Regional and National Agencies
The Strategy
delivered nine pilot projects with partners across England and Wales. The
pilots were designed to test out new partnership models and ways of delivering
film education in a range of settings. Through the pilots we aimed to test-drive
ways of delivering film education to young people in a range of formal and informal settings, from schools to youth clubs, rural areas and young
people in care. We explored, for example, how to build capacity for using archive
material in schools, mainstreaming film in an innovative school cluster model,
and using world cinema to teach lesser taught languages like Urdu and Arabic.
We have developed benchmarks for teaching and learning about animation,
devised a model for a Filmmark accreditation scheme for schools, and built an
infrastructure across Wales. Through the pilot projects we have gathered evidence
of the impact of film education on educators and young people in the hope of creating
models which can be rolled out across the country. Several of our pilot projects are now up and running independently, and we are currently creating a suite of blueprints so that others can emulate their success.
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more details about each of our projects.
Yorkshire Archive Pilot
Location: Yorkshire
Age Range: Primary & Secondary
Screen Yorkshire is developing media and film education and media literacy in line with the strategies laid out in the Film Education Strategy Film: 21st Century Literacy.
Screen Yorkshire is delivering a Film Education Pilot to build capacity and support the ongoing use of regional archive footage. The project supports the National Curriculum at Primary and Secondary level though the creation of online resources, tested and developed by active partnership working with teachers and pupils, Screen Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Film Archive. Educators from a variety of settings are undergoing training to make use of archive film in array of educational settings, such as museums and in home education.
The 12 month pilot scheme, run by Yorkshire Film Archive in partnership with Sheffield Local Education Authority (LEA), up to 12 participating schools ( 360 pupils ) and the Showroom in Sheffield is:
Age Range: Primary & Secondary
Screen Yorkshire is developing media and film education and media literacy in line with the strategies laid out in the Film Education Strategy Film: 21st Century Literacy.
Screen Yorkshire is delivering a Film Education Pilot to build capacity and support the ongoing use of regional archive footage. The project supports the National Curriculum at Primary and Secondary level though the creation of online resources, tested and developed by active partnership working with teachers and pupils, Screen Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Film Archive. Educators from a variety of settings are undergoing training to make use of archive film in array of educational settings, such as museums and in home education.
The 12 month pilot scheme, run by Yorkshire Film Archive in partnership with Sheffield Local Education Authority (LEA), up to 12 participating schools ( 360 pupils ) and the Showroom in Sheffield is:
- Delivering training workshops for teacher*Provide teachers with archive film resources for classroom use
- Supporting teachers in broadening use of archive footage
- Enabling ongoing evaluation from all partners - teachers/pupils/Screen Yorkshire/Yorkshire Film Archive
- Creating a model online teaching resource and professional development that would be replicable across LEA's
- Bringing participating teachers, pupils, families together through final event as part of Showcomotion Film Festival
- Encouraging schools and families to engage with Showroom Cinema
To find out more click on:
www.yfaonline.com/yfalearning
www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/exhibition-and-education
East Midlands Cine-hubs
Location: East Midlands
Age Range: Primary & Secondary
A Cine Hub is a filmmaking group in a secondary school, where learning takes place within the school day. Each Hub has a professional filmmaker attached working in an advisory and training role, and each hub produces creative work which compliments the curriculum.
The Cine Hub project, currently taking place across 20 schools across the Local Authorities of Derbyshire, Derby City, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Leicester City and Northamptonshire enables school children to engage with film production that has a social as well as educational value. Through Cine Hub, schools receive professional commissions from external agencies to produce work that is public facing, allowing children and their teachers to learn the reality of creatively responding to briefs, pitching film projects to clients and working to deadlines.
'I was absolutely thrilled with the outcomes of Cine Hubs,
particularly in terms of student motivation, the opportunity to
access learning that was work related and the professional
development opportunities for staff. The filmmaker was fantastic
and the final product superb!'
-Jacqui Ferris
The Dukeries College & Complex, Nottinghamshire
www.em-media.org.uk
Age Range: Primary & Secondary
A Cine Hub is a filmmaking group in a secondary school, where learning takes place within the school day. Each Hub has a professional filmmaker attached working in an advisory and training role, and each hub produces creative work which compliments the curriculum.
The Cine Hub project, currently taking place across 20 schools across the Local Authorities of Derbyshire, Derby City, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Leicester City and Northamptonshire enables school children to engage with film production that has a social as well as educational value. Through Cine Hub, schools receive professional commissions from external agencies to produce work that is public facing, allowing children and their teachers to learn the reality of creatively responding to briefs, pitching film projects to clients and working to deadlines.
'I was absolutely thrilled with the outcomes of Cine Hubs,
particularly in terms of student motivation, the opportunity to
access learning that was work related and the professional
development opportunities for staff. The filmmaker was fantastic
and the final product superb!'
-Jacqui Ferris
The Dukeries College & Complex, Nottinghamshire
www.em-media.org.uk
Northern Film & Media Digital Life Stories
Location: North East England
Age Range: 13 - 19
The Digital Life Stories Pilot Project worked to test out opportunities for film-making and watching activities for young people in care. This includes Filmmaking workshops to create a 'Life Story'; creative activities for young people including Film Clubs; and a One-day 'New Directions' conference that was held in the North East to bring together film education practitioners.
The Strategy is currently exploring options to ensure the continuation of the Digital Life Stories Pilot Project with Northern Film and Media and the opportunities and challenges that this presents.
www.northernmedia.org
Age Range: 13 - 19
The Digital Life Stories Pilot Project worked to test out opportunities for film-making and watching activities for young people in care. This includes Filmmaking workshops to create a 'Life Story'; creative activities for young people including Film Clubs; and a One-day 'New Directions' conference that was held in the North East to bring together film education practitioners.
The Strategy is currently exploring options to ensure the continuation of the Digital Life Stories Pilot Project with Northern Film and Media and the opportunities and challenges that this presents.
www.northernmedia.org
Film Agency for Wales Infrastructure Pilot
Location: Wales
Age Range: 3-19
The Film Agency Wales Pilot Project is building an effective, sustainable infrastructure that will unify, promote and improve film education in Wales, creating and maintaining a dynamic film culture across Wales and developing our provision in the context of the UK-wide film education strategy Film: 21st Century Literacy.
This involves both filling important gaps in provision, getting better value from previous and existing projects and initiatives, and initiating complementary activities that extend the range of film education into previously unexplored areas.
The FAW Pilot Project is:
Age Range: 3-19
The Film Agency Wales Pilot Project is building an effective, sustainable infrastructure that will unify, promote and improve film education in Wales, creating and maintaining a dynamic film culture across Wales and developing our provision in the context of the UK-wide film education strategy Film: 21st Century Literacy.
This involves both filling important gaps in provision, getting better value from previous and existing projects and initiatives, and initiating complementary activities that extend the range of film education into previously unexplored areas.
The FAW Pilot Project is:
- Assisting development and co-fund a range of film literacy focused projects across Wales.
- Developing an online database of practitioners, education packs and materials, as created by the various initiatives that we support, for the use of third parties
- Ensuring filmmakers who benefit from Agency production finance will provide materials that can be used for educational purposes, such as storyboards, shooting scripts, sample scenes and out-takes, production design and costume breakdowns
- Devising and implementing an accredited professional development programme for both new and existing practitioners (within and outside of formal, curriculum based education) to standardise best practice and increase the quality of film education for children and young people
- Increasing the number of film education practitioners in Wales
- Creating a toolkit for teachers to encourage the use of film within the curriculum
- Rolling out After School Film Clubs Wales-wide
- Championing collaboration, creating and utilising partnerships and a network of practitioners to maximise provision and access for children and young people;
Prioritising rural and community first or otherwise under provided areas, to ensure a genuinely Wales-wide impact and to contribute to regeneration benefits in those areas - Advocating for film education and its benefits
- Seeking additional funds to underpin medium to long term plans to sustainably expand film education provision across Wales, without restricting provision by age (see 'Long Term Aims').
For more information please go to:
www.filmagencywales.com/education-strategy
Media Education Association - Persistence of Vision
Location: Worcestershire, Devon and Norfolk
Age Range: Early years - Key Stage 2
The Persistence of Vision Pilot Project will work to develop standards and progression in learning about animation. This will be a developmental, investigative project to establish much-needed benchmarks for media literacy in relation to animated films and filmmaking, and will demonstrate how media education can be embedded in the curriculum by being linked to teaching and learning about poetry.
The core activity of POV will be a training and advisory service for teachers of the 3-11 age range in partnership with three rural local authorities (LAs) in England through the academic year 2009-10. Approaches and techniques for teaching both animation and poetry will be modelled for selected teachers in each LA, who will then undertake to teach a minimum of three units of work during the year to the same classes of children, with ongoing support from the animation trainers and from the LA advisers. Based on this core activity, the main aim of POV will be to track the development of children's conceptual understanding and their critical and creative skills in both media, together with teachers' professional development needs, by focusing on one 'case study' school in each LA. The outcomes will be a publication offering accessible and practical guidance on teaching about animation, an online learning framework and a training package.
www.mediaedassociation.org.uk
Age Range: Early years - Key Stage 2
The Persistence of Vision Pilot Project will work to develop standards and progression in learning about animation. This will be a developmental, investigative project to establish much-needed benchmarks for media literacy in relation to animated films and filmmaking, and will demonstrate how media education can be embedded in the curriculum by being linked to teaching and learning about poetry.
The core activity of POV will be a training and advisory service for teachers of the 3-11 age range in partnership with three rural local authorities (LAs) in England through the academic year 2009-10. Approaches and techniques for teaching both animation and poetry will be modelled for selected teachers in each LA, who will then undertake to teach a minimum of three units of work during the year to the same classes of children, with ongoing support from the animation trainers and from the LA advisers. Based on this core activity, the main aim of POV will be to track the development of children's conceptual understanding and their critical and creative skills in both media, together with teachers' professional development needs, by focusing on one 'case study' school in each LA. The outcomes will be a publication offering accessible and practical guidance on teaching about animation, an online learning framework and a training package.
www.mediaedassociation.org.uk
The Cornerhouse Cinema - Projector
Location: Manchester
Age Range: 14-19
This pilot will deliver increased access to film education for young people aged 14 to 19 exploring the languages and cultures of Arabic, Mandarin, Urdu and Italian. With support from Film: 21st Century Literacy and the UK Film Council, we are working in collaboration with Routes into Languages North West (COLT) to offer teachers and their students a series of free cinema-based study sessions. Each with a subtitled film screening in the target language, they will enable students to enhance their language skills and cultural awareness while also developing their visual literacy. Each study session will be accompanied by a study guide designed to introduce students to the session, guide them through exercises and discussion tasks and provide follow-up materials for teachers to use back in the classroom.
www.cornerhouse.org/education/projector
Age Range: 14-19
This pilot will deliver increased access to film education for young people aged 14 to 19 exploring the languages and cultures of Arabic, Mandarin, Urdu and Italian. With support from Film: 21st Century Literacy and the UK Film Council, we are working in collaboration with Routes into Languages North West (COLT) to offer teachers and their students a series of free cinema-based study sessions. Each with a subtitled film screening in the target language, they will enable students to enhance their language skills and cultural awareness while also developing their visual literacy. Each study session will be accompanied by a study guide designed to introduce students to the session, guide them through exercises and discussion tasks and provide follow-up materials for teachers to use back in the classroom.
www.cornerhouse.org/education/projector
Cineclub Youth Clubs
Location: London
Age Range: 14-19
'Youth Club Cineclubs' is a pilot project that will research and test-drive a new and innovative model for working with youth clubs on a sustainable basis. The pilot will engage with large numbers of practitioners by delivering CPD to 15 - 30 youth workers as well as engaging with significant numbers of young people by teaching filmmaking and film watching skills to approximately 100 - 150 young people across the 3 'clusters' of Youth Club Cineclubs. The project will test drive the best possible models for youth clubs and local authorities to work together on integrated filmmaking and film watching activities - linked to cinema screenings and cultural visits.
www.cineclub.org.uk
Age Range: 14-19
'Youth Club Cineclubs' is a pilot project that will research and test-drive a new and innovative model for working with youth clubs on a sustainable basis. The pilot will engage with large numbers of practitioners by delivering CPD to 15 - 30 youth workers as well as engaging with significant numbers of young people by teaching filmmaking and film watching skills to approximately 100 - 150 young people across the 3 'clusters' of Youth Club Cineclubs. The project will test drive the best possible models for youth clubs and local authorities to work together on integrated filmmaking and film watching activities - linked to cinema screenings and cultural visits.
www.cineclub.org.uk
Rural Media Company - Young Shoots
Location: Herefordshire
Age Range: Primary & Secondary
Young Shoots aims to provide access to a wide range of films that will amaze, challenge and inspire young people, opening new windows on the world and introducing them to different cultures and experiences. Cine literacy skills will enable them to analyse, discuss, understand and appreciate film, and practical film workshops will give them a means to express themselves and communicate through film-making.
Young Shoots will meet these aims by:
Age Range: Primary & Secondary
Young Shoots aims to provide access to a wide range of films that will amaze, challenge and inspire young people, opening new windows on the world and introducing them to different cultures and experiences. Cine literacy skills will enable them to analyse, discuss, understand and appreciate film, and practical film workshops will give them a means to express themselves and communicate through film-making.
Young Shoots will meet these aims by:
- facilitating the setting up of sustainable film clubs at schools and youth clubs in the region
- supporting film club leaders to encourage adventurous viewing choices, discussion and critical analysis and to maintain and grow audiences, through a series of monthly meetings
- providing access to community film screenings and filmmaking workshops
- providing filmmaking support and advice on using film in the curriculum for schools
- setting up a network of film education providers and partners working with young people in the region
- recruiting a panel of young people who will inform film education provision for their peer group in the region.
www.ruralmedia.co.uk
Linconshire School Improvement Service - Filmmark
Location: Lincolnshire
Age Range: Nursery - Primary - Secondary
This Pilot Project will develop a Filmmark award appropriate for nursery, primary, secondary and special schools through which to recognise good practice in integrating the moving image into the curriculum.
The Lincolnshire based Pilot Project will establish an award framework through which the highest level of 'Filmmark' will encourage schools to further disseminate good practice to other schools, to encourage additional take-up. Filmmark is currently being developed closely with Artsmark and E.M.Media.
www.cfbt.com/lincolnshire
Age Range: Nursery - Primary - Secondary
This Pilot Project will develop a Filmmark award appropriate for nursery, primary, secondary and special schools through which to recognise good practice in integrating the moving image into the curriculum.
The Lincolnshire based Pilot Project will establish an award framework through which the highest level of 'Filmmark' will encourage schools to further disseminate good practice to other schools, to encourage additional take-up. Filmmark is currently being developed closely with Artsmark and E.M.Media.
www.cfbt.com/lincolnshire
There is a wealth of film education work taking place across the UK. We want to showcase this work and share good practice. Please click on the map or use the drop-down menu above to see what's happening in each nation and region.
Film: 21st Century Literacy, 91 Berwick Street, London, W1F 0BP
Adam Cooper - Strategy Manager adam@21stcenturyliteracy.org.uk
Ruth Brooks - Strategy Coordinator ruth@21stcenturyliteracy.org.uk
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