Category Archives: cent ans de jeunesse

LIFT films with LNS

Saskia at London Film School drew our attention to Marc Isaacs’ 30 minute documentary ‘Lift’, which combines many of the techniques we are supposed to look at this year. The film is notionally observational – though the filmmaker is so … Continue reading

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Highfield’s First Session

HIghfield Juniors in Bromley are along for their second year of CCAJ; this year, they’ll be going to Paris!  Saskia van Roomen is running the programme as part of their Into Film club – she’s an Into Film Ambassador.  She … Continue reading

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Sensory Cinema: PPT and SoW

Here are the launch powerpoint, and the sample plan for this year’s theme, ‘Sensory Cinema’.  The link for the recommended clips is on the last slide of the PPT, and the opening page of the SoW. Download the docs from … Continue reading

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Launch PPT for CPD event on ‘La Situation’

Here’s the PPT launching ‘la Situation’ at CPD events in London (31st October) and Lincoln (2nd November).  Also can be found on Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/markreid1895/ccaj-la-situation

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2018/19 edition: ‘la Situation’

In 2018/19, the 25th edition of le Cinema cent ans de jeunesse, we are looking at ‘la Situation’: the range of dramatic situations that recur in films, how they are shot and edited, and how they position the spectator.  At … Continue reading

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Final films for 2017/18 Places and Stories

Belated link here for final films made by children on Places and Stories, the 2017/18 edition of Cinema Cent Ans de Jeunesse. Ten of the films can be found here, after the links to Rebecca etc..https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIsXkcf1dA96qJPssxEbZwlVU3EYecuvt and a couple are … Continue reading

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2017/18 Theme: ‘Places and Stories’

This year’s theme is ‘Les lieux et les histoires’: Places and Stories. The Cinematheque team are keen to emphasise that we’re talking about real places, not generic spaces.  There are two pieces of (optional) reading: some pages from Michel Foucault’s … Continue reading

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Little film about CCAJ..

The multi talented Dr. Carol-Mei Barker, in her role as co-ordination of the Childhood Cinema Nation network, made this short interview with me about CCAJ, and edited it to make some kind of sense. https://vimeo.com/200684886/93cd5b84ed

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Sample Exercises for Play

At our annual introductory training session last week, groups of 3 or 4 from our cohort of 15 teachers tried out exercises 1, 2, and 3 for the ‘Play’ theme.  All of the pieces were planned and shot in 15 … Continue reading

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College Barbara

College – middle school to us in the UK – Barbara, is in St Denis, north of Paris.  Here are two sets of Meteo clips: Exercise 2 ‘Sensations’ of weather – some fixed Lumiere-style shots out of upper floor windows … Continue reading

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