Marine movies

This pack was designed to be used with GCSE and / or post-16 students in a variety of subject and specification contexts. While it assumes some access to (and proficiency with) both still and video shooting and editing facilities, and hence might fit into any of the available Media Studies specifications at GCSE / AS level, it could also be used within the context of specifications in Geography, History, Photography or Citizenship. While this material is based on the Brighton / Hove seafront, it could be adapted to any other coastal area which has been historically documented in photographs and film.

The aim of the project is to involve groups of GCSE / post-16 students in some or all of the following activities:

• researching the ways in which coastal regions have been documented in photography and film over the past 100+ years
• planning, scripting and storyboarding short video sequences and / or image + text displays
• and / or web pages which could document and reflect on differences between "then" and "now"
• scouting coastal locations which appear in historic images (still and / or moving)
• shooting new images (still and / or moving) of the coastal environment
• compiling and editing this new footage together with historic images to form finished works with a high degree of artistry, insight and "polish"

The full pack can be obtained by emailing us - we'll send you a PDF.

Here's some footage from the first school, Beacon Community College, W.Sussex, that tried out these techniques:

This is what they achieved - can you do better? Let us know.

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