Learning Objectives

Year 7

Cineliteracy

These objectives have been taken from guidelines on learning progression for cineliteracy (PDF) in the teaching guide, Moving Images in the Classroom.

Film Language

• Identify and talk about structuring features such as music, changes in location, interior/exterior settings;
• Use keywords to refer to elements of film language when describing events in a story;
• Describe how sound contributes to the overall meaning of a moving image sequence;
• Use keywords to explain how a film sequence is constructed.

Messages and Values

• Use keywords to refer to elements of film language when explaining personal responses;
• Identify devices such as dream sequences - discuss why they are needed and how they are conveyed;
• Work co-operatively with others to discuss or make moving image sequences;
• Transfer a narrative sequence from one medium to another.

Literacy

Reading

• Active reading;
• Identify main ideas;
• Infer and deduce;
• Print, sound and image;
• Character, setting and mood.

Writing

• Story structure;
• Visual and sound effects;
• Express a view;
• Reflective writing.

Speaking and Listening

• Clarify through talk;
• Recount;
• Put a point of view;
• Exploratory talk.

Year 9

Cineliteracy

These objectives have been taken from guidelines on learning progression for cineliteracy (PDF) in the teaching guide, Moving Images in the Classroom.

Film Language

• Explain how FVT (film, video and television) styles and narrative forms can relate to authors, production contexts, social and cultural contexts;
• Use film language to construct moving image narratives.

Producers and audiences

• Identify and describe some of the ways in which FVT institutions relate to social, cultural and political contexts.

Messages and Values

• Describe and account for different levels of realism in FVT texts;
• Explain relationships between aesthetic style and social/political meaning;
• Create moving image texts for specific audiences and purposes in specific styles and genres.

Literacy

Reading

• Compare texts;
• Readers and texts;
• Interpretations of texts;
• Analyse scenes;
• Different cultural contexts.

Writing

• Influence audience;
• Balanced analysis;
• Cite textual evidence.

Speaking and Listening

• Compare point of view;
• Identify underlying issues;
• Considered viewpoint;
• Group organisation.