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 assembly will inspire young people aged 11–14 to consider a positive future though STEM by using the film Hidden Figures and EDF Energy’s Pretty Curious programme activities to unlock their potential.
The assembly is based on the Hidden Figures trailer and EDF Energy’s Pretty Curious film. It contains information for teachers and facilitators in the notes section of the PowerPoint presentation, and can be delivered as an assembly, within tutor time or during an extracurricular club session.
This film is available to stream free at Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18857
This resource should be used with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation available at www.intofilm.org/resources/51
The activities in this resource are designed to meet curriculum objectives for film studies and media studies GCSE and A level and national and higher media. Activities include case studies for Gravity, The Hunger Games and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, opportunities to apply, discuss and critique BBFC classification considerations with student made films and behind the scenes interviews with BBFC staff.
For more information about Into Film and help setting up your free film club, visit www.intofilm.org
Anti-Bullying Week shines a spotlight on bullying and encourages all children, teachers and parents to take action against bullying throughout the year. The theme for 2017 is ‘All Different, All Equal' and aims to empower children and young people to celebrate what makes them, and others, unique.
This resource is suitable to use with young people aged 11-16 in either an extra-curricular club or classroom context. It can also be used in pastoral sessions and is linked to the PSHE Education, Citizenship, English, Art and Media Studies curricula. It consists of teachers' notes with the activity outlines, activity sheets to be used with learners and the accompanying student-facing Anti-bullying on Film: 11-16 PowerPoint presentation with embedded film clips. Alternatively, you could pick and mix the activities to use in your film club or classroom. The materials provide everything you need to run the lesson/activities with minimal preparation.
About The Anti-Bullying Alliance
Into Film is pleased to be supported by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. The Anti-Bullying Alliance, hosted by the National Children's Bureau (NCB) is a coalition of organisations and individuals united against bullying and committed to tackling all forms of bullying between children and young people. The Anti-Bullying Alliance coordinate Anti-Bullying Week each November and support schools and the wider children's workforce to challenge bullying behaviour throughout the year. To find out more about the Anti-Bullying Alliance free School and College Network and to access online training and a wealth of resources visit www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk
This educational resource aims to support the teaching of Macbeth at Secondary level for students aged 14-16 years old and supports English, English Literature, drama and film studies teaching and learning. It comprises of a PDF that includes comprehensive outlines for the five activities, stills from the film and worksheets use in the classroom and the accompanying MACBETH – Power Players PowerPoint presentation with embedded clips from the 2015 film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotilard. Students are then encouraged to make their own short film based on the themes within Macbeth as a consolidation exercise.
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This resource, produced in partnership with National Schools Partnership and Pathe, provides a lesson plan for students to work with the new British film Suffragette (12A) and collections from The Museum of London to research and discuss historical and contemporary social changers, who have, and continue to campaign for gender equality. This resource is designed to be used Suffragette, -Social Changers Lesson PowerPoint presentation and worksheets, which can be accessed at www.nationalschoolspartnership.com/suffragetteresource.php You can also access a resource and PowerPoint presentation for the Suffragette -Social Changers - assembly.
Suffragette starring Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff and Meryl Streep, opens in cinemas on 12 October.
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This resource, comprising of a Silent Shakespeare: The Tempest 1908 PowerPoint and PDF, provides a range of activities based on the 3Cs and 3Ss of film to help young people to explore this silent adaptation of the play. The activities are differentiated and are suitable for both primary and secondary students.
Activities range from analysing the film using the 3Cs and 3Ss, creating special effects on film to composing character motifs for a soundtrack.
The whole film can be viewed at the following link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tempest-silent-shakespeare-11184457
Connect your students with the heroic events surrounding Dunkirk via Christopher Nolan's action thriller, Dunkirk with our brand new resource.
Targeted at 12-16 year olds, and a perfect resource to support history, PSHE/PSE/SMSC or citizenship lessons, The Dynamo Challenge presents a series of team building challenges centred around three narrative perspectives from the air, land and sea.
You can also enter your school into The Dynamo Challenge competition. Task your students to create a group 3D art installation to commemorate the events at Dunkirk, submit a photo to competitions@intofilm.org OR tweet us @intofilm_edu and be in with a chance of the artwork being displayed at Dover Castle alongside the costumes from the film! The deadline for entries is midday on Friday 21 July 2017. Read more about the terms and conditions for entering.
Dunkirk: The Dynamo Challenge was produced by Into Film and SUPER., in partnership with Warner Brothers.
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
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This resource, for teachers of media, film and moving image arts, explores the workings of the film industry. It is organised into six key areas:
Ownership
Production
Distribution
Consumption
Technology
Regulation
This resource is designed to be used with the accompanying PowerPoint presentation at www.intofilm.org/film-industry, which contains Behind The Scenes interviews with Disney, The Third Floor and Soda Pictures.
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A resource produced in partnership with The National Schools Partnership and Fox Searchlight Pictures. This resource provides guidance and the tools students need to enter the Malala Youth Voice Filmmaking Competition, based on the new documentary film He Named Me Malala in cinemas on 6 November 2015. More resources to support an assembly and PSHE, Citizenship and English lessons are available at www.nationalschoolspartnership.com/malalayouthvoice.php. Through these resources students can explore Malala's story, the right to education and approaches to effective campaigning.
The mini filmmaking guides explain professional filmmaking techniques and provide tips to help you apply them yourself. There are also practical tasks to help you practise the techniques and further develop your understanding of filmmaking.
If you want to work through the film production process in order, you can read the guides from beginning to end. Alternatively, if you already have some knowledge, just select the mini guides you need to fill any gaps in your understanding.
Mae'r canllawiau byr creu ffilm yn esbonio'r technegau proffesiynol a ddefnyddwyd yn yr diwydiant ac yn darparu awgrymiadau i'ch helpu i greu eich hymdrechion eu hunain. Mae yna hefyd tasgau ymarferol i'ch helpu chi i ymarfer y technegau a datblygu ymhellach eich dealltwriaeth o'r byd ffilm.
Os ydych am weithio drwy'r broses gynhyrchu ffilm mewn trefn, gallwch ddarllen y canllawiau o'r dechrau i'r diwedd. Fel arall, os oes gennych rywfaint o wybodaeth yn barod, dewiswch y ddogfen perthnasol i unrhyw fylchau yn eich dealltwriaeth.
This resource reinforces the importance of good quality sound when making short films. It provides a summary of the different types of sound that can be used in film with tips on creating original sound effects.
The guide is recommended for young people aged 13 to 19 for them to engage with filmmaking directly and without the support of an adult.
This resource forms part of a collection of mini filmmaking guides for young people covering the key aspects of the five stages of film production.
Mae’r adnodd yma’n atgyfnerthu pwysigrwydd sain da mewn ffilm fer. Mae’n rhoi crynodeb o wahanol fathau o sain sy’n gallu cael eu defnyddio mewn ffilm gydag awgrymiadau ar sut i greu effeithiau sain gwreiddiol.
Awgrymir defnyddio’r canllaw yma gyda phobl ifanc rhwng 13 a 19 oed i’w hymgysylltu â chreu ffilmiau uniongyrchol a heb gymorth oedolyn.
Mae'r adnodd hwn yn rhan o gasgliad o ganllawiau ffilmiau ar gyfer pobl ifanc, sy'n edrych ar bump cam allweddol o gynhyrchu ffilm.
Into Film interviewed both director Lenny Abrahamson and actor Domhnall Gleeson for a podcast in advance of The Little Stranger’s theatrical release (21 September). We asked them a wide variety of questions about their approach to the film, its characters, and its themes, designed specifically to support English Literature teachers using* The Little Stranger in the classroom. With comparisons to books and films including The Innocents, Rebecca, Great Expectations and The Beguiled, the text sits on the Edexcel English Literature A Level specification alongside other gothic fiction such as* Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Adapted from the 2009 Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by celebrated author Sarah Waters,The Little Stranger is a darkly mysterious drama directed by Oscar nominee, Lenny Abrahamson (Room), and starring cross-generational British/Irish talent including Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Charlotte Rampling and Ruth Wilson.
The Little Stranger tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked.
The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, but it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.
For more information about this film and for information on how to start an Into Film club are available at www.intofilm.org.
Into Film’s series of Industry Visits, which brings film industry talent into schools across the UK, saw Veronika Hyks, Head of Audio Description at BTI Studios, visiting young people at Lent Rise Primary School in Slough. Audio description (AD) is the verbal description of film images to support the experience of visually impaired audiences.
Creating AD narratives provides a wonderful opportunity for descriptive writing in the classroom or as part of an Into Film Club. Using literacy techniques during a practical workshop, Veronika encouraged the children at Lent Primary to encourage them to write their own descriptions, using a clip from Disney’s Frozen.
Keeping their eyes closed, the children were asked to listen to the dialogue and sounds used in the clip, and imagined what the experience might be like to someone who is visually impaired. They then had a go at writing their own audio descriptions, using descriptive words and thinking about how tense could be used. Veronika tasked the children with reading their own descriptions out loud alongside the clip, helping them to think about rhythm and pace, and using the sounds and dialogue to bring the clip to life. Watch the video above to see how they got on, and to hear Veronika discuss audio-description in her own words.
Visit www.intofilm,org for details on how to start an Into Film Club for resources, exclusive industry careers advice and more.
Looking for a fun Christmas activity for your Into Film Club? Why not try our festive quiz and share your scores to be in with a chance to win a prize?
To start your own Into Film Club, please visit https://www.intofilm.org/clubs
The Breadwinner: Raise Your Words celebrates the power of storytelling that rests at the heart of this life-affirming tale and
coincides with the UK release of The Breadwinner in UK cinemas (May 25). Activities support and encourage students to develop an understanding of their place in the world and gives them the opportunity to develop their descriptive writing skills.
This resource is suitable for students aged 11–14. It has been created in partnership with STUDIOCANAL and links to the English, Citizenship and PSHE curriculum in the UK.
This film is available to stream for free on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/19211
This resource is designed to be delivered over several club sessions to support the viewing of the film Paddington 2. You can either use all of the suggested activities or cherry-pick the ones that best suit your group and the time you have available. Alternatively, it could be viewed during class-time to support literacy or PSHE lessons.
This film is now available to stream for free at Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/19013
Explore Hamlet with this creative workbook that helps students to analyse the play based on the Shakespeare: The Animated Tales adaptation of the play through the 3Cs (character, camera, colour) and 3Ss (story, setting, sound). This resource is suitable for students aged 7 plus and the teachers' notes includes extension activities.
For information on how to start a free Into Film club and to order this DVD for free, please visit http://www.intofilm.org/schools-film-clubs
Diversity on film is a key topic in the film industry and this assembly is aimed at helping young people to discuss the representation of female characters on film using the Bechdel test as a framework. The Bechdel test is used in this assembly as a fun way of analysing how women are represented on film, and starting a conversation about whether this is fair. Young people will apply the Bechdel test to clips from popular films before discussing how films break with tradition.
The extension activities will allow children to explore the issues presented in the assembly in a creative manner. The resource is suitable to be used in an assembly format, in a film club setting or for use in the classroom
Explore Romeo and Juliet with this creative workbook that helps students to analyse the play based on the Shakespeare: The Animated Tales adaptation of the play through the 3Cs (character, camera, colour) and 3Ss (story, setting, sound). This resource is suitable for students aged 7 plus and the teachers' notes includes extension activities.
For information on howto start a free Into Film club and to order this DVD for free, please visit http://www.intofilm.org/schools-film-clubs