Film-making matters: exploring literacy as media crafting and artistry

Michelle Cannon

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FLAG (Film Literacy Advisory Group - European consortium)

CEMP (Centre for Excellence in Media Practice - Bournemouth University)

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PRINCIPLES for drafting a model of film education

to integrate critical thinking and creative practices

to recognise the specificities of film as an art form

to foster film as a cultural entitlement for all children and young people, for full social participation

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MEDIA CRAFTING & ARTISTRY:

reformatting (multimodal) adjacency (juxtaposing of 2

distinct domains) surprise (incongruity /

wonder / curiosity) gravity (constraints) performance (screen &

reflect)

Sennett, R: The Craftsman 2008

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Film-making pointers:

Go somewhere quiet to record voice-overs There has to be a good reason to move the

camera whilst filming - if you do, do it slowly

Avoid dialogue, concentrate on the visual Dont zoom whilst filming Get a range of moving and still shots -

close-up / mid-shot / wide angle / high angle / low angle

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The Brief:

On the iPad, compose a response to this text using the sounds and imagery of the Southbank as your raw material:

select 4 or 5 photos and cut up a couple of moving image clips

edit them on the timeline with text and/or voice-over and/or music

maximum length 1 minute

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Literacy practices that include creative film-making sensibilities are opportunities for:

hands on purposeful social experiences

concretising the abstract by making it tangible, manipulable, visible

managing the tensions between planned, collaborative and improvised meaning-making

mastering the familiar & complex audiovisual medium

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Links:

FLAG blog: filmliteracyadvisorygroup.wordpress.com

Film education framework pdf: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/%20bfi-a-framework-for-film-education-brochure-2015-06-12.pdf

Signature Pedagogies Report (Thomson et al. 2012):http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/ wp-content/uploads/Signature_Pedagogies_Final_Report_April_2012.pdf

Michelles primary film-making blog: theclipclub.co.uk Masters thesis on DV production & editing with young learners:fashioningandflow.wordpress.com

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