Screening Shorts
A DVD compilation and teaching guide on CD-ROM
Short films to develop creativity, literacy and cineliteracy
Short films have fantastic potential in the English classroom. They provide engaging and stimulating material through which concepts such as genre, representation, narrative structure and characterization can be explored and understood.
This teaching pack - including a DVD compilation accompanied by a teaching guide and support materials on a CD-ROM - introduces innovative ways to teaching with film that support work within the National Curriculum framework. Developed by Mark Reid, with practising English teachers, this resource demonstrates how effective short films can be in enhancing your students' literacy skills and creativity, and will help you meet the National Curriculum for English requirement to study moving image media.
Contents
The DVD compilation consists of 6 short films and 3 advertisements:
- One Day a Man Bought a House (1998) 7 minutes
- Virus (2002) 6 minutes
- Father and Daughter (2000) 8 minutes 30 seconds
- Schwarzfahrer (Fare Dodger) (1993) 12 minutes
- Feeling My Way (1998) 5 minutes 30 seconds
- The Sandman (1991) 10 minutes
- Radio Scotland ads - Foggie Bummer, Tartan Toyboys, True Romance - 30 seconds each
Total running time approx. 55 mins
Teaching guide
The teaching guide provides background information, an explanation of approaches to teaching with short films, schemes of work and some useful worksheets and handouts. It is divided into the following sections:
- Why use short films to teach literacy
- About the films
- Thinking about moving image media
- Teaching with Screening Stories
- Schemes of work and lesson plans
- Digging deeper - more about film production
- Glossary
Teaching notes are provided for reading on screen and can be printed out. They include links to schemes of work, handouts and activity sheets, in post-descriptor file (PDF) format. Insert disk into your CD-Rom drive. Install Adobe Acrobat TM if required. Print files as required. Technical specifications: suitable for use on a PC or Macintosh with CD-Rom drive.
Review
'This is one of the most exciting resources for English teachers to have appeared in recent years. ... The films and strategies work with virtually any age and ability and simultaneously foster the development of print literacy and film-literacy. All English departments should purchase a copy!' - Paul Clayton, The Secondary English Magazine, June 2004
Ordering information
DVD compilation and Teaching Guide on CD-ROM
- Catalogue no: BR033D
- Price: £44.95 (inc. VAT)
Buy online from the BFI Filmstore or phone Palgrave Macmillan Orders on 01256 302866.
