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Filming Shakespeare: Filming Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

DVD and CD-ROM £53.75 (incl P&P)
Suitable for: KS3 and KS4 (11-16)
Subject area: English and Drama

The FILMING SHAKESPEARE resource series has been developed to help teachers make Shakespeare engaging and accessible for all learners. With current exam board and National Curriculum requirements in mind, the resources incorporate an exploration of renowned film interpretations into a study of the original texts to help students “develop their interpretive and analytical skills” (QCDA KS4 requirement).

ROMEO AND JULIET is a two-disc resource pack designed to offer students a historical perspective on filmmakers’ interpretations of this tragic love story. The pack contains a DVD of carefully selected clips accompanied by a CD-ROM featuring teachers’ notes, context sheets, activity sheets and film stills for analysis. Extracts on DVD are taken from film versions of the play dating from 1905 (Vitagraph), 1936 (Cukor), 1954 (Castellani) and 1968 (Zeffirelli) with additional online study materials guiding students towards a critical viewing of Baz Lurhmann’s1996 film version.

Price includes full site license.

Filming Shakespeare site

Picturacy

Interactive DVD-ROM £53.75 (incl. P&P)
Suitable for: KS2
Subject area: Literacy

Picturacy ® is Film Education’s series of interactive resources for film and visual literacy in primary schools. Designed with interactive whiteboards in mind and multiple computers across a school network, without any extra charge for a site license.

The resources feature a range of clips from popular children’s films. The easy-to-use tools allow teachers and pupils to interactively analyse the moving image and combine images, music and text to create multimedia texts.

The accompanying teachers’ notes link directly to the Primary Framework for Literacy. As well as helping to raise standards in reading and writing, Picturacy ® provides opportunities for cross-curricular links including ICT, Music and Art.

BRAND NEW: Film Industry Pack

Interactive DVD ROM and Documentary Programmes £43.74 (incl. P&P)
Suitable for: KS4, A-Level, FE and 14-19 Creative & Media Diploma
Subject Area: Film and Media Studies, Business and ICT

The Film Industry pack is an exciting new educational resource that helps Film and Media teachers demystify the film industry. By bringing abstract industry concepts to life, these resources help to make the film industry more accessible for teachers whilst interactive and enjoyable for students. The pack contains over two hours of exclusive documentary footage with some of the world’s leading film professionals alongside an easy-to-use extensive teaching disc.

BBFC Resource Pack

DVD & Interactive DVD-Rom, £53.74 (incl. P&P)
Suitable for: Film and Media Studies at KS4, A Level and FE

Behind the Scenes at the BBFC is an exciting new educational resource pack that helps students of Film and Media understand the processes of film classification. By exploring issues that affect classification for the release of films in the cinema, for home entertainment and in video games, the pack helps to make the work of the BBFC more accessible for teachers and students.

The resource provides a wide range of opportunities to explore the issues tackled by the BBFC when classifying films. Issues, including Violence, Sexual References, Language, Horror and Drugs are considered in relation to specific film texts and more generally. The resource helps to integrate the work of the BBFC into the different curriculum areas and students can also take on the role of an examiner as they classify their own clips and video games.