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Film and Media Studies Teaching resources

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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

Bollywood & Beyond

Comprehensive teaching pack provides a stimulating introduction to Indian Cinema.

Teaching pack with VHS compilation

This pack provides a clear introduction for teachers who would like to teach animation or include animation activities as part of their class work. It explains how to produce animated work in the classroom and how animation can be integrated into the curriculum.

Teaching pack with VHS compilation

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

Hindle Wakes

Teaching guide on how to use this film, available from bfi Video, for teaching silent cinema in A Level Film Studies.

Free teaching guide

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

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

Lesson plans in support of a study of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker.

Free Teaching Notes

If...

Teaching notes and aids intended to encourage the study of If... in English and Media/Film classrooms.

Free Teaching Notes, HTML

Hitchcock: A Teachers' Guide

Teachers' and Students notes. Includes film synopses and a bibliography.

Free Teaching Notes, PDF

Western

An outline of how teaching the Western can help deliver A Level/AS Level Film and Media Studies syllabuses.