MOTION PICTURES/FILM STUDY
© 2006 Frank Baker, Media Educator
Books to help you teach film
- Action: An Adventure in Movie Making (exhibit website)
- AdmitOne (teaching young people the process of film making)
- After Viewing: Reflections on Responding to Films in the Classroom
- American Film Institute (see also above: Lights, Cameras, Education)
- Analyzing a Film Extract (pdf)
- Analyzing and Evaluating Films as Works of Art
- Basic Teaching Techniques for Moving Images
- Basics of How To Read A Film
- Be Your Own Movie Critic
- Best Music In Film BFI
- Checklist for Analyzing Movies
- Cineliteracy: The Rule of Thirds
- Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made?
- Cinematters (helping families have fun with film)
- Create a Soundtrack – Use software to create your own film music
- Creating book trailers
- Cultural codes in non-fiction films
- CyberFilmSchool.com
- Deconstructing Harry Potter; Activity
- Director in The Classroom
- Disney in the Classroom
- Edison The Invention of The Movies (DVD)
- Editing and representation
- Exploring Language Moving Images
- Film Analysis Guide
- Film Analysis: Production & Story Elements
- Film And Audience
- Film As Text (why teach film? Blade Runner)
- Film Clips Online (character education)
- Film Editing
- Film Education
- Film Form and Analysis (Sparknotes) includes cinematography; sound/editing; narrative
- Film Glossary
- Film Language Booklet
- Filmmaking and animation teaching resources (UK)
- Film (media) literacy
- FilmScriptWriting.com
- Film Street (Primary, UK)
- Film Study Guides
- FILM Film study guides
- Film Term Glossary
- Film Terminology
- Film Trailer as Persuasive Text (activity)
- Film: Who Does What When In The Film Industry(worksheet)
- Film Why Does It Matter? (IQ Magazine)
- Find it in film
- F.I.R.M. Film Industry Reform Movement
- Focus questions for film viewing
- From Novel to Film:
The Red Badge of Courage
From The Earth to the Moon
Ivanhoe
Little Women
Madame Bovary
The Fountainhead
The Maltese Falcon
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Grammar of Film: Type of Shots
- Grammar of TV & Film see also link
- Graphic Novels are Hollywood’s Newest Gold Mine
- Group Questions for Viewing Film
- Guide to Film Research
- Guide to Writing About Film
- Handout: How to Read A Film
- High school film teachers aim to reel in their students
- History of The American Cinema
- Hollywood Science
- How Film Works (how films get projected onto a screen)
- How History is Depicted In Film
- How moviemakers techniques make us believe (Titanic)
- How to analyze a movie
- How to analyze a scene in a film
- How To Design A Movie Poster
- How to Read a Film (chapters from the book)
- How to “read” a film
- How To Read A Movie (Roger Ebert)
- How To Watch A Movie (Moviemaker)
- How We (Pixar) Make A Movie
- Introduction to Animation
- Introduction to Cinematography
- Intro to Cinema Literacy 101: Viewing and Watching Films Critically
- Introduction to Film Editing
- Journeys Into Film (Educating for Global Understanding)
- Language of Film (Pacific Cinémathèque)
- Language of film analysis (cameras, editing)
- The Language of movies
- Lighting, Colour, Music: A Study of Film Elements
- Lights Camera Molly A Behind-The-Scenes Movie Guide
- Lights, Cameras..Brainstorming: Writing About Film
- Listen up – The role of music in film
- Looking At Movies: An Introduction To Film
- M3 Marketing Movie Madness
- The Magic of Movies (Making Movies, The Art of Film, Technique of Film)
- Make Your Own Mark In Film (UK)
- Making Movies: A Guide for Young Filmmakers
- Making Movies In The Classroom (Elementary, Scholastic)
- Making Movies Make Sense (Understanding and using film language)
- Makingof.com: Your Behind-the-Scenes Look At Entertainment
- Media Literacy, Movies and Motivating Students
- Media Study: Studying Feature Films
- The Mega Movie Making Guide for Kids
- The Moviegoer’s Guide to Ethics
- Movie Clips (streaming clips of films online)
- Movie In The Making: A language arts activity
- Movie Making for Kids
- Movie Poster Analysis, webquest
- Movie sound effects
- Movies & The Media
- Movies As the Gateway to History
- Moving Images
- The “Grammar” of Film and Television
- Composition
- Let There Be Lights!
- Sound
- Special Effects
- Cutting and Editing
- A Classroom Approach to Exploring the Language of Moving Images in Film and Television
- Storyboard examples
- Moving Images In The Classroom (BFI)
- Moving Image Education (Scotland)
- Moving Image in the Primary Curriculum (UK)
- Moving Image Source (Musuem of the Moving Image)
- Narrative & Ideology in Film
- A Novel Look at Film: Of Mice and Men Viewing Guide
- One Film: Teacher Guide “Empire of the Sun” Theme and Scene Analysis Questions
- Page to Screen (Bravo)
- Paintings Behind The Films
- The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text & Readings
- Point of view in “Over The Hedge”
- Point of view in “To Kill A Mockingbird”
- Reading a film sequence
- Reading Film: Decoding the Codes
- Reading Films Critically (handout)
- Reading Films in the Classroom
- Reading Meaning in Media Texts: Codes
- Representation in Film (Lesson Bucket)
- Rule of Thirds
- Scanning the Movies (with John Pungente)
- Scene Analysis Framework (handout)
- Screenonline (bfi )
- ScreenSite
- Some suggestions on “how to read a film”
- Sound Effects – Record your own sound effects
- Stage to Screen (TCM) Teacher Guide
- Star Wars Myth; Marketing; Religion
- Strategies for teaching film as text
- Students Recall More Hollywood Than History
- Teacher’s Guide to Making Student Movies (Scholastic)
- Teaching About Film in the English Classroom
- Teaching Film As Communication
- Teaching Film Study and Literature to Film
- Teaching Tolkien Lord of the Rings: A Study in Film & Literature
- Teaching TV & Film
- Teaching For Visual Literacy: 50 Great Young Adult Films
- Teach With Movies
- Teaching Citizen Kane
- Teaching With Movies (AwesomeStories.com)
- Teaching With Movies: A Guide for Parents and Educators (PDF)
- Technical and Symbolic Codes: The Elements of Film
- Technical codes in non-fiction films
- Thinking About Film: cultural codes; technical codes
- Thinking About Films
- Tickets, please: plug in the DVD player—watching movies in class can improve kids’ reading and writing skills in some surprising ways
- Tools of Misc en scene
- Using film
- Using Film In the Classroom (Alberta, Canada)
- Visual Grammar in Film
- Visual Image Maker: A tool analyzing and creating visual texts
- Visual language of video and film
- Visual Literacy: Understanding Film Elements
- Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy: Writing About Film
- Why Film Matters Teaching Film in the age of YouTube and iMovie
- Why Teach Film (Film as text)
- Why Teach Film (blog)
- Writing About Film
- Writing about history using motion images
- Writing About Movies