1. Teaching Film
Karen Yager – UNSW & Knox Grammar School

2. Stage 4 Outcomes
Outcome 1: A student responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure.
Outcome 2: A student uses a range of processes for responding to and composing texts.
A student uses and describes language forms and features, and structures of texts appropriate to different purposes, audiences and contexts.(4.8: in visual texts: medium, organisation, colour, layout, perspective, focus, camera angles and editing)
Outcome 6: A student draws on experience, information and ideas to imaginatively and interpretively respond to and compose texts.
Outcome 8: A student makes connections between and among texts.
Outcome 9: A student demonstrates understanding that texts express views of their broadening world and their relationships within it. (9.10: narrative techniques in film-making and in the media, including their use in news and current affairs reporting and 9.11: film and media techniques used in representing people, places and events.)

3. Culture of learning What do I want my students to learn?
Why does it matter?
What do they already know?
How will they demonstrate learning?
How will they get there?
How well do I expect them to do it?

4. Film as Text Close or critical study Visual link to a concept or theme
Creating
Auteur
Book or film trailer
Stimulus for writing
Documentaries
Transformation

5. Analysis Explicitly teach film techniques Act of representation
Characterisation
Connections through themes or ideas
Contextualisation

6. Strategies Picture books and posters to introduce visual techniques
Short films and trailers
Mise-en-scene
Sound off
Group or individual tasks focussed on an aspect of the film
Jigsaw or cafes

7. Assessment
Creativity: Creating a storyboard or film script -
Film: Moviemaker, iMovie or Final Cut Pro
Comics:
Comic life:
Toondoo:

8. Suggested Films Stage 4 Stage 5 The Black Balloon
Anime: Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Birthday Bird
Fantasy: Harry Potter films, Never Ending Story, The Princess Bride, Tangled, Ever After, Willow, Labyrinth, Alice in Wonderland
Babe
Mulan
Bend it Like Beckham
E.T.
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Secret of Roan Inish
The Secret Garden
Bridge to Terabithia
Whale Rider
Nim’s Island
Iron Giant
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Coralline
Lemony Snickett: A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Black Balloon
The Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
The Fifth Element
Edward Scissorhands
Brassed Off
Stand By Me
Holes
A Knight’s Tale
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
Big Fish
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
October Sky

9. Resources Vancouver Film School
Australian Screen or Film Australia:

10. Subjective Frame Personal Response: How do I respond to this image?
What do you feel?
What does it remind you of?
What is the composer conveying in this image about the subject and the times?

11. Structural Frame Techniques: How does the film make meaning?
Visual techniques
Framing
Composition
Salience
Gaze
Vectors
Demand and Offer
Medium of production

12. Cultural Frame
Context: How would this image have been received, and how does it reflect its times?
Historical: When and where?
Cultural:
Political
Social
Responder’s context
Impact on Meaning?

13. Positioning of responder
Critical Frame
Representation: How could this image be read?
Gaps and silences
Manipulation of image
Positioning of responder