Category Archives: UK partners

LIFT films with LNS

Posted on March 12, 2024 by markreid1895

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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Frame within a frame by LNS

Posted on February 9, 2023 by markreid1895

For our third week with London Nautical, we used Saskia van Roomen’s ‘frame within a frame’ activity. Starting with discussion of Wes Anderson’s compositional style – unique, like his handwriting, he says – we looked at a neat little three-minute … Continue reading →

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Welcome back London Nautical

Posted on January 24, 2023 by markreid1895

After 6 or 7 years away, London Nautical, the nearest secondary school to BFI Southbank, have decided to let us host their film club. Miss Jewitt and Miss Schuil brought 11 boys tonight, and we launched Centred/ Decentred by making … Continue reading →

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Final films: ‘situation’

Posted on September 29, 2019 by markreid1895

The brief for the final film of 2018/19 was to: Make a film where the establishing incident affects how the characters relate to each other.  The situation will ‘flip’ during the course of the film, which will mean that the … Continue reading →

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Mid-term meeting in London

Posted on March 20, 2019 by markreid1895

We had a very productive reflective meeting today at BFI for schools from Lincolnshire/ Nottingham and London.  Legsby, North Summercotes, Brierley Forest, St. Vincent’s, Vittoria, Tyssen, and Highfield Junior School in Bromley.  We looked at Exercises 2 and 3, and … Continue reading →

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Launch PPT for CPD event on ‘La Situation’

Posted on October 31, 2018 by markreid1895

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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Compilation of Edinburgh Exercises

Posted on March 16, 2018 by markreid1895

Francois at the Cinematheque has put together this 20 compilation of extracts from the various Exercises screened at the midterm plenary at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh on 17th Feb.

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Launch of Places and Stories in Lincoln

Posted on November 5, 2017 by markreid1895

We launched this year’s Lincolnshire edition of Cinema cent ans de jeunesse at Fosse Way Academy in Lincoln, on 1st November.  Below are the PPT we followed, and the sample SoW for the after-school version of the project. https://www.slideshare.net/secret/6EaZscxcl8XYan

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Exercise 3

Posted on February 26, 2017 by markreid1895

And finally, two examples of Exercise 3, from Lithuania and Legsby, Lincs, both featuring roundabouts, but different weathers.  Legsby had watched clips on the recommended list from Les 400 Coups, and The Little Fugitive – especially the sequence on the … Continue reading →

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St Margaret’s Withern Wink Murder

Posted on February 26, 2017 by markreid1895

Exercise 1 from St. Margaret’s deserves a post of its own.  Headteacher James Siddle has been in the programme for a few years.  For Exercise 1 though, he hd to leave the group to go to a meeting, and left … Continue reading →

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