Index
Film, TV & Radio
Brighton & Hove Education
British Film Institute Now Showing 3  - A guide to films suitable for a younger audience. Useful for teachers looking for film resources or simply a good film to engage their studetns with. Research: The essential guide - A basic guide to research methodologies and categories. It is structured to allow teachers to select any parts that may be of relevance to the units they are teaching or the projects their students are conducting. Screenonline - A web-based resource devoted to British film and television history, and to Britain's social history in the Twentieth Century as represented in moving images. It is aimed at educational users and lifelong learners via the National Grid for Learning and the People's Network. The Media Courses and Multimedia Courses Directory - Details of 5849 courses across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Film courses, television courses, video courses, radio courses and web authoring courses are included. Co-published with Skillset. 16+ Source Guides - these 16+ guides are for anyone studying the media, to help you identify possible starting points for your research. Key writings in books, periodicals and newspapers are listed, together with brief annotations.
MediaEd The website for teaching about film, media and film-making with children, young people and adults.
Teaching about film
Techniques: - How films work - Some texts and approaches for teaching the basics of film language before children start making their own films.
- Look again! - The BFI's guide to teaching techniques for the Primary classroom.
- Moving images in the classroom - The BFI's guide to using moving images across the Secondary curriculum.
- Reading films in the classroom - A summary of basic techniques for teaching about film, from Media Education Wales.
Resources: - Camera: framing, position and lens - A simple illustrated sheet showing the basics of camera framing, position and lens from Media Education Wales.
- Film terms - Terms for describing moving image sequences in film, television and advertising. Covers camera, lighting, editing and sound. From Media Education Wales.
- Indie and alternative cinema - A basic introduction to the characteristics of 'indie' and alternative film, by Cath Davies.
- Living in Oblivion worksheet - A worksheet on the indie film 'Living in Oblivion', by Cath Davies.
- Music in Speed - Neil Brand, film composer, writer and silent film accompanist - describes how music is used in the title sequence of Speed.
- The cockerel crows again - How schools can get access to fifty years of moving image resources from the huge British Pathe archive.
Teaching film making
The basics: Going further: - 3 point lighting - Interactive flash movie that illustrates 3 point lighting graphically.
- Digital video on a Mac - An introduction to the equipment and software you need to do digital editing on a Mac in a school or college
- Digital video on a PC - Introduction to digital video editing options for the PC platform.
- Going non-linear - Parkside Community College in Cambridge was the first of the new Arts Colleges to specialise in Media. Andrew Burn and James Durran describe how non-linear editing has changed their students' work in GCSE Media Studies.
- Making your film make sense - When you’re making a film you should use the camera and editing to help your audience know what’s happening and what your characters are doing, thinking and feeling.
- Practical video - A basic checklist for planning and shooting video.
- Storyboarding - Tom Barrance suggests how you can make sure that your students get the most out of making storyboards.
Equipment: - Choosing a video camera - A guide to the basic options when you are choosing a video camera for work with children and young people.
- Digital video on a Mac - An introduction to the equipment and software you need to do digital editing on a Mac in a school or college.
Teaching Media Literacy
About: - Globalisation and hybridity: What to teach? - Some suggestions for how to approach the issues of globalisation and hybridity in the media classroom.
- Introducing Moving Image Arts - The Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) has recently completed the pilot stage of the new AS level in 'Moving Image Arts'. This article gives my own account of the year spent teaching the course to some twenty students who were brave enough, or possibly foolhardy enough, to take up the challenge.
- Media Education in European Schools - Ruth Lemmen discusses the way forward for media education across Europe.
- Media Education in the UK - An overview of the development of media education in the UK.
- Media Education Worldwide - Links to media education sites around the world.
- Media Literacy and image education - A survey on media literacy practice for the European Commission.
- Qualifications Framework - Media teachers - or more correctly teachers of other subjects who wanted to become media teachers - know a fair amount about 'curriculum development', the process of devising and implementing new courses of study and new forms of certification.
- The 2003 Communications Act - After nearly three years of debate, consultation, controversy and scrutiny, the 2003 Communications Act finally emerged from the darkness. It represents the most sweeping changes in the British broadcasting and telecommunications landscape at least since 1990, and probably since the emergence of commercial television in the 1950s.
- The Development of Media Studies in Scotland - Media Studies really took off (as far as schools and FE colleges are concerned) in the early 1980s with the introduction of the Post-16 Action Plan to provide vocational courses for students for whom Highers (the post-16 academic qualification) was not felt to be appropriate.
Teaching: - Comparing newspapers - Compare a tabloid and a broadsheet newspaper.
- Design and typography - How a publication or advertisement is designed tells us a lot about its target audience and about the image which it is trying to project.
- Design Checklist - Here are some points to consider when you're designing your own publication.
- Formats and genres across media - Roy Stafford examines how genre can be applied in teaching about non-film texts.
- Guidelines for media production projects - Primary and Secondary students can benefit from making their own media production.
Tom Barrance outlines some ground rules to make the project easier and more rewarding for you and your students. - Photojournalism - Gerry Connor looks at the history of photojournalism.
- Spin and be damned - Recent press coverage of a QCA report seems to suggest that Media Studies is an easy option. Elaine Scarratt, Chair of the Media Education Association, sets the record straight.
- Visual literacy - This is a key element of understanding media texts. Students should be able to 'read' individual pictures, and consider aspects such as camera position and angle, background and setting, posture and body language, colour and how the picture has been cropped or otherwise manipulated.
University of Wales This is one of the best sites in the world for resources on the academic study of media and communication. It has un-rivalled links to essays and resources, fully categorised and fully searchable. I will link to the relevant film and TV resources here. Film Studies: TV & Radio
General Resources
Center for Media Literacy MediaLit kit - A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age. Like a map for a journey, the CML MediaLit Kit™ provides a vision and directions for successfully introducing media literacy in classrooms and community groups from preK to college. Based on longstanding theoretical foundations, the CML MediaLit Kit™ reflects a philosophy of empowerment through education and articulates the key components of an inquiry-based media literacy education, including the Five Core Concepts and the Five Key Questions of Media Literacy for deconstruction or consumers of media. CML's Five Key Questions of Media Literacy for construction or producers of media are only avialable in the second edition of CML's ground breaking book, Literacy for the 21st Century. Other resources:
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. They exist 'because media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional, and physical development of our nation's children'. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, they provide information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.
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