Film and Media Studies Resources for teachers and students
To order copies of our wide range of publications for teachers of Film and Media Studies go to the BFI Filmstore where you can find the following series:
Teaching Media at GCSE series
This series provides an introduction to a range of approaches for teaching about film, television and digital production at GCSE level.
Teaching packs
Teaching Film & Media Studies series
This series provides information and new ideas for all teachers of post-16 Media Studies.
Teaching packs
Free downloadable resources
Black World
These notes have been written to support study of the two films on DVD: Pressure (Horace Ové, 1975, UK) and Burning an Illusion (Menelik Shabazz, 1981, UK)
Free student notes PDF
Hitchcock: A Teachers' Guide
Teachers' and Students notes. Includes film synopses and a bibliography.
Free Teaching Notes, PDF
Westerns: A teacher's guide
An outline of how teaching the Western can help deliver A Level/AS Level Film and Media Studies syllabuses.
Free Teaching Notes, PDF
Doing Media Research
Whatever media course you are doing - an A level, a vocational course, a diploma or an undergraduate course - at some stage you will be asked to find out about something for yourself. This resource will help guide you through the process of media research.
Free student notes PDF
Film and Media Schemes of Work
A selection of Schemes of Work for aspects of film and media curricula devised by teachers who have taken part in the bfi/ Middlesex University MA module Introduction to Media Education.
Free Teaching Notes, PDF, RTF
Research: the essential guide
Offers a basic guide to research methodologies and categories, by Megan Skinner.
Student guide PDF
16+ Source Guides
These information source guides for A-level and 16+ students cover topics from censorship to Shakespeare and are available to download for free.
For other resources to support Film and Media Studies go to the BFI National Library.
The Media Courses and Multimedia Courses Directory
Details of film and media courses across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Co-published with Skillset.
