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- Show Students Film Review Examples. To begin, I like to lead a brief whole-class discussion where we chat about the difference between getting a recommendation from a friend and reading a professional movie review.
- Know Your Audience. As we wrap up this lesson, I ask students to consider the audience of each review. For example, is the review aimed at children, adults, or even a teen magazine?
- Teach How to Watch the Film. The next step is to teach students how to watch a film with purpose, rather than simply for pleasure! In an ideal situation, I recommend watching a film twice.
- Provide Common Vocabulary. As part of a film study, it’s important for students to be able to speak the “language” of movie making. After viewing the movie, I like to take some time to outline some key terms to help students write their reviews.
- NUMBERED WEEK: My first column is WEEK. I used to try and use an exact calendar, but I’ve found that a simple weekly outline is much easier to manage at the year-long scope.
- UNIT EQ: The most important guiding light for each of my units is the Unit Essential Question. Placing this in primary location on the guide always helps me stay focused on the purpose — to explore this question using the skills and texts for the unit.
- FOCUS SKILLS/TARGETS/OBJECTIVES: Next, I list the focus skills of the unit. Note, I don’t list ALL of the skills students will learn and/or practice, just the focal points.
- CONCEPTUAL IDEAS: This might be a new column for some of you. This column is, for me, the next most important after EQs. Yes, I said it: ideas are more important to me than skills.
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- Introduction
- Step-by-step guide
- Getting started
- During the film
- Picture reviews
- Developing skills
- Create a word bank
- The ‘creative comparisons’ challenge
- Filming a review
- Recording a radio review show
- Member workbook
- Before you watch the film
- Colour
- After viewing questions
- Creating Efective Film Reviews – Secondary
- Key characters Key scenes Themes and issues Your emotions
- Creating Efective Film Reviews – Secondary
- What makes a good film review?
- Review two:
- Introduction
- Snappy synopsis
- Improving your review writing skills for GCSE English
- How should I structure my film review?
- What information should I include about the film?
- What language should I use?
- How do I speak to the target audience?
- Plan your shoot here:
- Creating Efective Film Reviews – Secondary
- My top tips for a radio film review:
Into Film Club members are encouraged to voice their opinions in discussion, create reviews and publish their responses on the Into Film Clubs website www.intofilm.org. This resource is designed to introduce club members to the art of reviewing and develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. By sharing their reviews online, students can de...
Summary: This section features a range of activities divided into two parts, ‘Getting started’ and ‘Developing skills’. Activities are supported by the Member workbook pack. You can work through these activities in order or pick those that best suit your group and your available time.
These introductory activities are divided into before, during and after viewing a film with your club.
Encourage active viewing wherever possible by engaging members with key themes and enabling them to make connections to their own experiences. This will help them to discuss the film more fully with their peers later on. The Film viewing mind map on page 4 of the Member workbook is designed to encourage active viewing by enabling members to record ...
Use the prompts on the Picture reviewing sheet on page 7 of the Member workbook to review using images only. Picture reviewing can be more accessible for some students, and can ofer scope for creativity for others. Encourage members to swap their pictures and see if they can decode the images and understand how their partner responded to the film. ...
A selection of activities to build on the introductory activities to develop members’ reviewing skills and their confidence in expressing and sharing opinions.
Explain the importance of using accurate vocabulary in a film review. Ask members to circle any words on page 8 of the Member workbook that reflect the way they felt about the film they have watched. Challenge members to create their own word bank, of five words or more, to summarise the way they feel about the film they have just watched. These wo...
Members can put their creative thinking skills to the test by completing the Creative comparisons challenge! on page 9 of the Member workbook. These can be shared in a number of ways, eg through a group discussion or even as an artistic response (such as creating a poster). Challenge more able members by asking them to come up with their own creati...
If cameras, tablets or smartphones are available, ask members to work in pairs and use the examples and top tips on slides 5-8 of the Creating Effective Film Reviews – Secondary presentation to help them record their reviews. There is also a planning sheet included on page 16 of the Member workbook. These can be saved and shared, revisited later an...
A fun alternative to filming reviews could be to record as audio files and then edit them into a school radio podcast. This will also help members to practise their oracy skills by creating and performing spoken reviews. Listen to film reviews on FunKids Radio, soundcloud.com/filmclubuk and use the sheet on page 18 of the Member workbook. To start ...
This is the Into Film guide to writing effective film reviews. By completing the activities in this workbook, you will begin to view, think and write about films with confidence and enthusiasm. Remember you can submit your reviews to the Into Film website for a chance to be selected as film review of the week. See, think, make. Imagine intofilm.o...
Take some time to answer these questions in the spaces provided. You will be discussing your ideas afterwards, so think carefully about your answers! Which two great films have you watched recently and why were they so good? What is your favourite genre of film (romance, horror etc) and why? Which genre does the film that you are going to watch bel...
Film viewing mind map Use this to keep track of how you felt when you were watching the film. Use single words or pictures that reflect your observations as a critical film reviewer!
Adverts for films sometimes use audience reactions and vox pop interviews (short interviews with people on radio or television programmes) to show how good a film is and encourage people to go and see it. This is because film promoters recognise that positive ‘word of mouth’ reviews are influential and play an important part in whether a film is a ...
Draw pictures The setting that show what you thought of the film you have just seen. Think of images that could represent any or all of the following:
Swap your picture reviews with a partner. Can you decode their review of the film by interpreting the pictures they have used? Challenge: Develop this into a photography project that reviews the film using photos you have taken yourself. Add captions that communicate the ideas reflected in your images. Display these visual reviews on the walls wher...
Creative comparisons challenge! One of the best ways to help someone understand something they haven’t experienced yet is by comparing it to something that they Can you complete the sentence for each of the comparisons below? If this film was a well-known person it would be... because... If this film was an ice cream flavour it would be... because....
Read the reviews below. Use your top tips for writing a good film review as a success criteria and give each review a WWW (what went well...) and an EBI (even better if...) Which do you think is best and why? Review one: This film is about two girls who are sisters. They have some troubles. This film was good because a snowman sang. I liked the bit...
In a kingdom far, far away, two young princesses WWW: who were once close now live a quiet and lonely life in their castle. But when elder sister Elsa is asked to take the throne, a secret is revealed – EBI: with serious consequences for the two sisters and for the whole kingdom. Frozen is a beautiful CGI animation. It features strong characters, ...
What kind of film is it? What is it setting out to achieve? Why might people be interested in this film?
Briefly describe what happens in the film. Remember: no spoilers!
Read these top tips from about what makes a great film review, from Carmen Gray. Carmen is Film Editor for Dazed & Confused Magazine and a freelance film critic for Sight & Sound and Total Film.
Introduction – a few sentences to grab the readers’ attention, get them interested, and make them want to read more Summary – what is the film about? Critique of the characters and the acting Style – Sound, colour, tone, pace and how these stylistic elements add to the atmosphere of the film Conclusion – sum up, taking into account those main po...
The most important word to remember when writing is “respect”. A review is not just an excuse to show how funny or devastating you can be. A film takes a great deal of efort to make. You owe it to both the filmmakers and your readers to be as constructive as possible, balancing your review with any positives and negatives you find in the film. Tr...
A review needs to inform, explain and engage. The most important thing is to convey the information about what the film is like that the reader will be wanting to know. If you write a beautifully lyrical, of-the-wall masterpiece of poetry, that’s all well and good (and you should move on to your first novel!), but if the reader finishes it knowing ...
One of the most important things to remember when writing a review is who you are writing for. Why are they reading the review, and what information do they need to know? If you imagine yourself talking to this person, it will help you speak in the right kind of voice for your reader, and add personality to your writing. Most people read reviews to...
Notes for my own radio film review Things I would like to say about the film: I should remember to... (eg talk clearly; not speak too quickly etc)
Notes for my own radio film review Things I would like to say about the film: I should remember to... (eg talk clearly; not speak too quickly etc)
Notes for my own radio film review Things I would like to say about the film: I should remember to... (eg talk clearly; not speak too quickly etc)
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Oct 17, 2020 · 14. 3. I have been teaching film studies courses at a private high school for five years now, and I have never, not once, screened Citizen Kane for my students. I have shown Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil before, but my students’ interest began to wane in the back half, once the sheen of that opening long take began to wear off.
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