Discover how to get a class of 30 to learn the skills of building a thrilling story in pictures. Emma Bull is an English and Media Teacher at Parkside School, a Media Arts College in Cambridge. Follow her Year 8 class over the course of a day as they analyse, plan, shoot and edit using the video camera, short, tense sequences based on hospital dramas such as Casualty. Emma uses a camera fed through an interactive whiteboard to model the rigorous planning required by editing in camera, and then small groups of children work together in class and on location around the school to create some interesting short films. Advanced skills teacher James Durran discusses how practical media production can motivate students, support moving image work at KS3, and develop transferable skills of analysis and collaboration.

Video Series: KS3-4 English and Media
Release Date 2005