Double Take: Short Films for 11-16 Year-olds

by English & Media Centre and Jenny Grahame

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Play Movie - classroom materials guide pupils through analysing the films and their meanings for audiences, highlighting the ways themes, ideas and issues are constructed and represented through media language and filmic techniques. Behind the Scenes - investigates the production processes through video interviews with the films' directors and access to treatments, scripts, storyboards, budgets and marketing proposals. Issues - carefully selected non-fiction articles introduce the issues explored through the films in the context of role-play, simulation and discussion: refugees and immigration; consumer culture; gun violence. Extras - more contemporary short films, including some outstanding student work - ideal models for pupils engaged in practical work and genre study. With its focus on the analysis of film in the context of written and practical creative work, discussion and exploration of difficult issues, Double Take is a truly cross-curricular resource which will be equally useful for students of Media at KS4 and beyond. Films Sold - 7 minutes: a modern fairytale for the 21st century. Double Take - 4 minutes: a thriller with a sting in the tail.
Dipper - 10 minutes: similar theme, different treatment. For the Love of - 4 minutes: a poignant letter home from father to son. After Refuge - 4 minutes: the world of a teenage refugee. Gravity - 6 minutes: the chilling consequences of playing with gun. Veronique - 6 minutes: first love - or overactive imagination? A container - 5 minutes: a strange skip offers a new take on the idea of recycling. Hard Little Man - 6 minutes: the solitary world of an excluded child. Extras Refugee Voices
  • ISBN10 0907016987
  • ISBN13 9780907016984
  • Publish Date 1 April 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 July 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint English & Media Centre
  • Pages 164
  • Language English