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Literacy CPD

Film is an incredibly powerful tool to engage young people and capture their imaginations. Our literacy training places film at the heart of education to inspire and challenge students and bring texts to life.

Our programme demonstrates the benefits of using film as text to develop learners’ critical thinking, analytical and contextualisation skills across the curriculum. Activities provided will enable students to:

• decode film texts

• retrieve and contextualise information • consider purpose

• deduce and infer meaning from a variety of texts

Participants will develop a range of skills that are transferable between film and literary texts. All the materials used in the session will be made available to participants to use in class with students. These include a PowerPoint with embedded film content and a textual analysis tool for use with any text.

Filmmaking CPD

Filmmaking has the power not only to increase educational attainment for pupils across the curriculum but also to empower teachers with an exciting new means of assessing learning. Our Filmmaking training emphasises film as a teaching tool to encourage deep and active

Filmmaking can support educators by improving

• imaginative and technical skills • motivation to learn

• communication skills • critical thinking • problem solving

Through filmmaking, learners also improve employability skills such as teamwork, organisation, time management and entrepreneurship. Participants will access a variety of free tools and frameworks for use in class as well as developing confidence in using ICT equipment, such as iPads, to create exciting film content with pupils.

Attend Into Film CPD Sessions: CPD for Groups of 15+

Senior Leadership Teams, Heads of Department, youth and community group leaders, library staff and local authorities can book free training events for groups of 15 or more educators working with young people aged 5–19.

CPD for Teacher Training Institutes

Into Film offers CPD to support the

completion of ITT objectives for PGCE, Teach First or Schools Direct trainees. An Into Film Practitioner will work with your ITT institution to devise a series of sessions and assessment.

CPD for Individual Educators

If you are an individual teacher or educator who would like to attend Into Film CPD training,

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Joining Into Film is easy and free – go to the website to find out more and register or email [email protected]

[email protected] 0330 313 7748

Raising Literacy Attainment

Through Film – Level One

2 hours – full day

Raising Literacy Attainment

Through Film – Level Two

2 hours – full day Participants will be introduced to a series of

tools including the 3Cs (character, colour, camera) and 3Ss (story, setting, sound), which build teachers’ ability to help their learners contextualise and decode film, learning key literacy skills such as inference, deduction and analysis which can be applied to film and other texts. The session includes practical activities such as Sound on/Vision off, Tell Me grids, Role on the Wall, Venn Diagrams and predictive writing, while incorporating the skills of filmmaking through Record and Playback and Shoebox Set Design.

Each activity is designed to help build on a learner’s comprehension, analytical and writing skills and includes an opportunity for curriculum-focused filmmaking and extended writing. Each participant will receive a free downloadable PowerPoint which includes film clips as well the 3Cs and 3Ss dice and worksheet. All materials for this session were created in collaboration with the BFI, Bradford Media Literacy, the Northern Ireland Creative Learning Centres, NATE and our network of specialist practitioners.

Recommended for participants who have completed the Raising Literacy Attainment Through Film - Level One, this involves a range of new and exciting activities that provide a progression route and can be used to raise higher order thinking and literacy attainment through predictive encoding, storyboarding, placing shots in sequence, linking film and literary texts and examining setting and genre. Each activity is designed to help build on a learners comprehension, analytical and writing skills and includes an opportunity for curriculum-focused filmmaking and extended writing.

“Using the techniques you showed us, the children are now excited about writing. The standard of writing based on film is amazing and is much more creative than the writing children were producing before.”

Jodie Soanes, Stanningley Primary School

Leeds Improving Literacy Through Film Programme in collaboration with Into Film

Filmmaking for Curricular

Attainment

2 hours – full day

First Steps Filmmaking

Stop Motion Animation

This practical session will help you to improve curricular learning, assessment and attainment through the use of filmmaking techniques. Step-by-step guidance will be provided on activities including Record and Playback, 5,4,3,2,1 filmmaking and stop-motion animation with support given on how to use a range of equipment and advice on how to adapt these techniques to suit your classroom environment, specific learners’ needs and assessment objectives.

This fun session will build teacher confidence in filmmaking. Filmmaking develops not just student voice, but a range of skills including teamwork, time management, leadership, and creativity. Beginning with the analysis of film texts, the session’s activities include filmmaking and stop motion animation. Young people will develop a range of key skills and increase their knowledge and interest in roles within the film industry. Particularly suitable for use within film clubs, youth and community groups and library settings,

Watch, analyse and create animations. Explore narrative, planning and design through claymation, silhouette, paper cut and pixellation animation. Learn how stop-frame animations can be made in the classroom using a range of technology such as digital cameras, iPads and smart phones, and edited using a variety of programmes. The session will also examine the ways in which animation can be used as a framework for a range of curricular needs, encouraging active learning and help raise attainment for a range of assessment objectives.

“We used iPads for animation and sound, filming, editing, which is something that we can do again as a class. My confidence has grown. It was wonderful!”

Beth Whelan, Madras V A Primary School, Penley

Film Language: Editing

Learning through film:

relationships, health and wellbeing

90 minutes Particularly suitable for GCSE and A Level

students of WJEC and AQA Film and Media Studies and CCEA’s Moving Image Arts, this session will examine the theory, practice and film language associated with editing. The session enables students to develop editing skills and explores key features associated with variety of editing techniques through practical exercises. Participants will receive a free copy of the PowerPoint used in the session and Film Language Prompt Cards for use in class.

Particularly suitable for teachers of PSHE, PSE, Health and Wellbeing, LLW and Citizenship, this session is designed to develop teachers’ confidence in tackling anti-bullying through film. Use film as a tool to examine appropriate behaviours through analysis of on screen action and enable students to positively express their thoughts, voice and learning through filmmaking. This session is for educators working with 7-14 year olds.

A session for teachers and educators of 9–16 year olds. The session will introduce some tools and techniques to enable you to feel confident to use film to start the conversation about this challenging topic and develop confidence in using active film watching and filmmaking as a teaching tool in this context. The activities support learners to discuss themes, issues and questions prompted by a film text stimulus and analyse and demonstrate appropriate behaviour and action.

Staying Safe Online 90 minutes

My First Riff

My Riff

year olds, to develop confidence and a range of strategies to work with film soundtracks across the curriculum as stimulus to develop listening, discussion, analysis, reading, writing, composition and filmmaking skills. This session will provide activities and tools to encourage pupils to really listen to soundtracks, to visualise and hear sounds in film and written texts, create their own music and sounds to accompany film text and create pieces of writing using the language of sound.

This session is for educators of 11-16 year olds. The session is appropriate for school and non-school settings and provides a range of activities for active analysis of film soundtracks, including pieces from the current GCSE Music specification. The session also provides a framework and training to enable educators to work with learners to create a film soundtrack in a day, which can be stimulus for a composition piece as part of the music curriculum or equip young people with the skills required to soundtrack their own films.

“Got some great ideas to use in class for both literacy and music lessons”