Research In Editing

The Best Practice Research Scholarship scheme was set up by the Department for Education and Skills in 2000 to support teachers in small-scale classroom based research projects. The project provides funds for travel, research mentoring, time out of the classroom, and attendance at conferences. Organisations are able to put together co-ordinated bids for groups of up to 15 teachers. In the last four years bfi Education has been doing exactly this, in partnership with the universities of Cambridge, Exeter, and the London Institute of Education, and with Devon Curriculum Services.

The focus of the bfi projects has so far been on digital video editing - how pupils learn how to use it, how it changes the kind of work they can produce, how they interact while using it. Teachers set up small investigations into groups of pupils using DVE software and report on the impact.

The reports presented here all focus on a particular perspective of DVE. Six of them were run in collaboration with Martin Phillips, of Devon Curriculum Services, with Hilary Radnor of Exeter University as research mentor. All six teachers were working with the stand-alone editing system Avio Casablanca. One additional report comes from a teacher in a project run by the bfi and Andrew Burn, of the London Institute of Education. More reports from this project will be published in the new year.

Each report has a summary sheet attached. Some of the authors include a contact email. If you wish to correspond with any of the other authors, you can do so by emailing bfi Education

In addition to the reports below please search the BPRS website for digital video editing or click on one of the following names:

• Robert Overton
• Rosemary Houghton
• Andrew Soutar
• Sam Colbourne
• Gillian Davies
• Yona Wiseman
• Jane Sweetlove

Research reports

Cineliteracy and the Avio editing machine: an inductive study

by Jane Richardson

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Digital Editing as a Creative Process

by Alistair Fitchett

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Editing Middlemarch

by Darren Coxon

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Editing Myself: using Video Production and editing to help pupils reflect on their classroom behavior

by Carlo Roberts

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How does digital editing help students develop their understanding of narrative?

by Carrie McMillan

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Observing digital editing

by Bob Hooper

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Using the Avio in the classroom

by Gill Clayton

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