Course: Teaching Literacy Through Film

If you’d like to extend the use of the visual image, storyboards are an excellent tool for organising ideas about a film or written text, and provide a useful narrative …

The image we’ve created is a great starting point for writing. Depending on your level of inspiration, you can either write a sentence, or begin with a 100 word first …

In the previous step, we identified the types of sounds we heard, and analysed their effect on the audience. As you listened to the sound clip, did you begin to …

In the next step we will be listening to a short film soundtrack, so it may be useful to provide some common terms that are used when working with film …

In the video above, staff at Into Film discuss the importance of sound in film and why it is a useful tool in improving literacy. Why is sound an excellent …

Next we are going to interpret our adjectives by creating them in sound. We will create our own sound effects using objects and surfaces. Try out different sound effects for …

Using images as inspiration provides a great stimulus for creative writing, and analysing sound provides a rich experience to draw upon when completing further written work. Take a look at …

Foley sound is live action sound recreated in a studio. The hands-on nature of the creation of Foley sounds, using everyday objects, makes it achievable for people of any age. …

One of the great benefits of analysing character through film is it gives teachers a unique opportunity to get past the outward appearance of the character and to start looking …

If your students embrace character work through film and you would like to develop it further we have two more activities for you to try. The first of these is …

Many of the methods we use for learning about characters within films are equally applicable to characters within written texts; in both formats we examine character traits, interpret behaviour, and …

The colours selected for use within a scene and the colour of the film stock itself can all have a powerful impact on what we ‘read’ from the film. Look …

The two images above are stills taken from Sausage (2014) and Between Us (2004), clips of which we will watch in a few steps time. These two stills establish the …

The film above, Snowball Fight (c.1895-1897) was created by Louis Lumière who, along with his brother Auguste, pioneered early filmmaking in the realist tradition; capturing ‘real’ life on screen. The …

In this step we’re going to look at setting as an important element of textual analysis and we’ll use three of the elements from the 3Cs and 3Ss in greater …