Abstract
This case study describes the experience of 'Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse' and the Understanding Cinema project at an after-school film club at Granton Primary School in Edinburgh from 2016 to 2017. It does so from the perspective of the teachers, filmmaker and students involved and focuses in particular on the production of the students' film See You Tomorrow, about a young girl dealing with racist bullies. Exploring the processes undertaken as part of the project and the students' responses to them, this study ultimately advocates for the benefits of using both practical and theoretical approaches to film in primary classrooms.
Highlights
Made as part of the Centre for the Moving Image’s Understanding Cinema project, See You Tomorrow is a short film made by a group of five Primary 6 (P6) and Primary 7 (P7) children from Granton Primary School in Edinburgh
She describes how she has joined the film club at her new high school, where she is trying her hand at directing and camera-operating. She is trying to persuade Maggie to join too, Maggie – already somewhat beleaguered by the amount of work expected of her at the new school – seems like she will take some convincing. Given their time working with the Understanding Cinema project, both Aoife and Avril are convinced about the merits of using film in the classroom
Before starting the film club, Avril felt Understanding Cinema would provide a good opportunity to develop skills that were in some way separate to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence
Summary
Made as part of the Centre for the Moving Image’s Understanding Cinema project (the Scottish incarnation of the Cinémathèque française’s ‘Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse’ project), See You Tomorrow is a short film made by a group of five Primary 6 (P6) (ages 9–10) and Primary 7 (P7) (ages 10–11) children from Granton Primary School in Edinburgh. We offer a short case study of both the film and the project in which it was made, from the perspective of the two classroom teachers (Aoife Donnelly and Avril Whelan) who ran the project, the film-maker assigned to work with the group (Jamie Chambers) and some of the key students involved in making the film (Khadija, Maggie and Arwyn). We endeavour to place the film within the wider context of using film in primary classrooms in Scotland. The film ECOSSE – See You Tomorrow can be watched on the Vimeo website: https://vimeo.com/221750662 (accessed 22 February 2018)
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