A European Framework for Film Education
Mark Reid, Head of Education, BFI
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Screening Literacy: Recommendation 1
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draft a model of film education for Europe, including
appreciation of film as an art form, critical understanding, access
to national heritage, world cinema and popular film, and creative
film-making skills
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European Framework: Why?
• A common language for film education
• Overarching outcomes for diverse programmes
and settings
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Guidance for new programme designers
• Enabling future co-operation around common goals
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European Framework: Proposal
• An ‘experiences and outcomes’ Framework
• Developed by representative experts
• ‘particularly useful for countries where film
education is currently underdeveloped’
• Designing new projects from 2015 onwards
• Launched June 2015
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European Framework: Partners
A Bao a Qu
Austrian
FilmMuseum
Algarve University
Creative Scotland
Irish Film Institute
Vision Kino
Meno Avilys
Kinodvor
Cinémathèque Francaise
Polish Film Institute
Danish Film Institute
MPAA Hungary
CYMM Cyprus
Roma Tre University
Karpos Greece
ActivWatch Romania
Swedish Film Institute
BFI
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‘Four Capacities’
Scottish Curriculum for Excellence
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Successful learners
Confident individuals
Responsible citizens
Effective contributors
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Creative, Critical, Cultural: the three Cs
Creative
critical
Cultural
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Creative, Critical, Cultural: the three Cs
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First thoughts, 10 themes: Film and..
Moral values
Re-presentation of reality
Cultural heritage
Canons
The audience’s role
Film institutions
Cultural difference
Intertextuality
as ‘cultural interface’
Technology and technological
change
……and
Experiences,
Knowledge,
Skills
Understanding
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First thoughts, 10 themes: Film and..
Moral values
Re-presentation of reality
YP
technological change
Film institutions
Outcomes Template
Identify and express the values, moral challenges, human conflicts within a film.
Experiences
Knowledge
Skills
Understanding
Outcomes
CRITICAL
CREATIVE
CULTURAL
CRITICAL
CREATIVE
CULTURAL
CRITICAL
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CULTURAL
CRITICAL
CREATIVE
CULTURAL
SUMMATIVE
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Theme 1: Film and Moral Values
Identify and express the values, moral challenges, human conflicts
within a film.
Experiences
Take part in a group discussion on moral/ethical questions raised
by a film
Recognize good or bad choices represented in the actions of
characters
Learners experience films made in different moral environments
that are informed by different sets of values
Learners create films that express moral dilemmas and conflicts,
and which respond to moral challenges presented by other films
Knowledge
To know the limitations of stereotypes
To know about different cultural taboos
Skills
To identify and question, and reflect on and analyse moral
dilemmas and issues
To be able to speak, write, make film responses to moral
questions raised in a particular film
Understanding How films construct moral positions, characters and situations
through visual and other codes
How different cultures deal with moral issues in different ways
To understand the (moral) context in which the film is made and
also the context in which the audience views the film
Understand how to deploy the creative resources of film in ways
that open up dialogue, and present ambiguity
Learners understand their own work in its relationship to their
understanding of themselves, their immediate context and the
wider world.
Outcomes
Learners become confident in engaging with moral challenges and
differences, as represented in and through film
Learners become confident in choosing adventurously, and moving
beyond their film ‘comfort zone’.
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Next steps
Framework refinement: Prague Seminar January 2015
National consultations: Spring 2015
Publication and launch June 2015
Join the conversation:
http://filmliteracyadvisorygroup.wordpress.com
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