Research into teaching & learning
Screen Dreams: Memories of cinema-going in South East London 1920s - 1960s (PDF 83,kb)
During Autumn 2004, the BFI in association with Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre in Blackheath put on an exhibition celebrating the heydays of cinema-going, concentrating on the memories of people in the South East London area.
Research in Editing
Since 2000 bfi Education has been coordinating research projects by teachers into digital video editing under the DfES Best Practice Research Scholarship scheme. Collected here are seven pieces written by teachers at the end of their projects, together with abstracts summarizing the key findings of each.
Digital Video Pilot Project
Between October 2001 and March 2002 BECTA (British Educational Communications Technology Agency) ran a Digital Video (DV) pilot project involving 50 schools from across the UK. The aim of the project was to gather evidence of the impact of DV technology on pupils' engagement and behaviours, and to identify models of effective practice.
Being Seen, Being Heard
Every year, an estimated 17,000 children and young people in the UK are involved in making films or videos. This is just one of the extraordinary facts uncovered in a study undertaken by the BFI with the National Youth Agency.
School-Cinema Partnerships
One way of giving young people access to a wider range of films on the big screen is to set up a 'cine-club' with a local cinema. But how easy is this, especially in rural areas?
Education Action Zone
An evaluation of the work carried out by bfi Education Research in a number of Education Action Zones.
Edit-Play
This report describes a small-scale action research project which observed primary schoolchildren's uses of 'edutainment' software for telling or making stories.
Making Your Mark
In this paper, published by the journal ECi, Andrew Burn and David Parker consider the making of animated film by Year 6 pupils (11 years old) based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, using digital drawing and animation software.
Moving Image, Media, Print Literacy and Narrative
This paper outlines findings from a pilot project undertaken by the Centre for Research on Literacy and the Media, a joint initiative by the BFI and King's College London, School of Education. The project involved a group of primary school pupils adapting a text into a moving image medium, and then examined the impact of this translation on their print literacy.
Statistics
Download tables of statistics which indicate the numbers of candidates taking GCSE, AS and A2 Film and Media Studies examinations.
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