Film Study - Basic Shot/Scene Analysis Templates and Examples
Study a film as literature with these templates to help students analyse the use of a technique in a shot or scene from your class movie.
Note well: This resource is also available in our discounted bundle here!
Templates 1 and 2:
Use the examples to guide students through completing one of two blank template options to extend their thinking around:
- How another technique works with the one they're focusing on.
- The effects of the technique as it's used in the shot/scene.
- Wider world suggestions.
- Director's purpose.
Finally, students use the notes from their template to write a well-developed paragraph.
Template 3:
- Students/you place a shot (which may also represent a short scene) in the middle of a template. Students then complete as many of the surrounding boxes as they can to annotate the shot/scene. Each box is headed with a different film technique - eg: Shot sizes, camera angles, colour, sound, editing...
- Finally, students use the notes from their template to write a well-developed paragraph.
This resource includes:
⭐ One student booklet - although YOU can pick which template you want students to use.
⭐ A short teacher guide.
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ Examples to help.
❤️ Templates to scaffold and extend thinking.
❤️ Two template options - one using the 'human behaviour' and 'wider world' method, the other using the FETU acronym to extend thinking in a similar manner. You/your students choose which you'll use.
❤️ Room to write a paragraph (or use student's own paper).
❤️ For you: complete editability AND a short teacher guide.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅ Teaching film - ULTIMATE Teacher Guide
✅ Movie Manipulation - a more extensive task workbook on scene analysis.
✅ Teaching a Text (incl film)
✅ Film studies: Next Goal Wins, Uproar and Blood Diamond
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Sharing/Copying this Resource
Feel free to purchase just one for your department - no need for a copy for each teacher. However:
- Please do NOT share with the school down the road.
- Please do NOT take it with you to a new school.
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Reviews
You know that feeling when you see another resource that could lessen the burden of wheel creation for the busy members of your department? Having another way of approaching a subject that can be multi level and can support staff who may not have taught either the subject or the year level is fantastic. We don't necessarily use the booklet fully but as a reference, taking bits and pieces and inspiring those 'I could do this' moments in unit planning is perfect.