scholarly journals Moving beyond the ‘shot-type list’ towards the ‘Meaning Model’: Placing meaning at the centre of film education

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-230
Author(s):  
Marc Barrett

In 1990 Kress and Van Leeuwen’s Reading Images began a conversation based upon the practice of teaching image-orientated texts in Australian classrooms. Since then, however, little of this important conversation has been translated into meaningful pedagogical change for the teaching of kineikonic (moving image) texts in Australia. From state-run primary schools to national postgraduate film education institutions, the primary tool used to initiate students into the potential to create meaning through film – the shot-type list – has remained relatively unchanged. This article proposes an updated pedagogical tool – identified as the ‘Meaning Model’ – which draws from contemporary discourses around how films make meaning in seeking to bring understandings of the kineikonic mode into the classroom, in a practical and accessible way.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Listyani Riyanto ◽  
Baskoro Adi Wuryanto ◽  
Perdana Kartawiyudha

Filmmaker dituntut untuk bisa mengubah cerita dari bentuk tulisan menjadi gambar bergerak. Kemampuan visual storytelling ini menuntut filmmaker untuk bisa mentransfer imajinasi cerita (sinopsis-teks) menjadi skenario (visual yang tertulis), serta mentransfer skenario menjadi storyboard (gambar-visual). Untuk itu, filmmaker seyogyanya memahami penulisan scenario dan kaidah-kaidahnya sehingga bisa menuangkan cerita dengan baik. Selain itu, filmmaker juga harus memahami bahasa visual yang ditawarkan oleh sinematografi seperti fungsi shot type, komposisi dan rule of third. Filmmaker seringkali mengalami kendala dalam memvisualkan cerita dari sinopsis sampai storyboard (text to visual). Oleh sebab itu, penelitian ini dibuat untuk mengetahui masalah dalam proses ini. Penelitian ini terdiri dari dua tahap. Tahap 1: (i) Mencari teori awal: studi pustaka dan identifikasi masalah (ii) penentuan elemen dan standar analisis, (iii) mengumpulkan data dengan mengidentifikasi masalah yang terjadi dalam proses transfer. Tahap 2: (i) menganalisis sinopsis, skenario dan storyboard. (ii) mengkonfirmasi hasil analisis melalui wawancara dengan penulis skenario, sutradara dan sinematografer. (ii) merangkum temuan dan analisis serta menuliskannya dalam jurnal. Kata kunci: produksi film, text to visual, sinopsis, skenario, storyboard


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Mistry

This paper considers what decolonizing film education might mean through a series of research initiatives undertaken across different cultures which explore social media platforms for creating moving image sequences. The paper attends to three factors in the current climate of education: the accessibility of the medium, its immediacy in dissemination, and the democratizing effect that these conditions have had on the medium of film. Working with these three conditions in contemporary film education, the case studies described include workshops that aimed to shift the curriculum from film canons to proposing the introduction of concepts. Furthermore, elided histories are explored through site-specific projects that show how decolonial processes allow these histories to be reclaimed in film practice, and for marginal subjectivities to be made visible. Finally, the proposal of decolonial processes seeks to work with creating opportunities for social and historical visibilities. The proposition is to work with film(ed) evidence as material connected to broader social justice issues that are expressed through aesthetic forms closely associated with decolonial processes and described as decolonial aesthesis.


2019 ◽  

In Scotland, the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) provides education practitioners with the opportunity for transformational change through the delivery of a holistic, broad and general education. This paper explores the extent to which play can be used as a pedagogical tool in developing the capabilities of children to realise the ambitions of CfE. The focus here is four of the ten core capabilities identified by Martha Nussbaum in her version of the Capabilities Approach; one of which is play, the others being those with which it is intrinsically linked, i.e. affiliation, ‘senses, imagination and thought’, and ‘practical reason’. This conceptual analysis of play, autonomy and the Capabilities Approach constitutes a theoretical case for playful approaches in all stages of Scottish primary schools. It is argued that this would provide opportunities for human flourishing in the context of the CfE.


2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Wendy Earle ◽  
David Sharp

The British Film Institute has always tried to balance its role as a repository of moving image collections and their associated materials with encouraging their study and understanding. This article looks at the increasing opportunities for providing access to material in educational and library contexts, as well as giving an overview of the library.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Arnaouti

This article explores a film education project conducted on an extra-curricular after-school basis in a Greek secondary school in Tampouria, Piraeus. A documentary-making project exploring the area around the school was realized by a group of ten 15-year-old students under the supervision of their English teacher/researcher. The following case study explores how aspects of the students’ cultural taste and identity were expressed through this moving image literacy project, carried out in a foreign language. Various forms of data – observation, textual and audiovisual – are analysed within a social semiotic framework. The article seeks to demonstrate how the students’ cultural taste was formed by different kinds of global and local influences, and how aspects of their multifaceted identities were revealed during the documentary-making process, and expressed through the creation of media texts within a context of Greek education.


This particular study is conducted to find out the purposes of teachers' codeswitching in the primary schools, the perceptions of teachers toward using students’ first language in the classrooms, and the amount of the usage of codeswitching in primary schools. A total number of 82 primary school English language teachers from the Johor Bahru state of Malaysia took part in this study. In order to collect comprehensive data from the participants, the researcher applied a mixed-method design. Quantitative data was collected through the Google Form questionnaire, which was sent to the teachers via WhatsApp, and Qualitative data was collected through interviews with five English language teachers of primary schools. The analysis of both types of data showed that the teachers use students’ L1 for three purposes, pedagogical, administrative, and interactional, but mainly students’ L1 was utilized as a pedagogical tool to facilitate language learning and as an administrative strategy to create a less threatening and learner-friendly environment. The results of the study also indicated that the majority of the teachers in the primary schools of Johor switch to students’ L1 to accommodate low proficiency learners and explain difficult concepts such as grammar and vocabulary to the learners. Eighty percent of the participant agreed to minimize the use of L1 in second language learning classrooms.


Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary Bazalgette

This paper traces key features of the BFI’s evolving strategies for film education in UK schools during the final 25 years of the analogue era. Historically, the BFI did much to establish the characteristics of film study, but it also embodied tensions which have continued to preoccupy educators, such as the relationship between the instrumental use of film to support the curriculum, and learning about its intrinsic and distinctive qualities as a medium, or about its ideological function in society. The paper also addresses the question of whether «film» on its own constitutes a valid area of study, or whether it is more properly studied alongside television as part of «moving image media». The BFI has played a key role in exploring these issues and in exemplifying how film, or moving image media, can be taught to younger learners, but the internal vicissitudes it has constantly experienced have always pulled its educational activities in different directions. The central argument of this paper is that film education –and indeed media education in general– should be an entitlement for every learner, not something offered only to a minority or provided as an optional extra. The key projects described in this paper indicate some of the ways in which a publicly funded cultural institution can intervene in educational policy and practice. En este artículo se plantean los elementos clave de las estrategias de educación en el cine llevadas a cabo por el Instituto Británico del Cine (BFI) en las escuelas británicas durante los veinticinco últimos años de la era analógica. Desde siempre, el BFI se ha implicado de forma activa en el diseño de los planes de estudio de cine, así como en todo lo que de algún modo suscitó preocupación entre los educadores, como fue el caso de la apuesta, de un lado, por el uso instrumental del cine para apoyar el plan curricular y el aprendizaje de las cualidades intrínsecas y distintivas del cine como mediador y, de otro lado, la apuesta por su función ideológica en la sociedad. También se aborda en este artículo la cuestión de si el cine en sí mismo constituye un área de estudio o si sería más adecuado incluirlo en el ámbito de la televisión como parte de los medios de imagen en movimiento. El BFI ha desempeñado un papel crucial en la investigación de estos interrogantes, así como en la demostración y ejemplificación de la enseñanza del cine destinada a los jóvenes. No obstante, las continuas vicisitudes que han surgido en este tiempo han orientado las perspectivas educativas en diferentes direcciones. La tesis central de este artículo es demostrar que la educación en el cine, aplicable a todos los medios de comunicación en general, debe ser un derecho accesible a todos los estudiantes, y no quedar reducido a una minoría o presentado como una posible opción. Los proyectos clave que se detallan a continuación en este artículo orientan sobre algunos procedimientos destinados a que las instituciones culturales subvencionadas con dinero público puedan intervenir en la política educativa y en su implantación.


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