Course: Short Film in Language Teaching

Rooms are wonderful spaces for films to inhabit. They offer rich resources for filmmakers – they are constrained, self contained boxes, that can be played with using all sorts of …

In this step we’ve given you the next part of the video from Step 2.6 – revealing the girl character’s room. How close is it to the space you imagined? …

In the previous step we created a Role on the Wall for the main characters in Szalontudo. Not only is this a great activity for analysing character and creating a …

Film images are very effective at quickly establishing places – or at least at showing us places, and spaces, without necessarily telling us where (and when) they are. The opening …

In this step we will focus on one aspect of the image – Setting – one of the Cs and Ss that we introduced in Step 1.5. We will ask …

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed Week 1 of the course and now have a better idea as to how you can use short film sound in your classroom to …

So far in Week 2 we’ve focused on the visual aspects of film. We have looked at spaces, including rooms, and the characters and objects we find in them, as …

Throughout this week we’ve been exploring how paying close attention to sound in short films can stimulate, surprise, and engage learners, and how that engagement can be mobilised behind learning …

Please read the text before watching the video. The kinds of technology widely available in many classrooms are ideal tools for exploring language production in creative and engaging ways. Although …

In this step we consider how to use film to explore inflection in an active way. We’ve posted an audio clip from the opening to another one of our shorts …

One of the benefits of working with film when learning a language is the opportunity to listen closely to spoken language while being able to watch people speaking. The addition …

In this step, we ask you to develop the thinking you began in the previous step, by extending the single shot or sketch into a sequence of shots. Then we …

Here we discuss how film sound can be used to establish scenes, places, and spaces, especially in opening scenes. If you remember the article on ‘Cs and Ss’ earlier in …

Film music has been around since the very early days of cinema. Maybe there was something uncanny about the silence of the very first films that encouraged cinema owners to …

Please read the text first before playing the video. Often wrongly called a ‘visual medium’, film in fact has three distinct modes of operation: the image, sound, and time, or …