How Into Film is going green
Kermit the Frog famously lamented that ‘it’s not easy being green’. While it may not always seem easy, there are plenty of steps – large and small – we can …
Course: Sustainability Through Film
Using interviews and free stock footage for documentaries
Young people today react to the growing climate crisis in a way that no one could have predicted. The 20th of September 2019 marked the largest climate strike on record. …
How can we teach social responsibility in schools?
Consider the ‘call to arms’ in the youth-produced short film, Time is Up. The film uses poetry and simple but effective editing techniques to suggest that if we each take …
Pupils exploring plastic peril
The environmental problems that plastics, especially in single-use form, are having on our environment are becoming more and more evident. While some shops and cities are banning plastic and other …
7 camera shots and angles to use in filmmaking
This article is going to talk about some core camera shot types and angles and what they’re used for. 1. Extreme long shot First up we have the extreme long …
How can film help develop key skills?
The moving image plays a pivotal role in the lives of young people from a very young age and helps to shape their understanding of the world. Whether absorbing themselves …
Sustainability in action
Welcome back! Last week in Sustainability Through Film, we explored the topic of sustainability, gaining a deeper understanding of this issue, whilst also developing key skills to explore sustainability through …
Screening your film
We’d love it if you could upload your films to YouTube and post the hyperlink in the Comments section so we can enjoy each other’s films. Here’s a reminder of …
Why is sustainability important?
Throughout this course, we’ll keep coming back to a wonderful and hot-off-the-press short film called Eve, the first carbon neutral documentary on record. In the extract above, we see nine-year-old …