Presentation given to BEd 3 class at Moray House about MIE. 01.11.12

1. Moving Image Education
AtholeMcLauchlan
Bearsden Primary School

2. Who am I?
• Primary teacher for 10 years
• Former projectionist at Cameo Cinema
• Lead Practitioner with Creative Scotland
(formerly Scottish Screen)
• ET / WALL-E / JUNGLE BOOK / GOONIES /
STAR WARS / PONYO
• My nose wiggles when I talk…

3. What is MIE?
• 21st Century literacy skills to interpret and use moving
image texts
3 strands
• EXPLORE
• ANALYSE
• CREATE
• Interdisciplinary learning – MIE is the glue which binds the
subjects together
• Cooperative learning
• New devices blurring the gap between old and new
literacy skills? Game, film or book? Or something else?

4. CfE

5. “Drama is life with the dull bits
cut out.”
Alfred Hitchcock

6. http://www.thetrailermash.com/
shining-romantic-comedy/
The Shining Trailer (mash up)

7. EXPLORE
What was different?
Anything puzzling?
Anything surprising?
How did the sound
and dialogue create
atmosphere?

8. EXPLORE
www.scotlandonscreen.org.uk
Scottish archive films

9. Cliff In Scotland
Scotland On Screen

10. No Easy Way 2(Allan Wells)
Scotland On Screen

11. No Easy Way 1(Allan Wells)
Scotland On Screen

12. Jogging in the Seventies
Scotland On Screen

13. Analyse
3Ss and 3 Cs
Sound Setting Storyboard
Character Camera Colour

17. Analyse
PPSS grid from ‘Tell Me’ by Aiden Chambers
Puzzles
Patterns
Surprises
Similarities

19. Analyse: 10 Film Strategies
1. Making Predictions 6. Making Comparisons
2. Sound and Image (similarities)
3. Freeze Frame 7. Looking for Patterns
4. Shots in Sequence 8. Generic Translation
(camera shots / 9. Summarising
storyboard) 10. Evaluating (film
5. Asking Questions review and reflection)
(Bloom’s Taxonomy)
NO WRONG ANSWERS!

20. EXPLORE
www.screeningshorts.org.uk
Short films for classroom use

21. Baboon On The Moon tutorial
Short film from Screening Shorts website

22. Laughing Moon Tutorial
Short film from Screening Shorts website

23. The Lucky Dip tutorial
Short film from Screening Shorts website

24. CREATE: Inspiring writing
• Scripts • Storyboards / Comic
• Poems / songs • Advertising – posters
• Newspaper / blog / • Missing scenes
reports / interviews • Lists
• Short stories • Diary / letters
• Prequels / sequels • Website creation
• What happened next –
writer’s craft

32. Point of View shots and writing

33. Lighthouse Keeper film
Link to diary entry based on the clip

34. Night Train film
Using Scotland On Screen archive footage

35. Tay Bridge Disaster film
Using Scotland On Screen archive footage

36. CREATE: Guerilla filmmaking

37. CREATE: No Resources
• Drama
• Puppet shows
• Act or present in front of the screen
• Create sound effects, music, dialogue
www.arkive.org (nature films)
www.scotlandonscreen.org (archive film)

38. CREATE: Digital Storytelling
• Photos (camera and internet)
• PowerPoint slides (export as jpegs)
• Artwork (animatic)
Software
• Apple iMovie - editing
• Windows Moviemaker - editing
• Audio Network – copyright free soundtrack and
effects (Glow – National Site – External
Reources)

39. Climate Change film
Using exported PPT slides and Audio Network sound

40. Willie Wastle
Animatic film inspired by Robert Burns

41. CREATE: Video Camera
• Fixed Camera
• Storyboarded Film (variety of camera shots)
• Documentary
• Short drama
• Quiz Show (eg. Question of Sport)
• Music Video
• Talent Show
• Advert
• Demonstration (science)

42. Filmmaking Process
Link to example of class process
• Inspiration and motivation (topic, Enterprise,
competition)
• Brainstorming ideas (audience / purpose)
• Presenting ideas (teacher as Producer)
• Groups make individual films (shared theme)
• Groups responsible for one part of the jigsaw of
a whole class film
• Assign roles and skills but fluid structure (pupils
need to explore and play different roles)
• Process is more important than the outcome!

43. Post Filmmaking
• Editing
• Advertising / merchandise
• Enterprise event – showcasing film
• DVDs

44. Filmmaking Benefits (end credits!)
• Skills based learning
• Cooperative learning
• Active learning
• Enterprise
• CfE four capacities
• Motivating / challenging and memorable

45. Interdisciplinary Learning: Japan
Links showing how MIE was used to link various
curriculum areas on the theme of Japan.
• Exploring and analysing film texts and inspiring
writing
• Creating animations
• Creating Japanese inspired video games and
presentations
• Creating a Japan website showcasing films and
classwork

46. WWII Documentary Clip
Fixed camera

47. The Singing Street clip
Scotland On Screen archive

48. We Can Play
Storyboarded film – inspired by Singing Street

49. Sgt. Ross
Storyboarded film and original script

50. CREATE: Animation
• Primary Teacher’s dream!
• Flip book animation (postit notes)
• Pixilation
• Stop motion 2D (flat background and
characters) - found objects, shapes, leaves
• Stop motion 3D - plasticene, lego, playmobil

51. 3D Stop Motion Animation

52. 2D Stop Motion Animation

53. Postit note animation
2D stop motion

54. Origami animation
Using the pixilation technique

55. Tangram animation
2D stop motion

56. Emigration animation
2D stop motion and found footage

57. Circus animation
2D stop motion and song

58. The Katzis animation
3D stop motion

59. Mission To Mars animation
3D stop motion and live action

60. Steven Spielberg once said he ‘dreamed for a living.’
I like that. Dreams and imagination can be
powerful classroom tools if used wisely.

61. EXPLORE: Resources
• www.scotlandonscreen.org.uk (Glow)
• www.screeningshorts.org.uk (Glow)
• www.glowscience.org.uk (Glow)
• www.languagesonscreen.org.uk (Glow)
• www.movingimageeducation.org/resources/films (short films)
• www.arkive.org (nature)
• www.britishpathe.com (archive film – only downloadable in schools)
• www.archive.org/details/prelinger (archive film)
• www.brickfilms.com(Lego animation)
• www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips (class clips)
• www.screenonline.org.uk (BFI clips – only accessed in schools)
• www.inanimatealice.com (sophisticated ebook)
• Vimeo and YouTube

62. ANALYSE: Resources
• www.movingimageeducation.org
• www.movingimageeducation.org/resources/mie-
in-practice/teachers-stories (Ten schools share
good practice in the teaching of MIE)
• www.screeningshorts.org.uk
• www.cbbfc.co.uk
• http://literacyadviser.wordpress.com (Bill Boyd)
• http://old.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/lookagai
n (READ THIS!!!)
• www.filmeducation.org

63. CREATE: Resources
Software Hardware
• PowerPoint • Digital Blue cameras
• ComicLife • Video camera
• I Can Animate • Flip camera
• CrazyTalk • Smart phone
• iMovie • Digital camera
• Windows Moviemaker • HD Web camera
• Audio Network (copyright • Lots of PVA glue and paint
free music on Glow) • Children
• Dreams
• Imagination

64. A link to a year of teaching MIE
A link to my Vimeo class films
Contact: athole@gmail.com
Questions?