Abstract
This article explores animation as a popular mode of moving image education in the wider field of Scottish film education, through a discussion with film education practitioner Jonathan Charles. It reflects on Jonathan’s pedagogic approach to film education, the way in which it is shaped and aligned with changing institutional and funding imperatives, and the affordances of animation, through a detailed look at a film-making project with a primary school in West Lothian, Scotland. It reflects upon the challenge to maintain in-depth film experiences for young people, with training and working with teachers to allow film experiences to be scalable and multiply to reach a wider range of young people. The article also discusses the drive to give young people agency throughout the film-making process, and how film education practitioners and teachers can best facilitate that.
Highlights
With the lowering costs and technical developments of digital technologies in the 1990s, animation has become an increasingly viable form through which to explore practical film-making in schools
Free of many of the issues and constraints facing live action film-making with young people in school settings, animation offers the opportunity to introduce young people to basic elements of screen practice – often in an abstract, imaginative and creatively liberating manner
While the majority of this article is written in the collective voice, in places we have chosen to use direct quotations in order to allow Jonathan’s voice to speak more directly of his experiences working with animation in the classroom
Summary
How to cite this article Munro, R. and Charles, J. (2021) ‘Exploring the place of animation and the role of the classroom-based film-maker within a wider field of Scottish moving image education’. Submission date: 21 September 2020 Acceptance date: 13 November 2020 Publication date: 10 June 2021
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