1. Picturacy Film Narrative and The Primary Framework
Julie Green
Film Education

2. Film and the Primary Framework for Literacy
The narrative and non-fiction units within the
renewed Framework encompass both paper and
on-screen texts and are intended to cover the
full range of texts envisaged within the National
Curriculum for English.

3. Film and the Primary Framework for Literacy
For example;
Year 4 Non-fiction - Unit 4
Persuasive Texts
Watch a trailer for a popular children's film. Discuss how
the soundtrack, sound effects, voice-over and moving
images were used. Demonstrate how to combine words,
music and images (to engage an audience).

4. Film and the Primary Framework for Literacy
Year 5 Narrative - Unit 5
Film Narrative
Use key points in a film to discuss features and themes. Explore approaches
made by the filmmaker to create moods, pace and viewpoint. Develop
children's film language by identifying how colour, light, sound and camera
angles have been used to tell the narrative...
Children work as part of a group to use drama strategies to explore
characters in depth.
Develop a storyboard for a narrative by capturing and importing key images
into a presentation program. Children write their own version of a narrative,
organising writing into paragraphs, and create a multimodal presentation of
this version including images, voice-over, soundtrack and written text.

5. Learning Objectives linked to Film Narrative
Y3: Identify how texts are organised on screen
Y3: Identify features that writers use to provoke reactions

6. Year 4 Compare the different contributions of music, words and images
Explore the use of figurative and expressive language to create images and atmosphere
Combine words and images and other features for particular effects

7. Year 5
Infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and what is implied
Use a range of ICT programs to present texts, making informed choices of which electronic tools to use for different purposes

8. Year 6
Consider the overall impact of a recorded performance, identifying dramatic ways of conveying characters’ ideas and building tension
Understand underlying themes
Integrate words, images and sounds imaginatively

9. Assessing Pupil Progress
Picturacy™ gives opportunities for assessment by revisiting a genre in literacy through film work
Using the resource as a stimulus provides firm evidence of independence and consistency in pupil attainment without the teacher scaffolding given assessment focus points

10. For example: APP in Writing and Film Narrative
Primary Framework strands and Assessment Focuses:
Strand 9 – AFs1, 2 & 7: dealing with aspects of composition and effect
Strand 10 – Afs 3 & 4: dealing with aspects of structure and organisation
Strand 11: Afs 5 & 6: dealing with aspects of sentence work and punctution

11. Word - sentence - text (Literacy) Shot - sequence - text (Picturacy)
‘The places here were laid with gold, not silver, and the 14 seats were not oak benches but mahogany chairs with velvet cushions.’
The Northern Lights, Philip Pullman

12. Actively reading film
Improves reading and enjoyment of all texts
Knowledge and understanding of filmmaking so pupils can develop skills as filmmakers

13. From screen to page
Deeper understanding of genre, narrative, character, audience…
Allows comparison of composition and effect in film and writing

14. CHARACTER SETTING MOOD PACE VIEWPOINT PASSING OF TIME/ FLASHBACKS FILM
WRITING
CHARACTER
SETTING
MOOD
PACE
VIEWPOINT
PASSING OF TIME/
FLASHBACKS

15. Direct and reported speech Verbs and adverbs Descriptive language
FILM
WRITING
CHARACTER
Acting and dialogue
Use of camera
Costume and make up
Direct and reported speech
Verbs and adverbs
Descriptive language
SETTING
Set design
Special effects
Figurative language
MOOD
Light and colour
Music and sound
PACE
Editing - Transitions
Length of shots
Sequence of shots/scenes
Sentence length/structure Paragraphs and chapters
Vocabulary
VIEWPOINT
Voiceover narration
1st and 3rd person narration
PASSING OF TIME/
FLASHBACKS
Editing
Tense
Time connectives
Paragraphs and chapters

16. Camera
How are the effects of these shot types achieved in writing?

17. Camera
How are the effects of these shot types achieved in writing?

18. Camera
How are the effects of these shot types achieved in writing?

20. Task /25 mins
You are going to tell your own version of a scene’s narrative.
Choose 12 key images from the clip ‘First time I had ever seen a fox so close’ (The Fox and the Child, Jacquet 2007). Pause the video at each chosen moment and create a screen grab. This is harder than you think!
Sequence your screen grabs into a storyboard. Empty the screen grab bank of any images you don’t need
Use the first image with Bubbles to add speech and/or thoughts as well a text box with a couple of sentences. Use punctuation with speech and powerful verbs and adverbs in text boxes. Create a new screen grab of the finished image.
Repeat 3 for each image in turn and create a new storyboard from your screen grab bank
Each pair read another pair’s finished work.

21. Task 2 - 40/45 mins Meanwhile…
You play the parents (or aunts/uncles) of the child. You
are discussing her behaviour at home, one of you thinks her relationship with the fox is a positive thing, the other is worried that she is becoming obsessed and that humans cannot form relationships with wild animals. The discussion turns into an argument which is brought abruptly to an end when you see the girl coming towards the house in the distance. She is covered in blood…

22. Task 2 With your narrative you need to:
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the different shot types and their effect.
Establish character visually and by using speech and thought bubbles
Use text boxes to add a sentence or two to accompany each frame. Use time connectives, powerful verbs and adverbs etc.

23. Task 2 - 45 mins Pairs into fours
Plan - sketch a storyboard. 12 frames max (10 mins)
Off to take photos. Back in 15 mins
Back into pairs
Import photos onto laptops and then into Picturacy
Add bubbles, text boxes, adjust light and colour etc.
Make screen grabs of each final image
Sequence in a storyboard
Pairs swap laptops to read the others’ narrative.

24. Tips
The 180 degree rule Shot reverse shot