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Into Film CPD Programme

Literacy CPD

Film is an incredibly powerful tool to engage young people and capture their imaginations. Our literacy training places film at the heart of education to inspire and challenge students and bring texts to life.

Our programme demonstrates the benefits of using film as text to develop learners’ critical thinking, analytical and contextualisation skills across the curriculum. Activities provided will enable students to:• decode film texts• retrieve and contextualise information • consider purpose • deduce and infer meaning from a variety

of texts

Participants will develop a range of skills that are transferable between film and literary texts. All the materials used in the session will be made available to participants to use in class with students. These include a PowerPoint with embedded film content and a textual analysis tool for use with any text.

Filmmaking CPD

Filmmaking has the power not only to increase educational attainment for pupils across the curriculum, but also to empower teachers with an exciting new means of assessing learning. Our Filmmaking training emphasises film as a teaching tool to encourage deep and active learning, and facilitates young people in taking control of their own learning processes.

Filmmaking can support educators by improving: • imaginative and technical skills • motivation to learn • communication skills • critical thinking • problem solving Through filmmaking, learners also improve employability skills such as teamwork, organisation, time management and entrepreneurship. Participants will access a variety of free tools and frameworks for use in class as well as developing confidence in using ICT equipment, such as iPads, to create exciting film content with pupils.

Attend Into Film CPD Sessions:CPD for Groups of 15+Senior Leadership Teams, Heads of Department, youth and community group leaders, library staff and local authorities can book free training events for groups of 15 or more educators working with young people aged 5–19.

CPD for Teacher Training InstitutesInto Film offers CPD to support the completion of ITT objectives for PGCE, Teach First or Schools Direct trainees. An Into Film Practitioner will work with your ITT institution to devise a series of sessions and assessment.

CPD for Individual EducatorsIf you are an individual teacher or educator who would like to attend Into Film CPD training, please visit www.intofilm.org/training.

Not yet Into Film? Joining Into Film is easy and free – go to the website to find out more and register or email cpd@intofilm.org

cpd@intofilm.org0330 313 7748

CPD 28.12.16-01

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Raising Literacy Attainment Through Film – Level One

2 hours – full day

Raising Literacy Attainment Through Film – Level Two

2 hours – full day

Raising Literacy Attainment Through Film – iPad version

3 hours – full day

Participants will be introduced to a series of tools including the 3Cs (character, colour, camera) and 3Ss (story, setting, sound), which build teachers’ ability to help their learners contextualise and decode film, learning key literacy skills such as inference, deduction and analysis which can be applied to film and other texts.

Each activity is designed to help build on a learner’s comprehension, analytical and writing skills and includes an opportunity for curriculum-focused filmmaking and extended writing. All materials for this session were created in collaboration with the BFI, Bradford Media Literacy, the Northern Ireland Creative Learning Centres, NATE and our network of specialist practitioners.

For teachers/educators who use iPads regularly in their practice. Work with a selection of apps to decode, encode, contextualise and analyse film text using the 3Cs and 3Ss framework. Each activity is designed to enable learners to make links between film and written text to develop their reading and writing skills.

This session is recommended as a natural progression for those who have attended Raising Literacy Attainment Through Film - Level One or have completed our Teaching Literacy Through Film online course. This session will introduce a range of new and exciting activities building on the 3Cs and 3Ss tools. Techniques include working with Foley sound effects to develop descriptive writing skills, analysing mise-en-scene to improve students inference and deduction skills and working with the language of camera shots as a basis for extended writing.

“Using the techniques you showed us, the children are now excited about writing. The standard of writing based on film is amazing and is much more creative than the writing children were producing before.”

Jodie Soanes, Stanningley Primary School

Leeds Improving Literacy Through Film Programme in collaboration with Into Film

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Filmmaking for Curricular Attainment

2 hours – full day

First Steps Filmmaking

180 minutes

Stop Motion Animation

2 hours – full day

Animation – Level Two

2 hours – full day

This practical session will help you to improve curricular learning, assessment and attainment through the use of filmmaking techniques. Step-by-step guidance will be provided on activities including Record and Playback, 5,4,3,2,1 filmmaking and stop-motion animation with support given on how to use a range of equipment and advice on how to adapt these techniques to suit your classroom environment, specific learners’ needs and assessment objectives.

This fun session will build educator confidence in filmmaking. Filmmaking develops not just student voice, but a range of skills including teamwork, time management, leadership, and creativity. Beginning with the analysis of film texts, the session’s activities include filmmaking and stop motion animation. Educators will be equipped with a range of strategies to increase young people’s interest and understanding of the film industry. Particularly suitable for use within film clubs, youth and community groups and library settings, as well as schools with an interest in filmmaking.

Watch, analyse and create animations. Explore narrative, planning and design through claymation, silhouette, paper cut and pixellation animation. Learn how stop-frame animations can be made in the classroom using a range of technology such as digital cameras, iPads and smart phones; and edited using a variety of programmes. The session will also examine the ways in which animation can be used as a framework for a range of curricular needs, encouraging active learning and helping raise attainment for a range of assessment objectives.

For educators who have completed a Stop Motion Animation session or have some experience of completing animations with their learners.

Build your confidence to create more sophisticated animated films through 3D set building, lighting the set, adding colour temperatures and animating the camera.

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Film Language: Editing

2 hours – full day

Learning through film: relationships, health and wellbeing

Anti-bullying

90 minutes

Particularly suitable for GCSE and A Level students of WJEC and AQA Film and Media Studies and CCEA’s Moving Image Arts, this session will examine the theory, practice and film language associated with editing. The session enables students to develop editing skills and explores key features associated with variety of editing techniques through practical exercises. Participants will receive a free copy of the PowerPoint used in the session and Film Language Prompt Cards for use in class.

Particularly suitable for teachers of PSHE, PSE, Health and Wellbeing, LLW and Citizenship, this session is designed to develop teachers’ confidence in tackling anti-bullying through film. Use film as a tool to examine appropriate behaviours through analysis of on-screen action and enable students to positively express their thoughts, voice and learning through filmmaking. This session is for educators working with 7-14 year olds.

A session for teachers and educators of 9–16 year olds. The session will introduce some tools and techniques to enable you to feel confident to use film to start the conversation about this challenging topic and develop confidence in using active film watching and filmmaking as a teaching tool in this context. The activities support learners to discuss themes, issues and questions prompted by a film text stimulus and analyse and demonstrate appropriate behaviour and action.

Film Language: Sound is the second in our series of film language sessions and is particularly suitable for GCSE and A Level students of WJEC and OCR Film and Media Studies and CCEA’s Moving Image Arts. In this theoretical and practical session, we will explore the production of different types of sound from location to Foley, as well as analysing the impact of different types of sound such as contrapuntal and non-diegetic on the audience. There will be an opportunity to participate in the creation of sound which will be used to enhance film content. Participants will be able to take away a ring-bound set of Film Language Prompt Cards for use in class, as well as the session materials used.

Staying Safe Online

90 minutesFilm Language: Sound

90 minutes – full day

For Film/Media Studies and Moving Image Arts teachers

“Got some great ideas to use in class for both literacy and music lessons”

Michelle Williams, Greenside Primary

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For Key Stage One teachers

Storymaker: The Gruffalo Edition

1 – 3 hours

This session is for teachers of 5-11 year olds, to develop confidence and a range of strategies to work with film soundtracks across the curriculum as stimulus to develop listening, discussion, analysis, reading, writing, composition and filmmaking skills. This session will provide activities and tools to encourage pupils to really listen to soundtracks, to visualise and hear sounds in film and written texts, create their own music and sounds to accompany film text and create pieces of writing using the language of sound.

This session is for educators of 11-16 year olds. The session is appropriate for school and non-school settings and provides a range of activities for active analysis of film soundtracks, including pieces from the current GCSE Music specification. The session also provides a framework and training to enable educators to work with learners to create a film soundtrack in a day, which can be stimulus for a composition piece as part of the music curriculum or equip young people with the skills required to soundtrack their own films.

This session explores how to use the Into Film iPad app ‘Storymaker: The Gruffalo Edition’ in the classroom. Suitable for educators of children aged 5-7, we will use the popular animated film, The Gruffalo, and the 3Cs and 3Ss to develop pupils’ literacy skills, such decoding, inference and creative writing. We will then use introductory-level editing skills to create and select our own new dialogue and narrative, sound effects and soundtracks to accompany scenes taken from The Gruffalo. Please note that an Into Film Club account is required for use of the app. Set up a free club today – www.intofilm.org/clubs

Music and Soundtracking

My First Riff

2 hours – full day

My Riff

Full day