Category Archives: Le méteo 2015 – 2016

Play, Vittoria PS

Katy Jones at Vittoria Primary has given us permission to share some of her pupils’ play exercises – a mixture of Lumiere Minutes Exercise 1, and Exercise 2, when two children are sent out of class and have to improvise … Continue reading

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2016/17: Le Jeu/ Play

This year’s theme examines the many dimensions of Play in cinema.  Alain Bergala, programme advisor, says cinema is essentially a playful mode, and he set out a set of characteristics of ‘play in cinema’ at the launch training event in … Continue reading

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Guadeloupe Meteo

The Lycee Leborgne, in Guadeloupe, made this contribution to Meteo.  The Mancenillier tree – Manchineel in the Caribbean – is known as the ‘little apple of death’, and the film-makers here riff on the theme of forbidden fruit.  The brief … Continue reading

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Meteo Montage

This summer’s montage of exercises from Paris ran to around 16 minutes, cut down here to 6.  They run sequentially through the seasons, and continents..

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Legsby final film

At last, some of the final films created by Lincolnshire Primary Schools on the ‘meteo’ theme, 2016. The brief was to create a story revolving around a shelter, bringing two characters together.  Legsby spent time in the woods building their … Continue reading

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Cent Ans de Jeunesse website goes live

After quite a gestation, the Cinematheque’s composite website has gone live. French energy group EDF gave the Cinematheque funding a couple of years ago, to support the desire to compile some of the best materials, exercise, and student work from … Continue reading

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Location Scouting on the South Bank

London Nautical School’s after-school film club are scouting locations for the shelter in their final film essai.  The brief requires each film to design its story around a shelter in which two or more characters have an encounter.  South Bank’s … Continue reading

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Tower Hamlets story time

The Tower Hamlets group meeting at Queen Mary last night began planning their film essai.  Students from St Paul’s Way, Morpeth, and Mulberry School sat alongside Nuri and Chloe, Film Studies undergrads at QM, with tutor Viki Walden.  Viki gave … Continue reading

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Legsby Exercise 3

Exercise 3 of Le Meteo asks for a repeated dramatic situation, shot twice, each time exactly the same, but with different weather.  Legsby primary conceived this very simple set up, reminiscent of Chaplinesque silent slapstick.  The weather conditions were enhanced … Continue reading

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Lincolnshire, Exercise 2

Our 10 Lincolnshire primary partners came to BFI last week to exchange ‘meteo work’: Exercise 2, on ‘sensations’ of weather, and Exercise 3 – a dramatic situation, repeated in different weather conditions. Gainsborough Parish Church Primary put together this montage … Continue reading

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