Into Film is an education organisation providing a unified UK-wide offer for learning through and about film. It is supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) through Lottery funding and its programme includes delivery of the BFI 5-19 education scheme. Into Film's resources range from film discussion guides, to curriculum linked worksheets, lesson plans and presentations. Our resources are tailored to fit the curriculum criteria of each nation, supporting learning outcomes.
Into Film is an education organisation providing a unified UK-wide offer for learning through and about film. It is supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) through Lottery funding and its programme includes delivery of the BFI 5-19 education scheme. Into Film's resources range from film discussion guides, to curriculum linked worksheets, lesson plans and presentations. Our resources are tailored to fit the curriculum criteria of each nation, supporting learning outcomes.
This resource immerses the class in the world of Disney’s Moana 2 using
sounds and music as stimuli to learn about the main characters in the film
and allow learners to demonstrate and develop their musical abilities using
collaborative, creative and fun activities while drawing on rhythmic concepts
and styles.
With links to both the music and KS1 maths curriculums, the Bring the Beat
activity sheet first guides learners through the profiles of the characters,
who have been assigned a particular musical sound, which can be
recreated through body percussion.
Learners then work individually to decode a pattern of character images on
the activity sheet into a series of sounds, creating a musical sequence that
can be performed to the class. In addition, they can identify and extend the
pattern of sounds in each sequence.
Working in groups where appropriate, learners also devise their own
musical key with a new set of images and corresponding sounds, allowing
them to make a new musical sequence and create their own repeating body
percussion pattern. This can then be performed to the class as they try to
guess what sound comes next in the sequence.
This learning sequence will immerse your class in a world of pure
imagination as learners are tasked with planning and pitching
their very own marvellous creations to catch the eye of
Willy Wonka himself!
This resource brings together skills and learning objectives
across art, design and technology, maths and English, as well
as elements of science and nutrition. From the packaging to the
promotional materials, learners will need to develop, design and
pitch their ideas for a new, extraordinary chocolate bar.
Learners will also be encouraged to think about who they would
like to share a special chocolate bar with, and why, in our creative
writing competition, ‘Who Would You Share It With?’.
The lesson sequence can be extended with a range of activities
which can be completed in the classroom or as home-learning;
these include the My Scrummy Yummy Chocolate activity, Role
on the Wall and Working with Wonka.
A film guide that looks at McQueen (2018), a documentary about the life and work of celebrated fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
This guide is useful for exploring topics including Art and Design, Media Studies, Theatre Studies and Psychology in addition to highlighting themes surrounding fashion, music, addictions, food and health, mental health, fame and consumerism, LGBT issues, and British cinema.
Our Story Builder resource is aimed at pupils aged 7-11, and enables learners to develop their understanding of the basic building blocks of film - the 3Cs and 3Ss of film, colour, character, camera, story, sound and setting - to create imaginative narratives of their own. They will be able to use our interactive workbook to plan their own films stage by stage.
Each engaging and accessible element of the resource can be used as a stand-alone activity, or combined, so that learners can plan or make a film composed entirely of their own ideas. The resource allows pupils to work alone or collaboratively to develop characters, build their story arc, decide on settings and even design their very own film posters.
Story Builder engages with the curriculum seamlessly, harnessing the unlimited creative talent of young people. There are countless stories in the world, all waiting to be told - help your pupils to tell theirs.
“As a teacher it is heartening to see children so engaged with their imaginations when completing the Story Builder tasks and creating their own unique story”
- Bernadette Boyle, Primary School Teacher
Art Direction: Cultivating Creative Vision Through Art and Design
Are you an Art or English teacher? Frame your next creative lesson through the role of an Art Director, as pupils design a room for their favourite film or book character. Introduce this task by bringing out the hidden detective in your pupils, by challenging them to examine a film still of your choice. As well as developing learners’ powers of deduction, we focus their attention on the importance of visual design in films and in meaning-making.
This resource is aimed for use with pupils aged 7-14 and designed for flexible delivery in a variety of contexts: in subject-specific lessons, specific careers lessons, or during an Into Film Club.
**Download the free resource to inspire your pupils and help broaden their understanding of future job roles available to them. **
The short films included in the resource have been licenced by Into Film for educational use only. Please do not share any links, clips, or passwords externally.
For more resources on using film and filmmaking in educational settings and to set up an Into Film Club, please visit the Into Film website: www.intofilm.org/clubs
This resource is for use with young people aged 7 and over, to showcase and celebrate animation talent from across the African continent and beyond. Starting with the godfather of African animation, Moustapha Alassane, across Ethiopia, Senegal, South African and Ghana this resource shines a light on emerging animators and established studios. Your learners will watch a range of different animation styles from stop motion animation shorts through to computer-generated feature films before decoding key clips using the 3Cs and 3Ss of film and participating in a filmmaking activity inspired by
each film. There are extension activities for each section as well that further extend young people’s learning.
The accompanying** Animating Africa PowerPoint presentation** includes embedded clips to show to your group. There is an accompanying document with curriculum links for all nations and regions. This resource is suitable for use in a film club setting or in a classroom to support topic work.
Suitable for students aged 7–11, this resource offers pupils an introduction to India though the themes of food, dress and Diwali. This resource is designed for use in the primary classroom and supports learning in Art and Design, Religious Education, Geography and English/Literacy. This educational resource is based around a range of film extracts available free on the BFI Player, through BBC Educational webpages and from Into Film. The film extracts are from a range of genres including; educational videos, archive footage and feature film.
You can download the accompanying materials Introduction to India PowerPoint Presentation, related worksheets and separate curriculum links document.
Brought to you in partnership with Warner Bros and SUPER., this new cross-curricular resource challenges students to master their inner power and become the Seventh Master of NINJAGO, just like the characters in the upcoming cinema release of The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie on October 13, and The LEGO® NINJAGO Movie Video Game out October 6.
Inspired by Spinjitzu, the martial arts infused movements used by the characters of NINJAGO, pupils will use a gentle and dynamic sequence of motions to meet creative literacy outcomes. In-class and homework activities are grouped around the six Masters and their elements Green Energy, Water, Lightning, Fire, Earth and Ice. Each lesson and accompanying homework activity will result in a new page of their very own comic book.
This resource supports physical education (PE), English, PSHE, citizenship and art and design across Key Stage 2 (England, Northern Ireland, Wales) and Second Level (Scotland).
Download the accompanying activity sheets and PowerPoint presentations at https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1350.
Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org/clubs
During the course of the film Moana finds her true path in life. In this resource, based on Disney’s Moana, young people will immerse themselves into the world of the film in order to explore the themes of identify and self-discovery, to ultimately create their own wayfinding map.
Suitable for young people aged 7-11, the activities can be cherry-picked by teachers or leaders for use in an Into Film Club, or if you wish, the classroom, with connections to English/literacy, PSHE education, and Art and Design across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Learning objectives and curriculum links are available as a guide only, should you wish to refer to them, but this may not be necessary for your club setting.
These Leaders’ notes are designed to be used in conjunction with the accompanying materials: Moana: Finding Your Way in the World PowerPoint presentation available from the Into Film website at the following link: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1294
This film is now available to stream free on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18741
This educational cross-curricular resource based on the 2016 Disney film The Jungle Book includes a selection of activities that have been designed for teachers to cherry-pick in their classrooms.
This resource consists of three activities, a PowerPoint presentation with embedded clips and an accompanying booklet with worksheets. Each activity has an extension task that you that you can use to extend the session, challenge your more able pupils or as a homework task.
This film is now available to stream free at Into Film+
https://www.intofilm.org/films/18656
This film-focused resource enables teachers and pupils to explore what it means to be part of the Commonwealth, gaining insights into the culture and identity of Commonwealth countries and reflecting on life in the UK. The activities centre on four carefully chosen films from across the Commonwealth that will engage and excite pupils in exploring key themes -Whale Rider, Fly Away Home, Like Stars on Earth and Paper Planes.
The resource has been designed to work across a range of subjects, these activities enable pupils to develop a range of skills and the curriculum areas of English and literacy, citizenship, wellbeing and PSHE, art and design and geography.
This resource encourages pupils to explore and reflect on how the identity of people and places is represented on film, as well as looking at young people’s voice and the different strategies communities use to organise and motivate change. The activities centre on four carefully chosen films from different countries that will engage and excite pupils by exploring key themes: Brave; Kirikou And The Men And The Women; Song of the Sea and Into Film Award-winning pupil-made short film Political Animals. The accompanying PowerPoint presentation including clips from the film can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/1052.
This resource has been designed to work across a range of subjects, with activities enabling pupils to develop a range of skills. The curriculum areas include English and literacy, Art and design, wellbeing, PSHE, PSE and PDMU; geography and music.
In view of the Turner Prize being held in Glasgow in 2015, this resource has been created to help students explore art in film and filmmaking as art. It celebrates the Turner Prize by encouraging young people to explore contemporary artists, offering stimulus for young people’s creation of art using film, animation and video installations. The activities and frameworks provide a springboard for young people to develop their own self-expression through their artwork, including the production of their own experimental film, with opportunities for students to record their responses throughout.
Related content can be found here www.intofilm.org/film-as-art
To start your free Into Film club visit www.intofilm.org/clubs
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Celebrate Roald Dahl Day (13th September) with a resource exploring some of the author's best stories on film. The Roald Dahl on Film PDF contains teachers' notes, activity outlines, film information and worksheets for Primary pupils across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It has been designed to be accompanied by the PowerPoint presentation, which features film clips from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and more. An interactive minibeasts quiz to complement the James and the Giant Peach section can also be downloaded here.
Related content can be found at www.intofilm.org/roald-dahl
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To celebrate Roald Dahl Day, Into Film has produced this assembly which looks at the author's birthday on 13th September and his beloved story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (voted by you as the number one fiction book all children should read before leaving Primary school!). The PowerPoint presentation contains teacher notes, embedded film clips, questions and stimulus for a whole school activity.
More Roald Dahl on Film resources can be found at www.intofilm.org/roald-dahl
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For National Careers Week (7 - 11 March 2016), download this new careers resource for Primary pupils, which will help stimulate discussion and interest in a variety of different types of jobs within the film industry.
These teachers' notes are designed to be used in conjunction with the PowerPoint presentation, curriculum links and interactive quiz also available to download here.
The resource contains: embedded film clips; activities exploring jobs such as make-up designer, foley artist (creating sound effects) and costume designer; and encourages pupils to consider how their own skill sets can be harnessed to aspire to a rich career in films.
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The second of the Shaun the Sheep The Movie Green Light to Opening Night films is accompanied by this resource that helps young people to understand how to make their own stop-frame animation. Use the Teachers’ Notes alongside the short film where Young Reporter Jess visits Aardman Animations Studio to find out the secrets to making movies. The film is available on the Into Film website at the following link: https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/behind-the-scenes-shaun-the-sheep-movie
For information on how to start a free Into Film club please visit https://www.intofilm.org/clubs
Or go to https://www.intofilm.org/resources to view more of our curriculum focused resources.
This film is now available to stream free at Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18592
This Into Film resource provides an introduction to stop-motion animation, detailing the history of the technique, as well as guidance on how to create your own stop motion films. Styles included use silhouettes, paper cut outs and modelling clay, with activity sheets and cut-out materials also provided for an interactive historical understanding of inventions such as the zoetrope and thaumatrope. More information can be found at www.intofilm.org/resources/200. To find out more about Into Film and start an Into Film Club visit: www.intofilm.org/clubs.
Take your pupils on a summer adventure with Earth to Echo – a creative way for supporting the primary to secondary transition. The resource aims to capture the memories and the Lessons and Classroom Activities encourage pupils to value their friendships through scrapbooking, school year books and filmmaking activities! To receive your physical competition pack and entry forms, please register at http://www.nationalschoolspartnership.com/echo.php. Find out more about Into Film and start a film club in your school for free at: www.intofilm.org
Creating Movie Magic Secondary is an innovative educational resource that offers students the chance to craft their own magic movie moments. They will learn about basic special effects, the importance and value of creativity and how D&T skills can lead to exciting careers. It offers teachers a new approach to teaching D&T and helps students understand the importance of IP to creativity. This resource is from Into Film and Industry Trust (supported by Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Cinema First).
Visit the Into Film resources website in order to download the accompanying PowerPoint presentation with embedded clips https://www.intofilm.org/resources/293