summer 2007
Focus on FilmFocus on Film
Presented by Lancashire’s Leading Literacy Teachers
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Leading Literacy Twilight Summer 2007
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
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Memorable films
Discuss in pairs/groups your favourite film/s and first film experiences
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Why use film?
Creative
Critical
Cultural
Source - BFI
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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
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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
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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..
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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
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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
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Create a story map
Listen to the whole film and draw a story map
Share responses in pairs/groups
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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
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Speaking Frames
I like the film because…
I was surprised by…
I think the ending
will be…
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Writing the opening
• Write the opening sentence
• Feedback – share first 3 words
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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
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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
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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
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Analysis of film
Sound
Lighting
Colour
Camera angle
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Consider possible outcomes…
Narrative Poetry Plays Instructions Non-chronological ReportsExplanations Recount Persuasion Discussion
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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
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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
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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
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FINThat’s all
folks!!