Montage: the hidden language of film - Tom Barrance

In the years between the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin, Soviet filmmakers invented radical new ways of using film. They explored how images could be combined and contrasted to get ideas across, and how the rhythm and pace of editing and the use of music could stir emotions. The montage techniques they developed offer exciting and creative opportunities for students to explore the relationships between picture, sound and editing. This session will look at the principles of Soviet montage, how these ideas are still used today, and how children can use montage in their own filmmaking.

Digital Storytelling using Podcasting and Vodcasting - David Baugh

This session will explore the use of Podcasting and Vodcasting as vehicle for digital storytelling. This workshop will explore the ways that still images, audio and video can be combined to communicate strong narratives and messages in the classroom. This Workshop would work best if participants came prepared with access to media that they would find useful in creating their own projects. However media will be provided for all participants to work with.

Losing the Edit: Shots in Sequence - Emma Bull

Do we need editing software to make films that work, or is it possible to create quality filmed outcomes without the footage leaving the camera? In-camera editing enforces discipline into filmmaking as students decide in advance which shots are essential in conveying meaning. Valuable as a stand-alone technique, it can also function as a starting point for learning about the editing process. This workshop begins with a critical exploration of short filmed sequences and moves on to explore the possible applications of in-camera editing techniques across a range of curriculum areas.

documentary and Archive - Jane Dickson

documentaries and archive materials are not just from and about the ancient past. We are creating and participating in documentaries and archives all the time and perhaps never more so than in the digital age with the pervasive nature of sound and image recording and playback devices. How are we to make sense of this world and navigate this sea of information? This workshop considers what critical skills teachers and learners might need to deploy in negotiating these assets and applying them to make successful documentaries. In considering these questions, delegates will research, plan and create a short documentary, exploring how editing, sound and image can affect textual meaning through an exercise using a range of archive film, music and sounds effects in a simple editing interface.

Critical Transformations - Martin Phillips

This workshop will consider a variety of inventive ways of approaching critical analysis in the secondary curriculum. Drawing on various conceptual frameworks, including semiotics, Media Studies and Art and Design references, delegates will explore the interplay between words, images and sounds. Looking at poems, paintings, adverts and music videos, the aim is to provide teaching approaches which help students gain a fuller understanding of how meaning is created in a variety of art forms through interactive textploration.

Picturacy: Film Narrative and The Primary Framework - Julie Green

Film is embedded in the new Primary Framework for Literacy where emphasis is placed on visual literacy and on-screen texts. Film Education’s Picturacy™ series takes the ‘word, sentence’ text’ approach to literacy further by exploring the relationship between shot, sequence and text on film.

In this workshop, useful for Primary sector professionals and those who are interested in progression models for visual literacy work, key film language concepts such as sound, light, colour and editing will be explored showing how film can help children develop a greater understanding of narrative structure and representation of character. All this leading to raised standards in reading and writing.

The resource functionality enables teachers to incorporate the resource into their personalised learning plans. Delegates will work on laptops to interactively analyse film extracts, create their own sound effects and still photography.